[IRCA] Fwd: Pacific Radio Newsletter #3 August 2005

[Lynn Hollerman <lynn@xxxxxxxxx>]

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>****Pacific Radio News**** ****August 2005****
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>Wellington, New Zealand               No.3
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>1. Welcome to our growing number of readers this month, especially in
>Hawaii. Read on for more about how you can help our Art of Radio (c)
>Hawaii project. The Art of Radio (c) series are now the most popular
>of all stories at www.radioheritage.net, and we're expanding the
>series as fast as resources allow.
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>2. New stories already on-line include the amazing life of Pedro
>Gonzalez, a former Mexican bandit who became one of the greatest
>Tejano music stars in California, and his early days at KELW Burbank.
>You can also buy his CD of 1930's music classics from the link in the
>story.
>
>3. Another new story is that of the tiny community radio station at
>London, on Christmas Island in the central Pacific. Radio Christmas
>Island was built with an aid program several years ago, and Ron Ehrke
>who built the station tells us firsthand how it was done.
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>The Top 5 books for July at The Emporium Radio Heritage Store (c)
>on-line Top 40 Radio Book List are 1. The ARRL Handbook 2. Border
>Radio 3. Ham Radio for Dummies 4. Raised on Radio 5. Old Time Radio!
>Restoration and Repair. Every sale helps fund our activities.
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>4. The content on the home page is now being refreshed every few
>days, so keep the site bookmarked and visit often to keep up with new
>stories, photos and more. Headlining the month are a series of photos
>from WXLG Kwajalein taken in 1945 and proving that 'sharing the
>memories' can go back a long way.
>
>5. Other new items include the easy to use story index, the Top 10
>stories of the month [latest now on-line], an update for the massive
>4000+ station Pacific-Asian Log and a bright new logo so you can't
>miss it....and, birthday greetings to 3BA Ballarat in Australia and
>the 60th anniversary of the opening day of AKAA Radio in Japan in
>1945.
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>6. More Australian birthday wishes this month for the ABC's 7NT in
>Tasmania [70 years on the air], 4AK Oakey in Queensland [also a young
>70], 5AD Adelaide in South Australia came on air 75 years ago, as did
>7HO Hobart in Tasmania and 4BC Brisbane in Queensland. The oldest
>birthday is octogenarian 4GR Toowoomba in Queensland, celebrating 80
>years on air in August 2005.
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>The number of visitors to www.radioheritage.net continues to grow
>rapidly, with 15,000 visitors since going live at Christmas 2004, and
>some 220,000 hits, with visitors from 65 countries. Tell your friends!
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>7. The Emporium Radio Heritage Store (c) went live during the month.
>We have the Top 40 Radio book List and a range of gift packages to
>help raise funds for the project, as well as a growing number of
>other recommended books and CDs. The Book of the Month for August is
>'The Cash Cage' by Corey Deitz, an insider's look at the life of a DJ
>by this top rating veteran of US radio.
>
>8. Coming down the pipeline are a trilogy of stories about WVTR in
>Tokyo, and a special note from the guy who wrote the original script
>about the Japanese Sea Monster that terrorized Tokyo in 1947. As the
>whole 'Godzilla' phenomenon from Japan was based on this broadcast,
>you'll want to check www.radioheritage.net for this item!
>
>9 We need logos and letterheads from contemporary and now silent
>Hawaiian AM and FM radio stations! We've got a number of old time
>logos in some of our collections already, but to do justice to the
>Art of Radio (c) Hawaii, we'd like more. You can send them via
>snailmail to PO Box 14339, Wellington, New Zealand or via email to
>info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx There's a wealth of beauty in much of this
>radio art, and we'd like to share it. Mahalo and thanks.
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>Still to come on-line in the next little while are the second series
>of Long Lost Australian Radio Stars with 3MA Mildura, 5DN Adelaide
>and 7LA Launceston. We've also picked the third series already, and
>that covers 2HR Newcastle, 3CV Maryborough and 4WK Warwick. Check
>www.radioheritage.net regularly for these stories.
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>10. Thanks to the volunteers around the Pacific who're helping
>collect information about stations for us, others who are
>scanning magazines for radio station adverts to add to our image
>collection, others who have contacted us with stories, airchecks,
>video footage and more, and yet others who've volunteered to write
>stories about their stations for us. A special thanks to Bruce Carty
>of Radio Yesteryear in Australia for a detailed list of all
>Australian radio stations since 1919!
>
>11 More stories coming soon include Radio in Afghanistan [1970's],
>Armed Forces Radio in China-Burma-India during WWII, a detailed
>listing of early Australian AM radio [1919-1929] and New Zealand AM @
>a Glance [currently being formatted for the site], a photo gallery of
>WVUG Alaska in 1945, and a range of stories about Tokyo Rose, Manila
>Rose, Zero Hour, Japanese Occupation Radio Shonan and much more...
>
>12. We have an interesting project we'd like some volunteers to help
>us out with. It's a Shortwave Radio Guide to Asia and the Pacific,
>and is basically a shortwave version of the existing AM PAL Guide. If
>you can help research data on-line, co-ordinate material etc, we'd
>like to hear from you. You can be anywhere in the world! Write to
>info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and we'll get back to you with more details.
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>We're a registered non-profit organization and your support is
>helping this Pacific-wide project grow. You can now buy gift packages
>at The Emporium Radio HeritageStore (c) towards research time,
>software and storage materials, and all purchases from the Top 40
>Radio Book List help us raise funds. We have no financial support
>from any government or broadcaster. You can help us today.
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>Warmest regards to all our readers, supporters and volunteers. Thank
>you for helping make it happen! Please tell your friends, colleagues
>and others interested in radio about us. Visit www.radioheritage.net.
>
>David Ricquish
>Chairman
>Radio Heritage Foundation
>www.radioheritage.net

Lynn.
Lafayette, LA
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