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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
2PK Parkes “The Voice of the Golden West”
Parkes Broadcasting Co. Pty. Ltd. is the licensee of 2PK, which came on the air on October 5th 1937. This station which is a unit…
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…
This is WVUV…
WVUV Radio in American Samoa by Bill Reiker After a 35 year broadcast career in the U.S., I took some time off in 1989 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…
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
Disney AFRS Poster
In 2022 Susan Knisley found this in a cabin in Athol, ID. She sent it to us and we added it to our collection of Long Lost Radio History Images.
New Zealand Broadcasting Scrapbooks
From Our South American Correspondent
The surprising silence of DRM transmissions in Brazil: Interview with Francisco Braccini
Our Brazilian correspondent Martin Butera interviews Francisco Braccini about the status of DRM in Brazil.
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…