SHIP FOR SALE
On 1st February, Kolk offered the Communicator and all the equipment on board for sale for $80,000. Money was raised by Yorkie the station's main engineer, but this was stopped by Kolk when he realised the station could go on with little or no extra funding. Yorkie was given control of the ship and all the American crew were dismissed. The deejays also wanted to leave the station as they had been on board for seven weeks, two were allowed shore leave. On 2nd February, work started on erecting a tee aerial system. On the 13th, tests with the tee aerial started and the signal just about reached East London. On 18th February, it was decided that the low power tee aerial tests were a waste of time, and the station should close while two one hundred foot towers were erected. From just after 14:00 on the 19th, American deejay Blake Williams was joined by an Englishman called Johnny. Reception reports were asked for, to be sent to MMI, 341 Madison Avenue, New York 10017, USA. The information was also given out in Dutch and German. Before the station closed at 16:03, DJ Johnny said "back in ten days to a couple of weeks, maybe not on 729, but keep tuning around this area of the medium wave ". The 4th March, saw the transmitter switched on at 12:45 to expel any condensation in the transmitter room. It was intended to feed the transmitter into a dummy load, but this was not the case. During the broadcasts the English deejay previously known as Johnny revealed "It's John Lewis with you on 729khz in the medium wave". Blake Williams, who continued until the transmitter was switched off at 19:04, followed him. This was the final broadcast on 729khz.

Johnny on board the Communicator...

...with Blake Williams