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again were in telephonic connection with our radio studio in
England on Tuesday. The broadcast ship was now putting out
20,000-watts, and coming in strong and clear.
We had waited so many years for this, it was a very tense and
exciting ten minutes. Finally, it was one minute to seven in
England. Then thirty seconds.
Would we be on this time? Ten seconds. Five seconds. The
music stopped. The announcer's voice came firm and clear: "This
is RADIO LONDON. The time, 7 o'clock."
Then came the voice of our own announcer, Art Gilmore:
"The WORLD TOMORROW! Ambassador College presents Herbert W.
Armstrong......."But we didn't hear the rest of it -- the
spontaneous SHOUT of those in our studio was too loud -- and over
the telephone came the roar that went up from those listening in
over there!
The program had now actually started from this ship within the
Thames Estuary! We were told that the engineers on the ship had
not wanted to chance another blow-out, putting the station off the
air again, so this first program had gone out on 20,000 watts. But
we understand they are up to the full 50,000 watts now. And as I
now write, Monday, January 18, it is now 25 minutes to eleven --
which means 25 to 7 in England, and the third program will be on
the air in a matter of minutes. By March 8, The WORLD TOMORROW is
scheduled to be going out over all Britain with the full 50,000-
watt signal, EVERY NIGHT at 7!
Co-Workers, I wonder if you can realize fully what this means?
Over in England, the population is so condensed that ONE
50,000-watt station, inside the mouth of the Thames Estuary
(virtually within England), is heard clearly over an area populated
by 37 million! And at this time of year, it can be heard clearly
over the entire British Isles -- where 53 million people live. But
that is not all! We have received letters from Germany that this
Radio LONDON is being heard even over there. It is a CLEAR
CHANNEL, non-directional signal.
But here are additional vital facts: A 50,000-watt station in
New York or Chicago will put out the same power, but will reach
only a fraction as many people. In the United States there are
hundreds of stations on the air. All these many other stations set
up interference -- prevent a station from reaching out as far. And
no similar area in America contains so many people. Over there, we
have to compete only with the two BBC wave-lengths -- the "Home"
service, and the "Light" service Radio London is broadcasting on a
dial-spot midway between those two, so that people tuning from one
BBC program to the other are bound to be stopped. The two Radio
Carolines, and Radio Luxembourg, are broadcasting in the 1400 to
1500 kilocycles -- near one end of the dial, while Radio LONDON is
right in the middle of the entire dial.
These so-called "Pirate" ship commercial broadcasting