One Sixty Metre Crossband Radio
By Mr Stu
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Podcast Description
An insight into a small group of Radio Hams in Melbourne who (since the 1970's) have conducted rambling and inane conversations until the early hours of the morning via complex multiplex radio connections that even the Oz Govt Radio Authorities have yet to figure out.
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Noah's Ark | The Branch gets a little mixed up when he tries to explain how the flood might have occured due to physical laws. (103min 30Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Crummy Sisters | Another hot sumer night hospital missions bit like "Ken in a box" but with some live reaction from the ward (43min 18meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sunset Boulevard | Toms Interesting experiences in LA, among other things (121min 50meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alligators | Classic Bek Stu missions from the naive period(92mins 38Meg) 1975 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4th Last Branch Missions | Another from the 1998 series (48 min 20meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Battery Valve 80 metre xband | Some interesting topics like the 3DB traffic plane crash come up on this 160/80 metre xband. The 80 metre end is from a battery valve set in Sth Gippsland, amazing how well it comes through.(46min 19Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Scruffy Nalities | Not an uninteresting missions from the mid 80's, quite good in fact apart from the first bit maybe.(103min 43Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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8 |
Babbagebocp | While doing a BOCP of the air the Mr k gets talking about Babbage and early putors (29 min 12meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cig Packets | Warning Smoking is a health hazard | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 |
Gerrymanda | Funny discussion on Quensland politcs of the 1970's, quite timely as "Joh" has just left us. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Night The Sky Fell In | This podcast is THE NIGHT THE SKY FELL IN recorded the night the skylab crashed. As you will hear people were ringing in to report bright lights in the sky and loud noises but the experts on the ABC were saying that they must be mistaken as the skylab was | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Xmas Xband | Not Much to do with xmas except it was recorded on xmas 1976. The Head talks about his trip to Alice Springs,and the Stu goes walking about the house with the radio mic, latter the Bek comes on via a tandy phone.(55 min 24Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Easter Storm | Recorded during a big storm some easter decades ago. Quite funny and has a spoken id at start. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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14 |
Byers | The Egg and his Byer tape recorders (7 min 3 meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Concrete | One of the best "scripted" crossbands. While talking to the Branch Mr Speedie finds a saw a cutting through his floor. A mass of concrete then fills the room. 1977 (1hr55 min 48 meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mock Ra | The Branch, Flinders and with the help of a few others have got control of the multi megawatt transmitters of Radio Australia and are troubled by the fact that when they put them on the lights around the state dim. (1 hour 15mins, 40 meg) From 1976 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Telephone Olympics | Useing the old black phones a competition on throwing the handset on to the hook. (6mins 5Meg) 1975 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life of Herb | A programe i put together in January 2005 just after Herb (vk3jo) passed on at age 93. One of the last people with experience from the early days of wireless. This contains interviews from 1994 and 2003 and off air recordings of mainly historical reminisc | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mud Houses | Mr Branch and Mike among other things talking about building mud houses and design and architecture, quite an interesting and sober session. 1978 (47 min 19meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Father John | The Maize takes some serious calls (20min 9Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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21 |
Traffic 1 | Some interesting log tapes from the much used vk3ase trunking system of the early 1980's(1hour32mins 44Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kilts Monitor Station | The Kilt designed and built a super monitoring station in one of the earths quiet zones.(42 mins 17Meg) from 1977 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2nd Last Branch Missions | This is the second last Branch missions from Oct 2003 and was the first time he was on since 1998. Incomming audio was via netmeeting and as you will hear the quality is no way as good as Skype. Dallas and the Bek join latter on. All these recent mission | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Telegalore | A big night with lots of talkback calls. 1975 (18min 7Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Codgutating with Egg pt2 | Goes for a while, good for a long train trip and i pod 1976 (1hr 52 min 47 meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Heads Party Night | We all went over to the normaly conservitive Dr Head and this very bad missions eventuated.