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May 31
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Picture of the breached Moehne Dam in The Sphere, May 1943
Picture of the breached Moehne Dam, May 17, 1943
This picture appeared in The Sphere magazine,
in the May 29, 1943 edition.
It shows a breach in the Moehne Dam on the Ruhr,
following an attack by the RAF 617 Squadron using
Barnes Wallace's "Bouncing Bomb" -- made famous
in the 1954 movie The Dam Busters.
The attack occurred on the night of the 16th and 17th
of May, 1943. The picture shown below was taken on
the 17th of May by a reconnaissance aircraft.
The breach in the dam wall is about 200 feet wide,
and is indicated on the picture. A power station
below the dam was destroyed.
Moehne Dam (breached) May17,1943
Photo of the breached Moehne Dam, May 17, 1943.
The next photo, taken by Eigene Aufnahme, shows the Moehne Dam
as it appeared in 2004.
Moehne Dam 2004. Photo by Eigene Aufnahme
The Moehne Dam in 2004. Photo taken by Eigene Aufnahme.
May 29
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Australia signs draft treaty to ban use of cluster bombs
Australia has signed a draft treaty to ban the use of cluster bombs.
The draft text, to be ratified in Norway in December (2008), will outlaw
the use of most types of cluster bombs, and will commit the signatories
of the treaty to destroy their stockpiles of cluster bombs within 8 years.
Over 100 countries attended the conference in Dublin, and the draft
treaty has emerged after 10 days of vigorous debate amongst the
delegates.
Countries who did not sign the draft agreement include the United States,
Israel, Russia, China, India, and Pakistan.
Australian Defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon (pictured below), said the
proposed treaty is a "great step forward in humanitarian terms".
Small unexploded bomblets can act like landmines, and pose a deadly
threat to civilians, months, or even years after the cluster bombs have
been dropped.
The picture below shows hundreds of explosions from cluster bomblets
released from a single larger bomb, and the second picture shows the
Australian Defence Minister, Joel Fitzgibbon.
Cluster bomblets exploding.
An aerial view of deadly cluster bomblets exploding.
All these bomblets were released from a single larger bomb.
Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian Defence Minister
The Australian Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon.
May 28
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Red Rooster stores give seniors 20% discount
Red Rooster is a fully owned Australian company, with
over 360 stores around Australia, and employing about
5000 staff.
They offer a 20% discount to anybody in possession of
a Seniors card.
This means that a Rooster Roll normally priced at $5.20,
is reduced to $4.15.
In the Canberra area, there is a Red Rooster store at
Belconnen on the north side, and Wanniassa on the south
side.
There is also a store at Queanbeyan, just over the border.
The picture below shows section of a Rooster Roll wrapper,
and the second picture shows the Red Rooster store at
Wanniassa.
Inside the Wanniassa store, there is an interesting wall
mounted photo showing the old Parliament House (in Canberra )
under construction.
The photo would have been taken around 1926.
Red Rooster
Red Rooster Wanniassa store. Photo copyright © 2008 John Barnes
The Red Rooster store at Wanniassa in Tuggeranong (Canberra ).
Photo copyright © 2008 John Barnes
This final photo shows the view directly opposite the Wanniassa Red Rooster
store.
Here we see part of the Wanniassa shopping centre and carpark.
The gum tree in the foreground with the dense crown appears to have
had its top section pruned.
tree opposite the Red Rooster store. Photo copyright © 2008 John Barnes
A view of the Wanniassa shopping centre carpark directly opposite the Red Rooster store,
looking across Rylah Crescent.
Photo copyright © 2008 John Barnes.
Wanniassa's Java connection
"Wanniassa" is not derived from an Aboriginal word.
It comes from Wanniassa Station, which was established
in the area in the 1830's, and named after a district
in Java (Indonesia) called Wanajassa.
Speaking of Java..... you can listen to the 1964 song
"Java Jones" (by Donna Lynn ) here - (it's the ginchiest ). 
May 24
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Betty Underwood - actress, 1948 to 1950......
Betty Underwood was a dark haired beauty who appeared
in only 9 movies between 1948 and 1950.
Her last movie seems to have been the 1950 'B Grade' western
"Storm Over Wyoming" starring Tim Holt.
After that, she seems to have vanished into the ether.
I was unable to find a biography on Betty Underwood, but
she would have been born around 1925 to 1930.
The picture below shows her in a scene from "Storm Over
Wyoming", where she played the role of "Ruby", a dance
girl at the Silver Dollar Casino in the Wyoming town of Sundown.
Posted under the category of "People".
Betty Underwood 1950
Betty Underwood in "Storm over Wyoming" (1950).
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28 ABC broadcasting stations of the NBS in 1940.
