Media Network Vintage Vault 2018-2019

Updated description; December 2019. This early edition of Media Network starts with the news that a postal strike in the Netherlands is delaying listener mail. We carried an interview with Owen Garriott, the first amateur radio operator in space.  While attending the World Telecom Expo in 1983, Jonathan Marks walked down the hill to the Palais de Nations, the UN HQ in Geneva. The goal was to solve the mystery of SSB transmissions in Russian on 14500 kHz USB emanating from the gardens of the building. We spoke with Anthony Kernow of the UN to find out what goes on "radiowise" in the building. This edition also includes an interview with a former producer and translator in the English section of Radio Netherlands, the American Robert Haslach. In 1983 he published his account of Dutch World Broadcasting (still available via Amazon) which traces the early years of PCJJ and PCLL with transmitters in Eindhoven and Huizen. His book is quite critical of one of the early announcers/hosts on the radio station, Eddy Sta