Red Sands Radio 390
Senior Engineer Lawrence Bean shares photographs uncovered from his personal collection
Approaching Red Sands Forts from the South West (1964)
Radio K.I.N.G photograph of the Red Sands Forts from West (1965)
Gun Tower 3 and Control Tower from Bofors Tower (1965)
Red Sands South Buoy (1965)
Bofors
Tower |
Lawrence Bean on Crane Hoist |
Above two photographs from 29th December 1965
Paul Beresford, David Sinclair, Jonathan Hall, Librarian Peter Berkley & Chef Geoff Wells
Congregate for the Tender on the South Quay of Whitstable Harbour
Christopher Clark with Edward Cole
Engineer
Alan Cambridge |
Christopher Clark |
Chief
Engineer Lawrence Bean |
Sheldon Jay |
On the Radio 390 Tender F19 'Mullard' owned by Vic Davis and crewed by Brian Tyrrell
Overview of the Red Sands Forts showing the 150' Antenna
Graham Gill and Roger Scott
David Sinclair in Studio 1
Custom 5 channel mixer by Sandgate, Folkestone based Public Address Company, Lee & Doughty
Commissioned by Radio 390 Director Maurice Gething by Guildhall Cameras/Tape Recorders. Spotmaster Cartridge Players, further left out of view Ferrograph Series 3 Tape Recorder with another to the right, the later favoured for playout
David is holding slip mat on one of the pair of Garrard 301's with Xylophone for manually striking station signal tone right
The studio equipment was stripped over a period of two week and taken to Folkestone, the Fi-Cord Calrec Condenser Microphone went to Chris Ashman's, Astra Studios
The mixer, a pair of Garrard 301's and Ferrographs went to the Grand Hotel (Hotel Burstin) used in the basement ballroom disco
RCA
BTA J10 Transmitter |
Siemans FM Transmitter |
The RCA unit went to Radio North Sea International but was thrown over board when they purchased a pair of Continental Transmitters from Radio Veronica
The Siemans FM Transmitter had come from the Scandinavian station Radio Mercur's Ship the 'Lucky Star' but was never used
Gun Tower 2 with its 150' antenna
Radio 390 Re-union (Summer 1968)
Back: Lawrence Bean, Edward Cole, Secretary (Queens House), David Sinclair, Roger Scott, Maureen & Dougie Seymore, John (Ray) Glendenning & Stephen Muir-Field a transmitter engineer who didn't stay long at Radio 390
Front: Secretary (Queens House), Jonathan & Jenny Hall, Christopher Clark