Radio Hauraki co-founder David Gapes has died
One of the founders of New Zealand’s pirate radio station and then commercial radio station Radio Hauraki, David Gapes, has died.
Remembering the Tiri
On the Eastern shores of Matakohe-Limestone Island lie the derelict remains of a once-famous floating pirate radio studio. Scattered skeletal piles of rusting metal is all that remains of the shipwrecked Tiri, once the beating heart of Radio Hauraki and the centre of a political and media storm of the swinging sixties. From her cockpit on the Hauraki Coast, she debuted to the carefree tune of Matt Monro’s Born Free, defiantly blasting through wireless into the homes of thousands of 1960s young Kiwi fans.
I remember setting up a radio at Hygrade factory Hornby Christchurch for my work mates to listen to Hauraki in early evening using a piece…
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As the presenter and producer of a media show in the 1980’s and 1990’s on Radio Netherlands, we always found interest from the audience in…
I lived at Clontarf north of Brisbane as a schoolboy. I vividly remember waiting for 4ZR Roma to go off the air at 10pm so…
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Hello from Belgium – Europe. Hi my name is Herman from the city Gent – East Flanders. I’m a big Offshore Radio Freak. My bigest…
I grew up on you guys! 1966 I was a rATHER PRECOCIOUS 11 Y.O. AND I SNEAKIly LOOKED AT MUM AND DAD’S “TRUTH” newspaper racy…
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I was a schoolboy in Leicestershire, England, and wrote to Radio Hauraki after reading about it in a newspaper here. To my amazement, Keith Ashton…
Hi peoples, I was a tech for the Good Guys in 1967. Recorded Ross Goodwins program. In the early days they only had Mellow Yellow…
Hi I remember those great days, and wish to send best wishes to John Forbes who I worked with, but sadly TVNZ filmed John and…
As a kid in the 1960’s, I have fond memories of Radio Hauraki and “Good Guy” announcers, Peter Telling, Ian Magan, Barry Knight. I recall…
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It must have been Xmas 1967 when I lay in bed at my grandmother’s place listening to her old radio with a longwire antenna in…
Well, the Radio Heritage Foundation webmaster may get angry at me for spilling some beans, but at this date so close to the anniversary, my…
I live with one of the former Pirates, good old Murray McGill, the svelte chap up the mast trying to free it from the bridge…
My first conscious memory of Radio Hauraki is probably in 1972, as a child in Auckland growing up and being fascinated by Auckland Radio. I…
Hi Guys, I work for radio Dunedin as a volunteer, and listen to you fellas during the week at my paying job. Keep up the…