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Thanks for the reminder of this date.

Living in the west of Scotland, I had only started to receive a skywave signal from the Mi Amigo from the end of September and had started listening to Atlantis and the Mi Amigo Joepie hour. I thought Seagull was particularly good during this time with Tony Allan and Johnny Jason. The weird period (for me as a 12 year old) with the likes of Barry Everett and Hugh Nolan had given way to more commercial album service.

Anyhow suddenly one evening it had gone and I later found out from Record and Radio Mirror what hsd happened.

Here is a recording of Radio Atlantis on the morning of the 18th with crew member Harry Bergman and Monitor's summary of events;

The following day, Tuesday October 18th, the station was to suffer another set-back, Radio Seagull closed at 03-00 BST after Tony Allan had finished his three-hour programme, and Radio Atlantis operations commenced at 06.00 BST with continuous music. Then at approximately 09.20 BST broadcasting suddenly stopped. The breakdown was caused by a further collapse of the already damaged antenna mast, but this time it was a total write-off and nothing further was heard on 259 metres until many weeks later, when a new mast had been constructed.

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