New Voice to Russia By Ben L. Armstrong P au l F reed , President of The Voice of Tangier, Morocco, recently an tions in several European countries by Paul E. Freed and the Voice of Tan gier. The first programs will be broad cast beginning May 1960.
nounced the first full-time missionary radio voice in Europe, to be called TRANS WORLD RADIO, a n ew powerful missionary radio voice broad casting to Russia and the Satellites and to the world from the heart of Europe. Such a radio station, blanket ing the vast populations of Europe, Asia and Africa, has been the long- planned goal of THE VOICE OF TANGIER, Missionary Radio Station, w h i c h has b e e n broadcasting to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East for six years. With the completion of a giant 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 Watt Transmitter a n d five curtain antennas high on the bluffs of Monte Carlo, overlooking the
A Moroccan governmental edict of May 1959 threatened to discontinue radio broadcasting from Tangier by December 31, 1959. Negotiations are being carried on with the Moroccan government by the Voice of Tangier for the continued broadcasting from the Tangier transmitters after the year-end deadline. Rev. Paul Freed of the Voice of Tangier states that nego tiations are now being conducted to continue the radio broadcasts after this dead-line date, but we are not certain now of the result. “We are not really worried,” says Mr. Freed, “ since this new Monte Carlo operation will be
Trans World Radio, Monte Carlo. The building in the background will house the 100,000 watt transmitter to be used in proclaiming the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ around the clock.
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¡¡8 1 1 1 ® Administration Building of Voice of Tangier, located on 14 acre property called Tangier Heights, overlooking the Straits of Gibralter and Mediter ranean Sea with Spain in the distance. Tangier transmitter building hous ing two 10,000 watt Phillips trans mitters which have been used to beam directly with 8 fields of antennas to Russia and the Iron Curtain nations.
the Voice of Tangier, and Rev. B. L. Armstrong, ( right), Deputational Sec retary and author of this article. forty times more powerful than we now have in Tangier and nearly 1,000 miles closer to Russia. Our objective is to reach the Russian people and others with a strong signal which can not be overpowered by neighboring frequencies or radio interference.” In answer to the question of the jamming of broadcasts Mr. Freed states that, “ though the political broadcasts of the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and the Rritish Broadcasting Corporation have been jammed consistently by the many jamming stations in Russia (there are approximately 500 of them), the non political Bible-centered programs from Tangier have not been interrupted, but are reported to be heard by thou sands of listeners through the Soviet Union and its Satellite countries.” THE KING'S BUSINESS
Rev. Paul 1. Pietsch, Jr. { left) dis cussing Rusian broadcasting with Rev. Paul E. Freed ( center) president of Mediterranean Sea, TRANS WORLD RADIO will beam an estimated 1,600,- 000 watts of effective radiated power, making it one of the most powerful radio voices in the world, reaching such areas as Red China and India. This new full-time m i s s i o n a r y transmitter, the first in Europe, has been under construction for about a year and will be put at our disposal 24 hours a day in 1960. It will be located in Monte Carlo, Monaco, near ly 1000 miles closer to Moscow than the transmitters in Tangier, Morocco. The entire transmitting system of TRANS WORLD RADIO will involve an advance of over a half-million dol lars. This new Thompson-Houston transmitter in Monte Carlo, Monaco, is the result of three years of negotia-
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