One Sixty Metre Crossband Radio

Funny discussion on Quensland politcs of the 1970's, quite timely as "Joh" has just left us.

Every time the daylight savings changeover happend we would try to ring the time service and hear the Gordon Gow glass disc announcement change

Warning Smoking is a health hazard

Recordings of Aus hams in the 1940's,Gee they sound like a lot of gerryatrics but the fact is they were young men then. It was just the way people talked at that time (Righto old boy!). I like the bit where the guy says he has worked the band since 1928. Also interesting to hear what their rigs sounded like then. Includes an intorduction from Ivor MOrgan who made the recordings at the start of the file.

Toms Interesting experiences in LA, among other things (121min 50meg)

Another hot sumer night hospital missions bit like "Ken in a box" but with some live reaction from the ward (43min 18meg)

Early Stu Bek missions from 1975 discussing amongst other things the beacon on the mouth of the Elwood canal (It used to transmit on the 160 band and sounded like a bottle pouring) (27 min 11meg)

While doing a BOCP of the air the Mr k gets talking about Babbage and early putors (29 min 12meg)

While going through my discs i found this missions that i had forgot about and it is the first time the Branch came on via Skype. It goes for quite a while and has some good bits. Who knows we might even find some more. (1HR 30 min 57meg)

This is the last Branch missions, i am sad to say there will be no more as he died in June 2006. Mr Branch was last on air from his Park St station in 1980, Occasionally he could be convinced to come on a live crossband and this is the last time it happened in November 2004. The Branch was on via Skype and the wik on Eccolink.(65 min 27meg)

This is the second last Branch missions from Oct 2003 and was the first time he was on since 1998. Incomming audio was via netmeeting and as you will hear the quality is no way as good as Skype. Dallas and the Bek join latter on. All these recent missions have not been put up before as frankly i did not concider them all that interesting, but now as they are the last in a long line there is some appeal. 2003 (2H26min 61meg)

Last in the 1998 series from September that year, a Branch, Stu, Egg missions(71 min 29meg)

Another from the 1998 series (48 min 20meg)

The first of the New Branch series from 1998 via a UHF link but it did not gain his interest as there was only three missions and we had to wait till 2003 till the next apperence. 1998 (77min 32meg)

The last simplex with Mr Head and others from the Park St station 1980. (34 min 14meg)