Looking Back - 1939 to 2011 - the Autobiography of Robert V. J. Padula, OAM

1967 - Australian Radio DX Club Photo Gallery (to 1979)

Home
1941 - Bikes and Cars
1943 - Hiking - Hills and Coasts
1944 - Growing up in the War Years - Part 1
1944 - Growing up in the War Years - Part 2
1944 - Growing up in the War Years - Part 3
1945 - Auburn schooldays - Part One
1945 - Auburn Schooldays - Part Two
1945 - Auburn Schooldays - Part Three
1945 - Upwey and the Puffing Billy
1945 - Gramaphones and Record Players
1946 - Flinders St Station
1946 - Astronomy
1946 - Beach and Swimming Adventures
1946 - Going to the Pictures
1947 - Adventures at the Altona Bungalow
1947 -The Listener-In Magazine
1947 - Balwyn WIldlife Sanctuary
1948 - Fishermen's Bend Aerodrome
1948 - Radio Australia QSL cards
1948 - Excursions
1949 - Australian Rules Football
1949 - Radio Monitoring at Auburn
1950 -Trains and Ships
1950 - Radios for Communications
1950 - Radio Listening Clubs in Australia
1950 - World Radio TV Handbook
1950 - Shortwave Radio Propagation Research
1950 - Medium Wave Radio Propagation Research
1950 - Radio and Hobbies Magazines
1950 - Discovering shortwave radio at Auburn
1951 - Photography
1951 - Competitions on local radio stations
1952 - Camp Buxton - YMCA Shoreham
1952 Tennis and Ten Pin Bowling
1953 - Stamp Collectiong
1953 Camberwell High School
1954 - Royal Visit to Melbourne
1954 - Shortwave Radio reception at Auburn
1956 - Melbourne's Olympic Games
1956 - Trainee Telecommunications' Technician
1957 - Trainee Technician - field work
1957 - National Service Registration
1958 - Laverton Air Show
1958 - MOOMBA Parade
1958 - Trainee Technician - field work
1959 - The move to Mont Albert
1960 - Working at Deepdene Telephone Exchange
1963 - Trade Unions, Staff Associations, Industrial Relations
1964 - Senior Technician work in the Melbourne CBD
1964 - Project support for Radio Australia
1964 - Amateur Radio
1964 - Media Writing
1964 -Travels
1964 - Engineering Support for International Broadcasters
1965 - Professional Employment with PMG/Telstra
1967 - Professional Qualifications - Institution of Engineers Australia
1967 - Australian Radio DX Club Photo Gallery (to 1979)
1972 - Wireless Institute of Australia
1972 - Natural disasters in Melbourne
1980 - Australian Radio DX Club Gallery (to 1995)
1981 - Award of the Medal of the Order of Australia
1995 - Padula Books
EPILOGUE
LINKS TO AUTHOR'S PERSONAL WEBSITES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEPENDENT BIOGRAPHIES
SPECIAL CHAPTER - Oldtime Australian Radio Drama from the 1930s
SPECIAL CHAPTER - Radio Monitoring Clubs in Australia - 1920 to 1949
SPECIAL CHAPTER - Melbourne Picture Theatres - History - 1906 to 1970

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1971 - members demolishing our old garage at Mont Albert! L-R: me, Rob James,Russell James,Ray Roche

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1971 Melbourne members at Starling Gap excursion

AUSTRALIAN RADIO DX CLUB GALLERY 1967-1979
 
These pictures are a very small sample from my private albums, taken in the period 1967 to 1979.
 
A companion Gallery covers the years 1980-1995
 
They show  many of the member activities in which I participated, of the Australian Radiio DX Club, which included the national Conventions, meetings in Melbourne and other places, some outside of Victoria, field monitoring weekends to rural locations away from Melbourne and social trips to State and Regional Parks close to Melbourne. 

Candid Camera images of individual members are included, as taken on some of those excursions! 
 
There are photos taken on two trips to the PMG's High Park Receivng Station, near Kilmore, in 1971 and 1984. The facility was closed down in the late 1980s.
 
 

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1971 PMG's High Park Receiving Station, north of Melbourne

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1971 PMG's High Park Receiving Station, north of Melbourne

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1974 You Yangs State Park, west of Melbourne, picnic

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1974 You Yangs State Park, west of Melbourne, picnic

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1977 ARDXC Meetibng, Mont Albert

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1977 ARDXC Meeting, Mont Albert

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1972 Sydney Convention

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1977 November ARDXC Meeting, Highett

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1978 ARDXC Convention, Canberra, TIdbinbilla Space Tracking Station

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1972 Sydney Convention

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1978 Canberra Convention

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1967 Melbourne meeting - L to R: R.Shepherd,I. Hodgson,G.Thomson, I.Stanley, A.Stark,T.McMahon(rear)

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1978 Canberra Convention

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1971 Convention - Rob Wagner, Peter Curran, Peter Jensen

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1975 Robert Hanner

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1967 Ian Hodgson, Medium Wave Editor, Melbourne

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1967 Adelaide - J. Ross, T. Wege, B.Lane

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1967 Sydney - B. Lane, C. Martin

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1967 Melbourne - Tony McMahon

1974 - Robert Hanner, Alps trip
1974 - Robert Hanner - Alps monitoring trip

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1975 Robert Hanner - Alps monitoring trip

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1975 - Robert Hanner - Alps Monitoring Trip

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`1972 - Cowes - David Foster, George Graham, monitoring trip

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1972 - Cowes monitoring trip - Davd Fioster, George Graham

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1973 - Flinders Is monitoring trip - George Graham and David Foster

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1973 - Flinders Is monitoring trip - G. Graham, D. Foster

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1973 - Flinders Is monitoring trip - David Foster

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1973 - Flinders Island monitoring trip - David and George

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1974 - Inverloch monitoring trip - Robert James

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1972 - Russell James

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1975 - June - Rob Wagner on our monitoring trip - Glen Wills

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1974 - Mt Buller radio trip - Robert Hanner,Nicholas Langmaid

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1974 - Mt Buller radio trip (that's the author!)

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