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AbstractHistoryArchive Description
Type of Media
Radio
Access for Researchers
By appointment
Content Summary
- Notebook containing notes regarding outside radio broadcasts made during the Duke of Gloucester's visit to Melbourne, Bendigo and Geelong, Victoria, 1934
- Photograph and Christmas card showing interior and exterior views of radio station, VK-3LR, at Lyndhurst, Victoria, c1936
- List of all Victorian amateur radio operators ("ham" operators) together with their addresses and call signs, c1924
Comments
John Hargreaves worked for the Victorian Post Master General's Department and in 1934 he joined the Department's first short-wave broadcasting station VK-3LR at Lyndhurst, Victoria. In 1944 he was transferred to Shepparton, Victoria, where he remained until he retired in 1963 as supervising technician of Radio Australia, Shepparton.
Keywords
John Hargreaves, outside broadcasts, short-wave radio, VK-3LR, Victoria, PMG, Radio Australia
Contact Name
Mrs Joan Wishart
Address
Victoria
Phone and Fax
joanwishart@gmail.com
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Affiliation Notes
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