WHAT YOU SAY

What
You say...

One of the unique things about Horizon Magazine is that it gives free voice to the views of listeners, many of whom are regular paying fans buying merchandise or donating directly to keep Caroline and her Radio Ship afloat. Here`s just a taster of what you regularly send us for YOUR Horizon Magazine...

From you the readers & supporters...

A big thank-you to all who are working hard on the Ross Revenge, hope it’s not too long before the ship is open again with all it’s magic.
The magazine just keeps getting better and better. Love the photos. I also read Peter Moore’s answers with interest and can understand where he’s coming from, but I can’t get my head around the ship part (which I believe is all about Caroline) we seem to forget what the Ross means to most of us. I know there’s a lot of people dedicated to keeping it ship-shape.
“I WOULD LIKE TO LISTEN TO MUSIC FROM “ THE SHIP” “

(NOT A STUDIO SOMEWHERE)...”

“With all the success that RC has had in the last year, it is not now time to take the station to the authorities on all fronts, DAB, Analogue and EPG. We must seek to use the system for the benefit of R. Caroline and its family of listeners, and rightfully put R. Caroline back at the top of the broadcasting agenda where she belongs...”

“There are many people who have offered Radio Caroline advice over the years, since the Goodwin Sands episode, but little has ever been heeded. Prominent people who were considered by supporters to be a part of Caroline have presumably become disenchanted and left without trace. A decreasing band of fans are constantly badgered for their cash support, even though they themselves would gain little in return for their donation. There is this romantic notion of keeping the dream alive...:”

“We don`t mind contributing to the EPG fund in order for our efforts to have a successful outcome, but help from Peter Moore would be greatly appreciated because people can only prove their worth by a positive example, Ther`s nothing `cheap` about advertising the EPG fund on Caroline whatsoever...”

One of the definite positive points from this RSL is the number of new volunteers who came forward to help, and I’m pleased to say that many of them have stuck around and have become regular members of the crew..

“Well done to everyone involved in the RSL and thanks to you for the web site. It`s really complmented the broadcasts superbly and you should all be congratulated!”,

In response to Peter Moore’s article I would like to say that the Ross Revenge has been Caroline’s base nearly 25 years of the stations history. There must be a way of bringing the ship back into a major role.

“The strength of Caroline is the collective knowledge, ability and goodwill of the presenters. The weakness is in the leadership and structure of how everything works, or tends not to”

“My hopes for Caroline in 2005 would be that it continues to broadcast. With my optimists hat on an EPG listing and a permanent AM frequesncy...”

“I`d like to see the Ross Revenge getting apermanent stay in Tilbury and becoming both a sort of Radio Caroline museum/merchandise shop and a possibility for regular satellite broadcasts...”

“We must try every avenue, I think programme sponsorship might well be away forward”

“Although I don`t have the final figures....for the recent RSL broadcast, I can tell you all that this has been the most succesful short-term broadcast ever for Radio Caroline...”

Thank you for the Horizon. Do like Jenny’s poems, coloured pictures, and news / updates. I look forward to the magazine, as I’ve always been a Caroline listener since the very start.

The magazine just keeps getting better and better. Love the photos. I also read Peter Moore’s answers with interest and can understand where he’s coming from, but I can’t get my head around the ship part (which I believe is all about Caroline) we seem to forget what the Ross means to most of us. I know there’s a lot of people dedicated to keeping it ship-shape.
The magazine is as ‘fab’ as ever. Well done to everyone for getting a listing on Sky.
I would like to thank all involved with Horizon, as it’s going from strength to strength; congratulations.
Thank you for the latest Horizon, once again it was a brilliant issue.

I like the interviews with Roger Matthews and Tom Lodge, it would be good to talk the others.

“Thanks very much for the latest Horizon Magazine. I am sure Jenny would have been very proud to know that you will continue with the magazine at such an aweful time for you...”

Thanks for another excellent Horizon (107) Jenny’s poem was very welcome as always and I enjoyed the feature by Sheridon Street, with excellent colour photos of life on Caroline in the sixties. It’s been a harsh winter so I must add my congratulations to all the volunteers who have worked so hard on the ship in very cold weather

I`m very pleased you included the RSL at Tilbury in Horizon, as I couldn`t make it to this event in person, it was great to see the coloured photos and read all about it”

“I hope you keep the magazine in circulation; it would be missed in offshore radio circles if it closed”

“Thank you for sending to my new address that Caroline RSL video/cd so quickly, and it`s great quality and a great value item”

I was a Caroline fan from 1964 onwards, including such stations as Radio London, RNI and Radio Mi Amigo. Laser 558’s music format was not to my taste but I liked it’s presentation and dee jays. To get more involved knowledge wise I joined the Caroline Movement in the early days and had the pleasure to meet Brian Bannister, who told me a lot of what went on during his summer trips to my home in Norfolk. I also had contact with other’s who had a good knowledge of Caroline including one that worked on the station in the seventies. The one thing that cropped up time and time again during the seventies, and very much so from 1987, was the poor management of Caroline and it’s lack of revenue. As much as we the listeners enjoyed Caroline we owe a great debt of thanks to those who risked their lives to bring us programmes we liked, because it was not down to people like Ronan O’Rahilly or Peter Moore that took the real risks, yet their legacy of poor management and lack of revenue still ails the present Radio Caroline. Because of the way it is financed and how it is run and those in control who don’t want to lose their management positions, it can never progress. What is it we would all really like? Answer…..The ship tied up in a port we can all access with permanent broadcasts coming from it’s masts again. The right to use the name Caroline given over to a more securely financed organisation, and some of those well known dee jays from the past back behind the microphone on proper regular wages. The alternative is more of what you have suffered since 1991, and as fans grow old and die off no new volunteers are coming forward.

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(some of...) Caroline’s most dramatic and finest moments

Thanks to Jim Burke for compiling this list of Caroline moments from readers of the Radio Caroline Mailing List on Yahoo. If you have a moment you think worthy of listing then please let us know

Top 1000 to celebrate 25 Years of broadcasting

The Raid – 19 August 1989

Johnny Walker, keeping Caroline on air after the MOA

The return to air after the raid

The sinking of the Mi Amigo

Caroline Overdrive

Caroline 819, The Overnight Alternative

Caroline International, Easter 2005 RSL

The return of Caroline from the Ross Revenge 1983

Eurosiege

The original opening, Easter 1964

Sailing to the IoM, broadcasting as she went

Frinton Flashing
Kiss in the Car

The 1970 election results on Caroline from the Mebo II

Tony Allan at midnight on 31 August 1974 as Caroline became illegal in Holland

Caroline South returning to the air (with new transmitter and new
jingles) in 1966 after the grounding.

Mick Luvzit's wedding live on Caroline North

Johnnie Walker re-broadcasting "Mrs.Dale's Diary"

The return of Caroline (or Radio 199 as it was called for a while)
in late '72.

Tony Allan re-opening Caroline after months of silence at Easter
1979.