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Australian radio folks, particularly those in traffic, I need your help. Trying to source a radio spot for Allianz Insurance which has a guy in a chinese accent starting his spiel with “Teenager don’t want tape deck with a headphone, they want boombox for shoulder”. I can’t find it *anywhere*. If you can, get in touch.… Thanks!! Probably last on air in 2007, not sure.

Last thursday I felt like I wanted a day out of stuff – that meant everything, including giving up doing audio for the day. I felt like for a while I was becoming a slave AND a bit of a hermit, so where else to go for a radio techy nut like me? Yes folks, Homebush Bay in Sydney, home of not only the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games but also home to five Sydney AM radio transmitter towers!

These towers seem to be scattered all around the site, and after checking things out against google earth and the info of where each transmitter was located from ACMA publications, I set out with iPhone in tow (with trusty 3 megapixel camera on board) wanting to get a few photos.

It’s a bit of a hike and so far I got the equivalent of one photo but I was amazed at its quality and I thought I should share it with you. The tower in this photo is situated not far from 15 Hill Rd down there and belongs to 2KY/Sky Sports Radio. I had my AM walkman with me tuned to 2GB and as I got closer to this tx, all I could hear was Sky Sports Radio – no matter where I tuned on the AM band. Gotta love that splatter!

Next trek will be to go out there again and get photos of the shared 2UE/2SM transmitter tower which is probably a kilometre or so away from 2KY/Sky Sports Radio’s one. Then from there to continue in that direction and take Burroway Rd and head as close as possible to Wentworth Point, which houses the radio 2GB transmitter tower. Unfortunately there’s either a construction site or something involving trucks behind fences there and I doubt I’m gonna be able to get up close to it for a good photo but I’ll do what I can.

I’ve often wondered about writing to Broadcast Australia/TX Australia and mention I’m right into all this stuff and would love to see the equipment that’s housed in a transmitter hut. Viewing and taking photos of the tower is one thing, but it would be awesome to gain permission to enter a hut and get some photos. Anyway, here’s 2KY’s tower in all its glory.

G’day folks,

Well it’s that time where we have to clear the server and do a reset to make way for newer material!

If you haven’t downloaded what you need yet, grab it before Monday June 21st 2010 12.01 am. On this date all existing material will be deleted and a fresh update will be in place.

Go for it folks!

NO!!!

Adriana Xenides has passed away. I first heard about on 2GB during Jason Morrison’s show, and then googled it where some on twitter are posting about it. 2GB then followed it up with a story on the 6pm news bulletin.

Damnit…she was one of my favourites. RIP Adriana.

Also RIP to the security guard who was shot this morning in Sydney’s CBD while guarding a cash pickup/delivery truck. Absolute bastards. Guy goes to work, and never returns home because of some absolute lunatic.

G’day folks,

Coming soon to this section of this site are many and varied commercials for Holden and associated bits ‘n’ pieces which were dubbed from 16mm film. Earlier this evening I was granted permission to put them up, and in the next update you’ll see some of them!

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G’day folks,

I just HAD to let you in on this one. Thanks to the guys and gals of the Facebook group “Overheard in the control room…”.

Zimbabwean television continuity announcer proudly declared one night on air: “…and now, we are going to see the fuck up”. On the screen however were the words “F.A.Cup“. (read by announcer as FA Cup, sounding then like fuck up).

HAHAHA! I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time!

G’day wordpressers,

It’s a little known fact that sometimes I enjoy sitting in front of the computer and spending a couple of hours making my own remixes of songs. Because of various laws in place they’re not quite for distribution, but more for personal listening purposes.

However, I’m getting sick of making all these wonderful remixes, and not having an outlet to put them onto for fear of being shut down. So tonight, come what may.

To that end, I’d love you to take a listen to this – this was edited and remixed in under an hour, and it’s my version of Elton John’s “Kiss the bride”. Many and varied edits in this, but I had a ball cutting it together, and I hope you’ll have just as much fun listening to it.

Oh if I only I could afford the appropriate licences…*sighs*…

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..and more of me having a chat into a tape deck in 1997!

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G’day WordPressers,

Before podcasting, I used to pick up a portable tape deck and just talk about nothing into it. I did it fairly regularly too and amassed a few tapes of me just talking about different things.

So out of the Frankster vault comes this gem I recorded on May 6th and May 10th, 1997 – edited, and “sanitised for your protection”.

64 kbps, 22 kHz, 1.2 MB

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G’day WordPressers,

A mega HUGE thankyou to both Alan and Wazza for the clip below – this is a medley of jingles from 3XY’s “XY Zoo” days! Yay! They’ve been found at last.

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