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The story of Free radio part III
RIGHT-WING RADIO
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In autumn 1984 an 18-years-old boy
founded a free radio station in Jyvas-
kyla city, Finland. The boy was to be
known as DJ Tex Willer and the station
went on nameless until February 1985.
During the winter 1984-85 Tex talked
with his friends about free radio and
managed to find six boys to operate the
station with. In early 1985 the local
radio licence of Jyvaskyla was given to
a socialdemocratic newspaper company
and the RWR-boys were afraid that the
station would become some kind of a
left- wing operation.RWR-boys wanted to
attack those left-wingers and named
their own station RIGHT-WING Radio.That
was done, although RWR never meant and
never did speak politics in the radio.
Just sex'n'dugs'n'rock'n'roll...
RWR started building their own trans-
mitters and studio equipment in spring
1985. A four-channel mixer was soon
built and a 25 watt FM-transmitter a
little bit later. The first official
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transmission was on air June 10th 1985
in the frequency 91,2 MHz.
Soon after that RWR started getting a
lot of trouble. The transmitter blew
twice, two boys went to the army and
other two jumped off because they were
too scared about the police and their
parents("What would happen if my mother
were to know???"). That's why RWR was
pretty silent until the autumn 1986,
and just a few test transmissions were
transmitted.
In autumn 1986 DJ Tex Willer and
Simon 'Iceman' Heel decided to start
making noise about the need for free
radio. In August 1986 lots of press
releases were sent around and regular
transmissions were started with the 25
watt FM transmitter. The results were
quite cool and the local newspapers and
the local radiostations printed long
stories about RWR operations.
When the snow fell to woods RWR had
to slow down some.Tests on FM continued
on frequency of 96 MHz, which was the
official RWR frequency in those days.
During that winter also short-wave
transmissions were started ----->