THE HISTORY OF SHORTWAVE RADIO IN AUSTRALIA

Bibliography, References and Resources

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Project Overview
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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Acknowledgement is extended to the many and diverse sources and organizations which were consulted in the compilation of this Project.

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Principal references include:
Newspapers
The Melbourne Argus
The Melbourne Age
Trove Digitized Newspapers


Books and Publications
Transmitter Documentation Project
The Constant Voice - Radio Australia 30th anniversary 1939-1969
Broadcasting and the Australian Post Office 1923-1973
The ARRL Handbook
How to Listen to the World
The Wireless Weekly magazine
Radio and Hobbies magazine
Radio TV and Hobbies magazine
Electronics Australia magazine
Ther World Radio and TV Handbook
Passport to Worldband Radio
Klingenfuss Publications
History of AWA
Wireless Progress in Australia (AWA Publication 1930)
Australia Calls the World (1972)
Popular Commumications Magazine
From Spark to Satellite : a history of radio communication (by Stanley Leinwoll) (1979)
Something in the air : a history of radio in Australia (by Colin Jones) (1995)

Libraries 
Shire of Hume
Booroondara City Council
Melton Shire Council
Shire of Whitehorse
Shire of Wyndham
Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation
 
Multimedia
You Tube
Google Earth
Wikepedia
Google Maps
Radio Heritage Foundation
Thanks for Listening - the History of Australian Radio (2007) - DVD
 
Heritage Image Collections
Aussie Heritage
Picture Australia
State Library of New South Wales
State Library of Victoria
Australian War Memorial
RAAF Museum Point Cook
 
Miscellaneous
Wireless Institute of Australia
Telstra
Australian Post Office (Postmaster-General's Department)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian DX Club
Australian Radio DX Club
International Telecommunications Union
Broadcast Australia

 

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