The world at the time of the first free radio and TV in the mid-70s, was comparable to the conquest of the West. The ether was to conquer the West and many of us were the pioneers of this achievement. For young people today is very difficult to imagine what happened in those years, this revolutionary phenomenon that changed our lives. If you are under thirty years, was born and grew up with radio and television commercial, with color TV, with thousands of channels of every genre and listeners and predictability with dozens of different means. It would seem that everything was always there, but by stepping back and going back to 1974, in Italy there was only one radio and one television, RAI. It was not until 1976 to start talking about the phenomenon of "free radio" and those who have made this possible. reaching our age is naturally recall his youth, memories emerge and nostalgia for times gone by, is the host. We want to start talking about those people, that with their passion, their dedication, their preparation, losing hours, days, destroying their car to get up in the mountains to transmit those signals as desired by the society of that time and which today we're almost addicted, have allowed the challenge of those years would turn into reality. We will talk only to those people who have gravitated around and still gravitate to our Radio Studio Center - Consortium Radio-Siciliano, but talking about them, their experience, we can expand the conversation and talk about all those pioneers who changed the ether face of our Italy, claiming a right guaranteed by the Constitution, namely freedom of expression of proprie idee con qualunque mezzo disponibile.
Iniziamo a parlare del compianto Salvatore Muratore , tecnico di alta frequenza, scomparso alcuni anni fa in un incidente avvenuto in una stazione ripetitrice di Monte Pellegrino a Palermo, di cui nessuno oggi parla, ma che a nostro parere dovrebbe essere sempre ricordato. Iniziò la sua attività a Marineo, un centro che dista 25 km da Palermo, che ha sempre avuto un ruolo rilevante nel settore radiofonico, dove, nel 1976, nacque la prima emittente radiofonica provinciale siciliana; molti di noi in quegli anni iniziarono con lui l’esperienza radiofonica come speaker.
Nel 1980 nacque la nostra radio, Radio Studio Centro, trasmetteva come emittente zonale frequency of 90.00 MHz with a transmitter and we had a DIY antenna on the roof of our headquarters which allowed us to reach the area between Marineo and Misilmeri. As you cross the Mason story of Toto with that of Radio Studio Center is easy to explain. In 1982, for technical issues we have asked his advice and he began to deal with problems without the high frequency of our station. It was so much love for the profession and the confidence to make a contribution through his art, which paid no attention to the fact that we were those who were exiled from his radio to make another, even took to heart this new creature in the meantime grew.
Nel 1985, con un nuovo assetto societario, Radio Studio Centro – Consorzio Radiofonico Siciliano intendeva estendere la propria zona di copertura a sud - est della provincia di Palermo e in zone della stessa città. Occupandosi di alta frequenza, cioè della produzione e della installazione di apparecchiature per la trasmissione dei segnali in FM, ci affidammo a Totò per la realizzazione del ripetitore. Totò Muratore era un nostro compaesano, lo conoscevamo sin dai nostri esordi radiofonici, ci ha visto crescere prima come speaker e poi come proprietari della nuova radio. Era preparato e molto professionale in questo lavoro, caratteristiche impensabili in quei tempi dove andava di moda il fai da te. Ci propose di sdoppiare la frequenza, lasciando il primo segnale sui 90,00 Mhz in trasmissione da Marineo centro e di accendere una nuova frequenza sui 102,500 Mhz in montagna, in contrada Costa Zita. Le apparecchiature che ci consigliò di installare erano all’avanguardia. Mentre quasi tutte le radio avevano un collegamento in Banda e cioè sulla frequenza 88-108 Mhz oppure, nel migliore dei casi, in fuori banda tra 52 e 68 Mhz, noi installammo un ponte professionale CBM a 1 Ghz sulle frequenze che oggi sono usate dai telefonini, sugli 800-900 Mhz. Il risultato fu stupefacente, ci ascoltavamo ovunque, abbiamo ricevuto delle relazioni di ascolto, che ancora oggi conserviamo gelosamente, dalla Campania, dall’Emilia Romagna e perfino dalla lontanissima Svezia. A contribuire al nostro success was also an audio processor, a historic Hiletron Toto that made us buy the same because, ahead of its time, as we said then, a radio that you listen well, with a signal-bodied, it is followed, and then winning.
But the story was coming to the sad ending. It was 1987, due to a failure of the transmitter on 90.00 Mhz we thought it was time to take a big step, that is to further widen our catchment area to the City, taking advantage of its historical one frequency. It was a Friday in late March, we brought the equipment by Toto to fix it and to lay the foundation for our project. We would see, to have repaired the transmitter and plan that long awaited expansion of the coverage area, the following Wednesday, April 1, that is after the commitment he had taken with the issuer Punto Radio that was broadcast its signal in the City. We asked Toto, we knew full employment as the echo of his professionalism was known in Sicily as well as outside, not to make us the joke of the fish in April not to repair the transmitter. He was also a man of a joke and told several anecdotes concerning him, among all, that of a day in winter, with snow in the mountains, which was chosen to install the antennas. On 25 meters high tower, we went with a cigarette in his mouth and the glasses da sole, le antenne sulle spalle, dicendo alle persone che si trovavano con lui, preoccupate che quella non era la giornata ideale per lavorare in montagna, che proprio quella era la giornata ideale per quel tipo di lavoro.
Ma arriviamo a lunedì 30 marzo 1987, alle ore 20 ricevemmo una telefonata che ci annunciava la triste notizia… Totò Muratore era morto! La vita, a volte gioca brutti scherzi. A 32 anni morire folgorato a Monte Pellegrino, per una banale disattenzione, mentre esegui il tuo tanto amato lavoro di radiotecnico è una beffa alla vita. Chissà quante cose avrebbe potuto ancora fare Totò negli anni a venire, sia nella sua vita, sia nel settore radiofonico, sia per la nostra Radio. Il primo di aprile, quel April Fool's Toto did, we kept the appointment with him but we were at his funeral. A note or a dull and gloomy signal arose at that time by all the radios to give a final farewell to those who had given his life for love immeasurable called Radio.
Unless Rallo
0 comments:
Post a Comment