(51mins 21Meg) 1980 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bonnie Back Yard | A hot summer night means Bonnie and Mr Branch have go to outside to the yard to escape the heat during a "hospital hour" with the Wick. 1976 (69 min 29 meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jim Payne | An afternoon crossband with the Branch and Agr.A listener drops in to find out how it all works. (67min 12Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Early Hams | Recordings of Aus hams in the 1940's,Gee they sound like a lot of gerryatrics but the fact is they were young men then. It was just the way people talked at that time (Righto old boy!). I like the bit where the guy says he has worked the band since 1928. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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1975 Political | Well would you belive it is 30 years since the dismissal?. This was recorded the night before the following election that was the product that event and things get quite heated(103mins 43Meg) 1975 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Squidly | Stu and Bek on the bad state of telecine operation 1985(16min 6Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Telescope | Another clasic Bek Stu missions from 1975, the Bek sounds quite fi on this one. (115min 46Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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5th Last Branch Missions | The first of the New Branch series from 1998 via a UHF link but it did not gain his interest as there was only three missions and we had to wait till 2003 till the next apperence. 1998 (77min 32meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Last Branch Missions 19/11/04 | This is the last Branch missions, i am sad to say there will be no more as he died in June 2006. Mr Branch was last on air from his Park St station in 1980, Occasionally he could be convinced to come on a live crossband and this is the last time it happen | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBBill Ceivers | Hear the real BBBill ceivers the man who made his own valve (7mins 1meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3rd Last Branch Missions | Last in the 1998 series from September that year, a Branch, Stu, Egg missions(71 min 29meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Russion Missions pt 1 | Mr Soak goes behind the iron curtian, Travelogue on trip to Russia in 1970.s(113min 47Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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History Of Glenhuntly | Very early Stu Bek missions and a difinitive description of Glenhuntly in 1975(62min 11Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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peg Phones | early Bek Stu Xband Find out why the peg phone got smashed.(1hour 4mins 33Meg) 1975 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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wartime in huntly | Stu and Bek discuss how wartime would have been like in down town Glenhuntly.(10mins 4Meg) 1976 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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84 Floors | The most requested missions ever. This time Speedie finds a steel trapdoor in the garden and goes down to investigate, he finds a massive industrial complex extending down and down and the secret lies on the last level..... 84. 1977 (2hr6 min 53 meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Visit from Syd | Syd a friend of the fish makes a visit during a crossband and gets a description of whats going on(19mins 7Meg) 1976 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Branch Tower Climb | A nice tour around the Branch shack and a climb up the unsafe tower(54min 22Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matters Report | Another rather juvenile early Stu Bek missions(60mins 25Meg) 1975 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Answer Tom | One of the best. A very funny rip off of the answer tom column in the old Radio Television And Hobbies mag (76min 36Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life And Times Of Jack Ferry | This Guy was only around for a while but quite amazing to listen to.(2hours 31 mins 68Meg) 1977 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charlies Wheel | Rather serious disscussion from the Bek and Branch,has some stuff on old TV programs From 1976 (113min 46Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Neese Straunts | A bit of a guide about finding good food places in St.kilda and Melbourne in general in the late 1970's. Branch Tom and others. (34min 14Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Grantly Dee | Branch and Bek talking about 1960's radio programing. Stax of wax and all that. (14min 6Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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You're So Vain | The title says it all (1h2m 26meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can You Speek | Short Missions with the Branch, Mr Stu and Egg from 1975(6.5 mins 2.6meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fish Shop | Bek Stu Missions about various subjects including the buzzing electric clock at the local fish shop. 1976 (95 min 40 meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Codgutating with Egg pt1 | Rather straight but not un interesting missions between Branch and the Egg 1976 (52 min 22 meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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D Cells | During an electricty strike when it is illegal to use more than two light bulbs and a toaster in each house, Mr Branch runs the missions off d cells (10min 4Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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First Egg Stu crossband | My First big power crossband missions with the egg.