What every Baby Boomer wants in their stockings this Christmas.

Dec. 18, 2008 - PRLog -- My dad was never a full-time hippie though some of his photos show him in flaired trousers and hair down to the shoulders. Well he's gone a bit bald now, but like many of his generation he can still point to The Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney and claim that their gang not only discovered Rock'n'Roll but are still rockin' on down the road. Back in the 1960s the essential piece of kit for every Baby Boomer was their own personal transistor radio. Late each evening they would tune into illicit broadcasts playing their kind of music from distant transmitters. In the USA, these were over the border in Mexico, blasting their music into every teenage bedroom. In Europe, the radio stations were on ships anchored out in international waters and beyond the licensing restrictions of the authorities. What fun; music and irreverant discjockeys speaking to the new generation.

This Christmas it's possible to bring on back the goodtimes for those like my dad by buying them each a Worldband Radio, that's one which picks up shortwave transmissions. Armed with his new radio he'll be able to pickup a special service devised and operated by those that still recall the days of tuning into the pop pirates. The imagination behind it all belongs to Eric van Willegen, a Dutchman whose mission is to recreate the heady atmosphere of those 60's radio days. He's manged to hire an old Soviet propaganda border-blaster in Lithuania, with a power of 100 kilowatts, that's enough not only to be rockin' all over Europe, but be heard in America and Australia too!

Don't tell him it's possible to do it all on the Internet these days, that's not what he wants. "Let the youngsters listen to their I-Pods" he argues, "I'm for those used to twiddling the knobs to get their rock'n'roll, and a bit of hiss and whistle on a distant radio station is all part of it!"

On Christmas Day, and again on the 26th, Eric's station, The Mighty KBC Radio will operate from 10.00 to 15.30 UTC, that's London time, on a frequency of 9770 kHz
shortwaves,  Later at 21.30 to 22.30 UTC he'll broadcast THE WOLFMAN JACK SHOW on the frequency of 6055 kHz shortwaves. There's more information about the programmes on http://www,kbcradio.eu

So, if you're stuck about what to get the old-timer for Christmas, here's your answer: print out this article, wrap it with a Worldband Radio, and put it in his stocking!  He'll love it!  Merry Christmas!

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KBC Radio is an Import/Export trader of electronic communications equipment.
It also broadcasts across Europe from a radiotransmitter near Vilnius in Lithuania.
http://www.kbcradio.eu
The programmes are sponsored by The Port Royal Hotel on The Isle of Bute, http://www.butehotel.com