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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.

The World of Cassiano Mendonça PY3CSM

Welcome to the story of the Brazilian radio amateur who recovers old AM transmitters, welcome to the world of Cassiano Mendonça (PY3CSM)

RNZ marks 75 years of broadcasting shortwave into the Pacific

It has been 75 years since Radio New Zealand commenced broadcasting on shortwave frequencies into the Pacific region.

RNZ goes live with new Pacific shortwave transmitter

Shortwave transmission to the Pacific is “more important now” than in 1990 when RNZ Pacific first broadcast into the region, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister says. RNZ went live on Thursday with its new Pacific shortwave transmitter, replacing its old one that dates to 1989.

Wakkanai Air Station, 1966 -1967

One of the most interesting assignments during my USAF years was to a small ELINT (ELectronic INTelligence) gathering post, Wakkanai Air Station. Located at the northern end of Japan’s most northerly island, Hokkaido, Wakkanai AS was blessed with a climate that, coupled with it’s distance from any major population centers, made it pretty much the end of the earth in the minds of most Japanese, and to the GI’s stationed there.

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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…

Samoan Radio Journey

by David Ricquish We turned a corner on the Cross Island Road, and there sat a stumpy little radio tower, almost hidden in the misty…

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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…

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  • Ira Cook 1962
    by Thom on May 19, 2025 at 23:14

      (L to R) Dick Whittinghill, Ira Cook, Johnny Grant, Stan Warwick and Roger CarrollIra is back, with another show recorded at KMPC.  Hear Ira every day 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern on www.mybestsounds.comIra Cook 1962More Ira Cook

  • Mary Helen Barro 1983
    by Thom on May 19, 2025 at 23:10

      Mary Helen Barro brought the best in Latin music.  When suffering a violent winter, the music made it warmer.  See the beach?Mary Helen Barro - 1983More Mary Helen Barro

  • Charlie Tuna 1980
    by Thom on May 18, 2025 at 21:42

     That picture is from the AFRTS-LA promo set of 8x10s that went to every station. It's a trip to 1980, a Friday and time for the Charlie Tuna Show.Hear Charlie every morning at 8am (Central) on www.mybestsounds.comCharlie Tuna - January 1980More Charlie Tuna