Wikibooks: History of wireless telegraphy and broadcasting in Australia/Topical/Publications/Australian Radio History/Vic AM Stations

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incomplete TOC right = Vic AM Stations = Victorian A.M. Radio Stations Part of the most comprehensive list ever compiled of Australian A.M. broadcasting stations. =13 Oct 1920 AWA Melbourne= Demonstration of music broadcasting by A.W.A. chairman Ernest Fisk to Members of Parliament in Melbourne’s Queens Hall at the request of Prime Minister The Rt. Hon. Billy Hughes. Weekly test broadcasts commenced three months later being heard up to 1 600 kilometres away. Their 500 watt Marconi transmitter was at the Brighton home of the A.W.A. manager Lionel Hooke. Lionel had previously accompanied Shackleton’s Polar expedition to Antarctica as the shipboard wireless operator. He was knighted in 1957 and appointed Chairman of A.W.A. after Ernest Fisk in 1962. =Jan 1921 3ME Melbourne= Experimental station owned by Sydney Neuman of A.W.A. Transmitter at Canterbury. First on longwave 273 KHz. (also see 2FC and 6WF) with weekly concerts then on medium wave 750 KHz. Became VK3ME on 7 9 1927 on shortwave a forerunner of Radio Australia to relay programs between stations for rebroadcast. The transmitter was co located with the 3LO transmitter at Braybrook. Programs came from a 3LO studio until 1929 then from an A.W.A. studio. The wavelength was often promoted as “35 yards” instead of the usual “32 metres”. All VK3ME programs started and ended with a kookaburra laugh which was continued by Radio Australia. Sydney Neuman also designed and installed the original transmitters for 4QG 7LA and 3SR and a new transmitter for 3LO. This callsign was reissued to an Arabic Middle Eastern station using 1638 kHz on 25 Oct 1996. =1921 3DP Melbourne= Experimental station owned by N. Culliver. Transmitter at Hawthorn. =1923 3JU Melbourne= Broadcast station owned by Ross Hull. Transmitter at St. Kilda. Ross was appointed Federal President of the Wireless Institute of Australia in 1924 and editor of the Wireless Weekly periodical in 1929. In 1938 he designed and built an experimental television transmitter and receiver. (Television was ...