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Category: Island Radio Pacific Style

ZK1ZA Cook Islands Educational Radio

By Arthur Cushen Broadcasting to the islands of the South Pacific was introduced in various ways. In the case of the Cook Islands, it was…

ANZAC Day 2007 Radio Salute

During World War 2, Australia sent a number of mobile radio stations overseas to broadcast to troops, mainly in the South West Pacific, and also…

Australian WWII Pacific Radio – Diggers on Air

Australian forces in the SW Pacific and Japan were served by a number of stations during and immediately after WWII. The little known Australian Army…

Pago Pago – The Tall Tower Tour

Photos by: David B Musick It’s not often we see some Pacific towers, but you’ll enjoy this series of photos taken recently at Pago Pago,…

Christmas Island Radio

by Ron Ehrke Radio comes to Christmas Island To people living in the developed economies of the world, information is shared in ways which were…

Radio Tokelau

By Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wellington, New Zealand ‘The Tokelau (or Union) Group of islands which was attached to the Western Samoan administration from 1926…

Cruisin’ with the Cows at Radio Norfolk

By David Ricquish It’s ‘drivetime’ on Radio Norfolk, and down the road at the Burnt Pine shopping center, there’s a potential traffic jam when wandering…

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…

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…