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Welcome! Here, you’ll find features, pictures, personalities, commercial art, radio station guides, audio and more connecting popular culture, nostalgia and radio heritage across the Pacific and beyond.
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Big Medium Wave Changes in Auckland
A major broadcasting shake-up will start in Auckland New Zealand in mid-April, as a project gets underway to start dismantling the 2 RNZ transmission masts at…
ABC Radio move to FM signals the end of an era for Perth listeners
With the ABC’s three Perth radio stations switching from AM over to the FM band, it is the end of an era for the 94-year-old transmitter in Hamersley.
The Origins of Railway Communications in Brazil
Today our South American correspondent in Brazil, Colleague Martin Butera (PT2ZDX – LU9EFO), presents us with a beautiful ride on a historic train, with the famous whistle of the steam engine.
Three Borders Amateur Radio Museum
Today I would like to take you on a trip to the south of Brazil, more precisely through the Brazilian city of Foz de Iguazú, so that together we can discover the incredible amateur radiomuseum of the three borders.
KSKO’s One Man, Full-Time Operation Connects Interior Alaska
Paul Walker, the self-professed “Alaska Radio Nerd” is the sole full-time employee of a station that provides news, music, and emergency services across a wide swath of central Alaska.
Long Lost Australian Radio Stars
2CH Sydney
AWA Station 2CH Who’s Who at 2CH in 1946 Travelling by fast elevator to the top of the AWA building at 47 York Street, Sydney,…
AFRS Armed Forces Radio Memories
9PA Port Moresby WWII ABC – AFRS Radio
By Adrian Peterson For a period of around two years during the Pacific War, there was no radio broadcasting station on the air in Port…
Island Radio Pacific Style
Samoa’s Radio 2AP Redevelopment Project
Enjoy this YouTube video from Australia’s ABC on the redevelopment project at 2AP: Samoa’s newly rebuilt Radio 2AP transmitter is already broadcasting essential information to…
Radio ZJV Suva
Foundations of Radio Fiji by Len Usher and Hugh Leonard The first Fiji Broadcasting Commission was appointed in June 1953, as assumed control of broadcasting…
Radio in Samoa
5ZA-ZMAP-2AP in Apia by Dr Adrian Peterson It was very early in the wireless era that a spark gap Morse Code station was established at…
New Zealand Radio
Big Medium Wave Changes in Auckland
A major broadcasting shake-up will start in Auckland New Zealand in mid-April, as a project gets underway to start dismantling the 2 RNZ transmission masts at…
The Radio Heritage Collection
Art of Radio ©
Nautel Memorable Radio
Lure of the Trail
Coffee and Radio
Long Lost Radio History Images
KCCN Hawaiian Radio
KCCN Honolulu 1420 AM was one of the most popular radio stations in the Hawaiian islands. It broadcast Hawaiian music and culture and has since…
New Zealand Broadcasting Scrapbooks
From Our South American Correspondent
The Origins of Railway Communications in Brazil
Today our South American correspondent in Brazil, Colleague Martin Butera (PT2ZDX – LU9EFO), presents us with a beautiful ride on a historic train, with the famous whistle of the steam engine.
CQ CQ CQ Seeking Information
The Old Timers
Raymond Conder writes to us from Perth, Western Australia: I started out in radio announcing in 1962 I think it was 6VA Albany and then…
ABC Transcription Tapes for Latin America?
Enrique Klapp, from Los Angeles, writes to us: Dear Sirs, When I was a youngster in Chile, in the Seventies, radio stations in Latin America…
Alan Sanders on 5DN Adelaide?
Anne Larkins writes to us: Alan Sanders was my grandfather. I would be very interested to actually hear his voice as he passed away before…