In 1940, there were 26 medium wave broadcasting stations in
the National Broadcasting System of the Australian Broadcasting
Commission (ABC).
There were also 2 shortwave stations - VLR at Lyndhurst in
Victoria, and VLW in Perth, Western Australia.
Below is an extract from the Official Year Book of the Commonwealth
of Australia for the year 1940 (page 171), under "Radio Telegraphy
and Telephony".
The cost of an Australian broadcast listener's licence in 1940 was
21shillings. (15 shillings in remote areas ).
The total number of Broadcast Listener's Licences issued in Australia
in 1939 was 1,129,786.
In comparison, only 61,000 Australian broadcast listener's licences
were issued in 1925.
The medium wave stations listed are as follows -
2FC, 2BL Sydney
2NC Newcastle
2CO Corowa
2NR Lawrence
2CR Cumnock
2CY Canberra
3LO, 3AR Melbourne
3GI Sale
3WV Dooen
4QR, 4QG Brisbane
4QN Townsville
4QS Dalby
4RK Rockhampton
5CL, 5AN Adelaide
5CK Crystal Brook
6WF, 6WN Perth
6WA Minding
6GF Kalgoorlie
7ZR, 7ZL Hobart
7NT Kelso
The 28 transmitting stations of the ABC in 1940.
May 22
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"Bels44"- 200Kw LF transmitter for submarine communications
200KW submarine transmitter, Belconnen Naval Station, Canberra.
During the Second World War, there was only one transmitting station
in Australia that could send messages to submerged submarines.
It was code-named "Bels44", and was located at the Belconnen Naval
Transmitting Station in Canberra, officially designated "Bels" (for Belconnen).
It was a high-powered Low Frequency transmitter operating on a frequency
of 44 Kilohertz, hence the code-name "Bels44".
Note - Even though the town centre of Belconnen (in Canberra), was not
gazetted until 1966, the Naval Station was known as the Belconnen Naval
Station from its very inception in 1939.
Low frequencies have the ability to penetrate seawater, and the lower the
frequency, the greater the depth of penetration.
"Bels44" operated in the Low Frequency (LF) radio spectrum, which covers
the frequency range of 30 Kilohertz to 300 Kilohertz.
At a frequency of 44 Kilohertz, "Bels44" was operating at the lower end of
the LF band, thereby giving it reasonable signal penetration to partially
submerged submarines.
The 200 Kilowatt transmitter was designed by STC (Standard Telephones
and Cables ), and employed water-cooled valves (electron tubes).
Messages to submarines were transmitted in encrypted morse code.
(The use of audio in the LF band is impractical ).
At radio frequencies, a basic law of physics dictates that the lower
the frequency, the longer the wavelength, and the higher the frequency,
the shorter the wavelength.
In the LF band, wavelengths are measured in Kilometres rather than
metres. At 300 Kilohertz, the wavelength is 1 Kilometre, but at 30
Kilohertz, the wavelength increases to 10 Kilometres !
This long wavelength is ideal for penetrating seawater, but it presents
a problem for antenna designers at these low frequencies.
In a nutshell, the higher the frequency, the shorter the antenna
required to efficiently radiate a signal at any given frequency.
This means that transmitters operating in the Low Frequency band
require rather large antennas, and this was quite obvious at the
Belconnen transmitting station, where three towers, each 600 feet
high, could be seen from many miles away.
The three towers were designated "44A", "44B", and "44C".
A long-wave aerial array was strung between the 3 towers, and
the east-west alignment of the array, was designed to give maximum
radiation towards the Indian and Pacific oceans.
"Bels44" was designed specifically for transmitting to submarines,
but the 44 Kilohertz signal could also be received by surface vessels
equipped with a Low Frequency receiver.
Normally, transmissions to surface vessels were carried out in the
High Frequency (shortwave) band, using the frequency range of 3 to
30 Megahertz.
The Belconnen Naval Transmission Station was officially opened in
1939 - just in time for the start of World War II .
High Frequency (shortwave ) transmissions from Belconnen began
in that year, but the high-powered submarine transmitter did not
commence full operation until 1941, and continued to operate for
the next 54 years, until 1995, when it was finally decommissioned.
In 1939, the Naval Receiving Station, HMAS Harman near Queanbeyan,
also began operation. It was located 11 miles from the transmitting
station.
Both the transmitting station at Belconnen and the Receiving Station at
HARMAN, operated in conjunction with the large UK naval facility at
Rugby in England.
From 1942 onwards, "Bels44" would have been transmitting to American
submarines as well as British and Australian subs.
The 'head honchos' in Signals Intelligence Monitoring in Germany (and
especially in Japan), would have been well aware of the existence of
"Bels44" by mid 1942, but there was absolutely nothing they could do
to silence it. Canberra was totally beyond their reach !
