Early Australian AM Radio

This listing of early Australian AM radio stations and their owners has been drawn from material supplied by Bruce Carty of Radio Yesteryear Inc to provide an introduction to the first decade of broadcasting in Australia.

To be included in this list, the experimental station [or amateur license] must have broadcast during the 1920’s, on a medium wave [AM] or long wave [LW] frequency which could be heard on domestic radio receivers, and must have broadcast speech and music programs for entertainment.

Radio amateurs operated most of the stations during this period. Commercial licenses began to appear in 1924 but were still very few and far between during this first decade. Many familiar radio stations had still to make an appearance along the dial as 1929 closed.

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