July 30, 2020
COMMENTARY: By Sylvester Gawi in Lae I grew up in the 90’s listening to NBC Radio – Radio Kundu – which was informative and always reaching out to the mass population of Papua New Guinea who can afford a transistor radio. From entertaining …
May 19, 2020
Port Vila, August 3, 2016 The Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television Corporation (VBTC) is celebrating its 50 years of broadcasting in the then New Hebrides, and today the Republic of Vanuatu. Some of the former surviving staff of Radio Vanuatu posing …
February 18, 2020
The couple who fell in love over the ABC’s Radio Australia more than 50 years ago Michael Vincent Dec 15 2019 Anita and Humphrey Chang married after falling in love with each others’ letters, read out on Radio Australia. They were from …
March 15, 2019
James Stewart has sent us this photo of a QSL flyer from WSSO in 1944 and writes: In going through some of my Dad’s papers, I was reminded of his wartime service. About all I know about it was that he reached the rank of Tech Sergeant by the …
August 20, 2015
Hello, I’m David Ricquish in the Wellington studios of Radio New Zealand International and today we continue our look at the changing Pacific… and in particular at how it’s becoming increasingly more urbanized… and how …
July 17, 2015
Hello, I'm David Ricquish in the Wellington studios of Radio New Zealand International and today we're going to have a look at the changing Pacific... and in particular at how it's becoming increasingly more urbanized... and how radio today is much less laid back than you might imagine.
January 18, 2012
Snow White and the Seven DJs Melanie Arnost Once upon a time there was a radio station on Tanna Island, Vanuatu. It was without broadcasters, music, programs or funds. The only inhabitants of the station were old equipment and a lot of dust. So it …
July 9, 2011
David Ricquish One of the most fascinating countries for international shortwave radio listeners continues to be Papua New Guinea… a large archipelago of islands to the immediate north of Australia… mainly because it has some twenty locally …
August 20, 2009
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 Moresby. However, when the American forces flooded into the South Pacific in support of the war effort, there was …
May 14, 2009
American Military Radio in the Solomon Islands During WWII By Martin Hadlow © 2006 Expansion And Contraction As AES-Guadalcanal continued to develop, it was joined by other new stations in The Mosquito Network. On April 3, 1944, AES-Munda (New …
May 13, 2009
American Military Radio in the Solomon Islands During WWII By Martin Hadlow © 2006 Baghdad To Bougainville “The American Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) provides Stateside radio and television programming, ‘a touch of home,’ to …
May 13, 2009
American Military Radio in the Solomon Islands During WWII By Martin Hadlow © 2006 “RADIO CITY” In The Tropics Once ashore, Captain Spencer Allen was relieved to find that Army engineers and Signal Corpsmen had constructed a studio building …
August 15, 2006
WVTB New Guinea 1944 John G Dietrich, Radio Stations AFRS-2 and WVTB New Guinea 1944 © John G Dietrich Collection, courtesy Ruth Dietrich, Radio Heritage Foundation. By John G Dietrich The radio section of Special Services Division of United States …
August 15, 2006
“One of the announcers was driving down the road the other day, and stopped to pick up some hitch-hikers. One of them was a flight sergeant on a transport plane. He saw the ‘WVTB’ on the front of the jeep and told quite a story. It …
April 23, 2004
This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa Media Group, PO Box 14339, Wellington, New Zealand. This …
April 23, 2004
This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa Media Group, PO Box 14339, Wellington, New Zealand. This …
April 23, 2004
This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa Media Group, PO Box 14339, Wellington, New Zealand. This …
April 23, 2004
This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa Media Group, PO Box 14339, Wellington, New Zealand. This …
January 10, 2004
This article now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa Media Group, PO Box 14339, Wellington, New Zealand. This material is licenced on a nonexclusive basis to the South Pacific DX Resource hosted on …
August 16, 2002
This article forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa Media Group, PO Box 14339, Wellington, New Zealand. This material is licenced on a non-exclusive basis to South Pacific DX Resource hosted on radiodx.com for a …
July 30, 2020COMMENTARY: By Sylvester Gawi in Lae I grew up in the 90’s listening to NBC Radio – Radio Kundu – which was informative and always reaching out to the mass population of Papua New Guinea who can afford a transistor radio. From entertaining …
May 19, 2020Port Vila, August 3, 2016 The Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television Corporation (VBTC) is celebrating its 50 years of broadcasting in the then New Hebrides, and today the Republic of Vanuatu. Some of the former surviving staff of Radio Vanuatu posing …
February 18, 2020The couple who fell in love over the ABC’s Radio Australia more than 50 years ago Michael Vincent Dec 15 2019 Anita and Humphrey Chang married after falling in love with each others’ letters, read out on Radio Australia. They were from …
March 15, 2019James Stewart has sent us this photo of a QSL flyer from WSSO in 1944 and writes: In going through some of my Dad’s papers, I was reminded of his wartime service. About all I know about it was that he reached the rank of Tech Sergeant by the …
August 20, 2015Hello, I’m David Ricquish in the Wellington studios of Radio New Zealand International and today we continue our look at the changing Pacific… and in particular at how it’s becoming increasingly more urbanized… and how …
July 17, 2015Hello, I'm David Ricquish in the Wellington studios of Radio New Zealand International and today we're going to have a look at the changing Pacific... and in particular at how it's becoming increasingly more urbanized... and how radio today is much less laid back than you might imagine.
January 18, 2012Snow White and the Seven DJs Melanie Arnost Once upon a time there was a radio station on Tanna Island, Vanuatu. It was without broadcasters, music, programs or funds. The only inhabitants of the station were old equipment and a lot of dust. So it …
July 9, 2011David Ricquish One of the most fascinating countries for international shortwave radio listeners continues to be Papua New Guinea… a large archipelago of islands to the immediate north of Australia… mainly because it has some twenty locally …
August 20, 2009By Adrian Peterson For a period of around two years during the Pacific War, there was no radio broadcasting station on the air in Port Moresby. However, when the American forces flooded into the South Pacific in support of the war effort, there was …
May 14, 2009American Military Radio in the Solomon Islands During WWII By Martin Hadlow © 2006 Expansion And Contraction As AES-Guadalcanal continued to develop, it was joined by other new stations in The Mosquito Network. On April 3, 1944, AES-Munda (New …
May 13, 2009American Military Radio in the Solomon Islands During WWII By Martin Hadlow © 2006 “RADIO CITY” In The Tropics Once ashore, Captain Spencer Allen was relieved to find that Army engineers and Signal Corpsmen had constructed a studio building …
August 15, 2006WVTB New Guinea 1944 John G Dietrich, Radio Stations AFRS-2 and WVTB New Guinea 1944 © John G Dietrich Collection, courtesy Ruth Dietrich, Radio Heritage Foundation. By John G Dietrich The radio section of Special Services Division of United States …
August 15, 2006“One of the announcers was driving down the road the other day, and stopped to pick up some hitch-hikers. One of them was a flight sergeant on a transport plane. He saw the ‘WVTB’ on the front of the jeep and told quite a story. It …
April 23, 2004This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa Media Group, PO Box 14339, Wellington, New Zealand. This …
January 10, 2004This article now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa Media Group, PO Box 14339, Wellington, New Zealand. This material is licenced on a nonexclusive basis to the South Pacific DX Resource hosted on …