THE HISTORY OF SHORTWAVE RADIO IN AUSTRALIA

1930 - AWA Radio Centre at Pennant Hills

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1800s - Land Telegraphy
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi - a Tribute
1895 - Wireless Telegraphy
1901 - Wireless Telegraphy
1902 - Wireless Telegraphy in Australia
1904 - Australian Coastal Radio
1906 - Wireless Telephony
1912 - Melbourne Radio - VIM
1914 - Shortwave Wireless Telephony
1920s - Commercial Shortwave Telephony Development
1920s - Receivers
1920 - The huge RCA Longwave Station in New York
1920 - Wireless broadcasting in Australia
1920s - First shortwave stations in Victoria
1921 - Discovery of Shortwave Propagation
1921 - Koo Wee Rup (Victoria) Experimental Wireless Receiving Station
1923- Longwave Broadcasting in Australia
1923 - Evolution of Australian Domestic Radio
1924 - 3LO - Melbourne's Second Broadcaster
1924 - 3AR - Melbourne's first broadcaster
1924 - The Braybrook (Melbourne) Transmitting Site
1925 - First Shortwave Stations in Western Australia
1926 - First Shortwave Stations in New South Wales
1926 - RAAF Communications - Laverton (Vic)
1927 - Beam Wireless Worldwide
1927 - Beam Wireless from Australia
1928 - ABC Lyndhurst (Victoria)
1930 - AWA Receiving Station at La Perouse (Sydney)
1930 - AWA Radio Centre at Pennant Hills
1933 (to 1969) - Shortwave Radio Clubs in Australia
1936 - Ship Broadcaster - the MS Kanimbla
1939 - Belconnen Communications Station (Canberra)
1940 - RAAF Receiving Station at Werribee (Victoria)
1941 - RAAF Frognall (Melbourne)
1941 - ABC Brisbane
1942 - Army Wireless Chain - west of Melbourne
1942 - Dutch Stations in Australia
1943 - ABC Radio Australia - Shepparton (Victoria)
1943 - Army Shortwave HF Stations in Melbourne
1944 - ABC - Radio Australia - Looking Back
1945 - PMG Receiving Station - Highpark (Victoria)
1945 - Radio Australia - DXers Calling
1946 - Radio Australia - Communications Programs
1946 - VNG Time Signal Station
1948 - Radio Australia QSL Cards
1948 - ABC Sydney
1966 - ABC Cox Peninsula (Darwin)
1970 (to 2012) - Shortwave Radio Clubs in Australia
1975 - ABC Gnangara (Western Australia)
1975 - ABC Carnarvon (Western Australia)
1978 - Omega Navigation Station - Woodside (Victoria)
1985 - ABC Northern Territory
1989 - ABC Brandon (Queensland)
2003 - Private Shortwave Broadcasters
Timeline - Part One - 1839 to 1927
Timeline - Part Two - 1928 to 2012
SPECIAL - Licencing of Shortwave Broadcasters
SPECIAL - Radio Receivers for Shortwave
SPECIAL - Radio Monitoring as a Hobby
Epilogue
Bibliography, References and Resources
Links to the author's personal websites

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1930 - Pennant Hills mast

AWA Pennant Hills Transmitting Centre

1930
One of the earliest commercial wireless stations in Australia, AWA Radio Centre, Pennant Hills, near Sydney, at the time was the largest and most modern of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.

The chief functions of the Centre comprised the

Beam Feeder Transmitters, operating with Melbourne

The Coastal Radio Transmitters, communicating with Rabaul, Fiji and Noumea, and also with Adelaide, Perth, Townsville and Brisbane

Sydney Radio short-wave long-distance transmitters communicating with ships at sea

The ordinary 600 and 800 metre marine transmitters

The NSW Police Transmitter, keeping police headquarters in touch with the Police Patrol Cars

The 5 kW Broadcast Transmitters of Broadcasting Station 2FC

The Trawler Transmitter for communication with trawlers operating on the NSW coast

In addition, AWA Radio Centre, Pennant Hills, housed the shortwave broadcasting transmitters for overseas broadcasting to England, Canada and the United States, for relaying in those countries.

Whilst the whole of the above transmitting functions were carried out by AWA Radio Centre, Pennant Hills, the actual operating of the various units is actuated by "remote control" from various parts of Sydney, and also from La Perouse.

The AWA designed and manufactured 20 kW oil-cooled transmitter used for Empire and world-wide shortwave broadcasting and overseas telephony, is also installed at Radio Centre, Pennant Hills. The whole of the transmitters at this station were designed and manufactured by AWA.

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1930 - Pennant Hills 20 kW SW transmitter

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