(23mins 9Meg) 1975 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mud Island | Comments on Beks trip to the isle of mud.(18mins 11Meg) 1988 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Veronica | Branch,Bek,and Stu missions from mid 70's. Bit of a rip off of Ms V White from the department (19min 8meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wetsdale Rings | Poor Mr Wetsdale has trouble getting through on the phone | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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More callback from Mr Wetsdale | Callbacks on social issues and Mr Wets as well (26min 11Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Russian Missions pt2 | Part 2 of above(68min 28Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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1975 Silvers Xmas Broadcast | This is the broadcast transmitted on xmas eve 1975. It resulted in a raid by the Silvers and a penalty into the bargin. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Egg Plants | The Egg has some trouble with wandering egg plants, sounds like triffid trouble.(63mins 25Meg) 1976 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bad Bek Mitters | Not a bad Bek Stu missions but the Beks mitters keeps wrecking 1976 (45 min 18 meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daylight Savings | Every time the daylight savings changeover happend we would try to ring the time service and hear the Gordon Gow glass disc announcement change | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Ideas | Mr Branch after a bit of politics describes all the grand ideas he had when he was younger(28mins 11Meg) 1976 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Boots Racecourse | Mr Boots kite flying tests cause some troubles with air 490, The police chopper(44min 869376Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mazie Phone Screams | Mr Maize is very good at playing with the off normal contacts and producing nice screams on the old step by step system(10 min 3 Meg) 1986 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TV Cabinets | Very funny missions, First the Bek is worried about walking home from the stu's in the middle of the night due to harassment from the constabulary then the rest of the time is taken up with the Egg and Stu discussing the art of TV cabinet watching. 1975 ( | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kimptons | A bit of a mess this one but quite a laugh, Egg Stu Bek and harry rings up a bit latter on. 1976 (45 min 23 meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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First Light Tests | The first modulated light beem coms from the stu's upstairs window and the Beks balcony conecting Sth Caulfield and Glenhuntly also features the Branch and the person we are not alowed to name. (5 min 2 meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Flash Away | Stu and Bek with the help of Peter Evens and Flash on the phone via an acatate recording. (57 min 24 meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nosey Vacume | More recent from early this century.Mr Nosey decides to vacume his room while on air(63min 26Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Last Park St Xband | The last real Branch missions from the Park St studios in 1980 featuring Mr K and the Stu talking about the Newport power station. (58 min 24meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Soak Cape York | Mr Soak talks about his travels around Australia(37min 15Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BTR90"s | More with the Egg and ancient tape machines 1976 (8 min 3 meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Last Park St Simplex | The last simplex with Mr Head and others from the Park St station 1980. (34 min 14meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Real Second Last Branch Missions 29/10/04 | While going through my discs i found this missions that i had forgot about and it is the first time the Branch came on via Skype. It goes for quite a while and has some good bits. Who knows we might even find some more. (1HR 30 min 57meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beks Trip To Sydney | A trip To Sydney for young Mr Bek, at the start bit of a time warp back 40 years (70 years now) from 1976 (85mins 36meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Part 2 of Mud Houses | Gets on to more general topics than pt 1 1978 (80 min 33 meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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History Of Branch Mitters | Mr Branch giving a description of the evolving nature of the transmission facilities.(12mins 5Meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Flinders ABC | The Flinders talks about his time when employed at the Australian Broadcasting Commission during the early 1970's(19mins 7Meg) 1976 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sick Of Missions | Played this recently on air and i have not heard it for a while but it is in the classic class,stu moaning about being sick of the missions after being on for 4 years.I think this would date back to about 1979. Quality is not the best as it is an of air r | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bottle Beacon | Early Stu Bek missions from 1975 discussing amongst other things the beacon on the mouth of the Elwood canal (It used to transmit on the 160 band and sounded like a bottle pouring) (27 min 11meg) | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ken In A Box | Ken does get out of the box after bit of a struggle, from one of the Bonnie missions hospital hours.(68mins 28Meg) 1976 | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 84 Episodes |
