Geographic Collection – Melanesia

The Mosquito Network Part 3 – AFRS Mosquito Bites

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…

The Mosquito Network Part 1 – AFRS Guadalcanal

American Military Radio in the Solomon Islands During WWII By Martin Hadlow © 2006 Baghdad To Bougainville “The American Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS)…

The Mosquito Network Part 2 – AFRS Radio City

American Military Radio in the Solomon Islands During WWII By Martin Hadlow © 2006 “RADIO CITY” In The Tropics Once ashore, Captain Spencer Allen was…

The Pioneer Radio Voice of New Guinea, AFRS-2 and WVTB Nadzab

WVTB New Guinea 1944 By John G Dietrich The radio section of Special Services Division of United States Armed Forces in the Far East [USAAFFE]…

WVTB Olympic Baseball – Christmas 1944

“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…

Early Radio in Fiji

This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All…

Mosquito Network In Fiji

This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All…

Fiji on Shortwave

This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All…

Fiji Foundations Part III

This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All…

9PA Port Moresby

This article now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa Media Group, PO Box 14339, Wellington, New Zealand. This…

WVUS Noumea & A Dog Called Satchmo

This article forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa Media Group, PO Box 14339, Wellington, New Zealand. This material…

Radio Stories From Papua New Guinea

This article forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa Media Group, PO Box 14339, Wellington, New Zealand. This material…

The Port Moresby Story

This article forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa Media Group, PO Box 14339, Wellington, New Zealand. This material…

Memories of Fiji

By Bill Sparks This article was originally published some years ago in FRENDX, now The Journal of the North American Shortwave Association. It appears here…

Radio Fiji – The Foundations

This article is from This is Radio Fiji 1954-1979 by Len Usher and Hugh Leonard for the Fiji Broadcasting Commission. Published in 1979. From the…

Radio 9AC Torokina

This article first appeared in the January 19, 1946 issue of ‘Listener in Melbourne’. Copyright to the publisher. Supplied from the collection of Dr Adrian…

Radio Free Bougainville

This article was originally published in DX Ontario, October 1992, by the Ontario DX Association, and appears with the kind permission of the ODXA and…

The Voice of The Islands

This story is based on two articles that first appeared in the DX Times in March and April 1983, and now forms part of the…

Rebel Radio In Espiritu Santo

(Note: this article was first prepared in March 1981 for publication in the New Zealand DX Times, but was not published at the time. It…

Bombs, Threats & Kanak Radio

This article was first published in ‘Islands Business’, Magazine November 1987. Author is David Robie. Copyright: David Robie Publishing Ltd, Auckland, NZ. Website: www.asiapac.org.fj Bombs,…