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Radio Heritage News
www.radioheritage.net
Issue #21 - May 2009
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If you haven't visited www.radioheritage.net lately, you're missing
out on lots of new stories and photos from around the Pacific and
beyond, as well as a chance to enter our latest Art of Radio Hawaii
competition!!!!

Thanks to everyone who responded to our call last month for help to
update the website. We've done it! Yes, thanks to donations we've
received, we're now busy pushing new content online almost
daily......and you can get the benefit of it today!

WIN a KPOI Retro t-shirt
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You can now win a retro style KPOI [Honolulu] T-shirt from 1961
simply by entering our new Art of Radio Hawaii competition continuing
to celebrate Hawaii's 50 years of statehood.....look for it at
www.radioheritage.net and send your entries in no later than midnight
on Kamehameha Day, June 11. Thanks to our friends at RadioLogoLand
[www.radiologoland.com] for donating the prize!

Top 5 in the World
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US magazine 'Popular Communications' named us as one of the world's
Top 5 QSL [Radio Heritage] Collections in April.....and it's thanks
to people like you who send their collections to us for safekeeping
that we've achieved this honor....in some cases, these cards and
letters are all that remain of too many radio stations. Email us
about your radio memorabilia today.

Images from these collections help make our articles and stories more
entertaining too...the old story of a picture being worth a thousand
words...and you'll enjoy some great images [and much more besides] in
our new articles:

Antarctic Radio Unfreezes
& Early Argentine Radio
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Antarctic Radio Unfreezes takes you for an introductory glide along
the radio dial at places like McMurdo Station and the South
Pole....over 10 stations on air across the frozen wastes...Early
Argentina Radio explores how broadcasting began in the 1920's, the
connections with the Pacific and check out the Eva Peron photo......

AFRS Mosquito Network
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The AFRS [Armed Forces Radio Service] Mosquito Network features in a
scholarly trio of new articles, based on interviews with many of the
original broadcasters and access to private collections....and
examines how radio first reached the Solomon Islands and the New
Hebrides in World War II.

You'll enjoy AFRS Guadalcanal, AFRS Radio City and AFRS Mosquito
Bites...the latest in our popular AFRS research series. Check out
AFRS Jungle Network, AFRS Japan, AFRS Alaska, AFRS China-Burma-India
and many more....... 

2LT Lithgow and more Aussies
+ the 2ZA Exhibition Extends
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Coming in the next week or so are, finally, more from our Long Lost
Australian Radio Stars series...2LT Lithgow, 2BH Broken Hill and
others. These are incredibly popular, along with our Australia Radio
Dial 1931 exhibition. Good on ya mate!

Talking of exhibitions, Te Manawa Museum in Palmerston North [NZ] has
extended the display for 2ZA Voice of the Manawatu. This social
history exhibition includes a full size replica of the original 2ZA
studios and offices, full of sounds, images and artifacts of a
regional commercial radio station from the 1930's. 

If you can't get there, don't worry. We'll be bringing the exhibition
online here at www.radioheritage.net later this year as a permanent
record of this fantastic exhibition.

Save US$10 on Hauraki Stuff
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There are some great book and CD bargains this month and June. You'll
save US$10 on the classic 'Voices in the Air' story of radio in New
Zealand, and another US$10 on the 'Shoestring Pirates' Radio Hauraki
book + the CD 'A Fresh Pacific Wind'. All the details are at
www.radioheritage.net, and we're now down to less than 10 copies of
the Hauraki book so if you haven't got your copy yet, make sure of
yours now! It's well out-of-print......

More great books become available shortly, so keep watching the
website for details and more special money saving offers. 

New Pacific Asian Log [PAL]
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You'll also find the latest updated copy of the Pacific Asia Log AM
Radio Guide...lots of changes so download your copy today....some
great radio stamps feature in the NZLPFM Blog....and soon we'll have
more news about the ongoing Kiwi Radio Campaign.

We'll be back! Tell us what you want to see more of, just drop us an
email at info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, and if you've got story ideas and
audio, images, and radio memorabilia to share, we want to hear from
you today.

Enjoy, and remember to enter the new
Art of Radio Hawaii competition
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For now, enjoy our latest offerings at www.radioheritage.net, made
possible through donations from supporters all over the world. Thank
you again for helping keep radio history and heritage alive, and if
you'd like to make a donation yourself, just use your creditcard at
the donation button on any page at the website. We acknowledge every
gift.

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Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization
connecting popular culture and radio heritage across the Pacific. Now
almost 5 years online and welcoming more volunteers worldwide to join
our programs. Our global website: www.radioheritage.net. We currently
maintain our mailing lists manually and requests for removal will be
honored but are dependent on volunteer resources available at the
time. Sign up as a supporter today and let your friends and
colleagues know about us. 

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