Radio Woodstock was a linguistic nightmare. The station had the most unique privilege of having the voice of a Chilean exile Scot as the main station presenter and engineer. A Falkirk / Chilean accent!!! Luis Nieto turned out to be as colourful a character in real life, as he was on the airwaves.

For a few months during the summer of 1980, Luis and his wife Maggie, and partner from his MW days of broadcasting to Falkirk, club / disco DJ Brian McMillan treated the SW dxers to live broadcasts on 7315kHz, complete with phone calls taken on air live!! The phone number that was announced was the station number, where the studio and transmitters were. No secret was made of the QTH...!!

Thanks to Jock Wilson of Radio Stella / Thistle Radio, Luis was pointed in the direction of SW. The initial low powered broadcast was simply Jock, announcing the address of 4 Yew Terrace, West Quarter, Falkirk, Scotland. This was the actual premises of the station, and a more less obvious address was found, of 23 Simpson Street, Camelon, Falkirk. The station continued virtually fortnightly, until on November 9th the GPO struck. See below for real audio file of the raid, taken off air.

Former presenter on Radio Capricorn / Radio Sunshine International on SW, Mike Johns even took a trip up to Scotland to present a live show. James Harding of FRBC was also well advanced at the planning of a trip to Scotland before trouble struck.

On 9th November 1980 listeners in Europe were left breathless as the GPO and the police walked into the Radio Woodstock studio in Yew Terrace, West Quarter, Falkirk, and closed the station down. The powerful 120 watt transmitter that had been entertaining Europe every few weeks fell silent.

The neatly constructed 120 Watt transmitter which used to play out all over Europe on 7315kHz 41m in late 1980
and understood to have been taken by the Post Office.

Radio Woodstock often sent out photographs of the studio and presenters along with the QSL cards.
Station operator Luis Nieto poses above on one of the photos.

Above are QSL's sent out from Radio Woodstock in 1980, although the times were more like
the whole transmission time, and not the time of reception.
Also sent out in 1980 was a duplicated sheet with press cuttings, none dated sadly - click image below for full size pdf (1.8MB).

Luis at one stage was going to restart transmissions with a high powered transmitter as "2 Radio Waves Express". This rather unusual station name never made it to the airwaves.

Some other photo of the Radio Woodstock studio in a different layout,
and two different transmitters on the racking.
Possibly from the pre shortwave days on MW 1254kHz / 239m.
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The mast at the back of the house and another shot of Luis with some of his radio equipment.
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The above information sheet was produced around 1982, along with the sticker at the head of the page.