Radio Station WSZD, Ponape
© Trust Territory of the Pacific Archives,
University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Radio Heritage Foundation Collection.
Radio Station WSZD was a government owned broadcaster serving Ponape in the US Trust Territory of the Pacific.
It broadcast on a frequency of 1450kc with an initial power of 1kW.
This photo is from the early 1970’s and shows the outside of the broadcasting studios.
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I worked in Ponape’s WSZD station as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 1967-1969, along with local Ponapeans Elias Thomas, Kodaro Gallen, Bilamon George, Dusty Frederick and others.
Memorable times and the unique experience of a lifetime, but sadly also the place where, monitoring Voice of America, I first heard, in the repugnant year of 1968, of the deaths of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Bobby Kennedy.