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Pacific-Asian Log (PAL Guide) September 2024 Update
Bruce Portzer’s Pacific-Asian Log (PAL Guide) has been updated to the September 2024 edition. You can download a PDF copy here: or search the database…
RNZ marks 75 years of broadcasting shortwave into the Pacific
It has been 75 years since Radio New Zealand commenced broadcasting on shortwave frequencies into the Pacific region.
RNZ goes live with new Pacific shortwave transmitter
Shortwave transmission to the Pacific is “more important now” than in 1990 when RNZ Pacific first broadcast into the region, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister says. RNZ went live on Thursday with its new Pacific shortwave transmitter, replacing its old one that dates to 1989.
Dan Greenall Collection on Archive.org
Dan has begun setting up some of his QSL galleries on the internet archive, Archive.org, in order to help preserve radio history. We’re happy to provide these links to some of his work.
Wakkanai Air Station, 1966 -1967
One of the most interesting assignments during my USAF years was to a small ELINT (ELectronic INTelligence) gathering post, Wakkanai Air Station. Located at the northern end of Japan’s most northerly island, Hokkaido, Wakkanai AS was blessed with a climate that, coupled with it’s distance from any major population centers, made it pretty much the end of the earth in the minds of most Japanese, and to the GI’s stationed there.
VOA Okinawa Relay Station
In running through boxes of photos I came across a series of snapshots taken in 1968 during a tour of the VOA facility that then operated from a site near Okuma village in the north part of Okinawa. Googling the web didn’t produce much on the station so I figured why not post them for broadcasting/radio buffs, or whoever might be interested.
Sugarloaf: Inside the concrete eyrie high above Christchurch in the Port Hills
Published on the Stuff website in 2018, this story takes an interesting look at the Sugarloaf transmitter site located on the Port Hills above Christchurch, New Zealand.
WKBW Radio Sounders and Station IDs
WKBW Radio at 1520kHz was at one time, one of the best rock and roll stations in the USA. At night it’s broadcast signal could be heard up and down the Eastern seaboard, and even in parts of Europe including the middle of the Atlantic.
Incredible find at a flea market in Brazil
Martin Butera, our editor in Brazil, South America, finds the phone of Alexander Graham Bell, more than 140 years old, in perfect condition.
ABC Transcription Tapes for Latin America?
Enrique Klapp, from Los Angeles, writes to us: Dear Sirs, When I was a youngster in Chile, in the Seventies, radio stations in Latin America…
The Story of Terezinha Felix Cardoso (PT2TF)
Martin Butera talks to Terezinha Felix Cardoso (PT2TF), one of the oldest YLs in Brazil about her life in amateur radio.
Building Bethany – VOA’s First High-Power International Broadcast Station
Many thanks to the National VOA Museum of Broadcasting for posting the following video on their YouTube channel:
Celebrating Marconi
An event at the Marconi Museum inside the Vatican on Saturday celebrates 150 years since the birth of the man who set up Vatican Radio. Present, alongside the Prefect and directors of the Dicastery for Communications, were also Vatican Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, and Guglielmo Marconi’s grandson.
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.
The surprising silence of DRM transmissions in Brazil: Interview with Francisco Braccini
Our Brazilian correspondent Martin Butera interviews Francisco Braccini about the status of DRM in Brazil.
Palmerston North radio station powered by John Ward turns 25
For the last 25 years John Ward has shared his love of classical music through his radio station The Gramophone Room.