Had the Naval Transmitting Station been located in Darwin, it would have
been a sitting target for Japanese bombers during the series of air raids
on Darwin between 1942 and 1943. "Bels44" would have been put out of
action for the duration of the war !
The transmitter was gradually upgraded between 1959 and 1961, and
resulted in the water-cooled electron tubes being replaced by air-cooled
tubes, and the RF output power being increased from 200 to 250 Kilowatts.
Even though "Bels44" was decommissioned in 1995, the three towers
remained standing until December 2006.
The first two pictures are courtesy of DEWHA (Department of the
Environment, Water, Heritage, and the Arts ). The photographer
was Dragi Markovic.
In the first picture, we see one of the towers at Belconnen (and
associated buildings).
The second picture is a close-up of a former tuning hut, which, after
the decommissioning of "Bels44", was used as a chemical storage shed !
Belconnen Naval Transmitting Station antenna
A view of the Belconnen Naval Transmission Station
with one of the "Bels44" antennas in the foreground.
Photo by Dragi Markovic of DEWHA.
This former tuning hut has been converted into a "chemical store".
The purpose of the tuning hut was to 'tune' the impedance of the
transmission line from the transmitter building, to the impedance of the
antenna, using large adjustable tuning coils inside the hut.
This picture shows the three "Bels44" antennas being disassembled in December
2006 - 11 years after the "Bels44" transmitter had been decommissioned.
Photo by Peter Ellis.
Footnote -
I first heard about the 200 Kilowatt Low Frequency transmitter in the early
1960's from Fred Lubeck, the man in charge of the (now demolished) PMG
Radio Telegraphy Station at Capalaba, south of Brisbane.
(A Radio Inspector's office was located at the other end of the building,
and their primary function was to check the operating frequency of all
radio and TV stations in the Brisbane area ).
Fred had worked at the Belconnen Naval Station, and had been involved
in the operation and maintenance of the 200 Kilowatt STC transmitter.
At the time of its construction in the late 1930's, it was 'leading edge'
technology, and the most powerful Low Frequency transmitter in the
Southern Hemisphere.
We may never know how vital a role "Bels44" played during the Second
World War, but given the technology of the time, I'm sure it was a case
of "Hells Bels" for the Axis powers !
May 21
From:   The_-Airman (Original Message)
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Despite being almost the size of the United States (not counting
Alaska ), Australia has only six States, and 2 Territories.
[The US is 'broken up' into about 50 States].
Having only 6 States (as opposed to 50), is generally regarded
as a BIG PLUS, as it greatly reduces the overall number of politicians,
red tape, overlapping of Government departments, and cost to
the "public purse".
Just imagine the congestion at Parliament House in Canberra if we
had 50 States!
The new Parliament House (opened in 1988 ) would have to be
quadrupled in size just to accommodate all the Representatives
and Senators!
The map below shows the 6 States and the Northern Territory.
The Australian Capital Territory, located inside the State of New
South Wales is not shown.
Western Australia is the largest State, and the island of
Tasmania is the smallest State.
The capital of Australia, Canberra, is located in the Australian
Capital Territory, and is administered by a Legislative Assembly,
as is the Northern Territory.
Map of Australia showing the six States, and the Northern Territory.
Originally posted by The Airman on Australia The Land Down Under
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Reconciliation News No.11 - May 2008
Reconciliation News is produced 3 times per year by
Reconciliation Australia, based in the Old Parliament
House, on King George Terrace, in Canberra.
This is the cover of the latest issue ( No.11 ).
It has 28 pages and 32 colour photos.
Reconciliation News May 2008
May 16
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"Carbon Footprint" - a work of art by John Barnes
"Carbon Footprint" - artwork by John Barnes, 2008.
This piece of artwork was produced by walking barefoot
in coal soot located along the railway line near Queanbeyan
Railway Station, and then impressing a coal-dusted footprint
on a sheet of A4. It had been raining at the time, so the soot
was wet, and it was relatively easy to produce the 'footprint'.
This is a genuine 'carbon footprint', as the coal soot consists
mainly of Amorphous carbon.
The small amount of soot near the railway line came from an
old (coal powered ) steam train operated by the Australian
Railway Historical Society.
The train makes occassional runs from Kingston to Bungendore
during the winter months.
The price of a return ticket is $40 per adult.
Carbon footprint copyright © 2008 John Barnes
"Carbon Footprint" by John Barnes
May 13
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DDT advert from 1946 - manufactured by Du Pont.
DDT - (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane).
DDT advert from 1946, showing a bottle of
Du Pont 5% DDT insect spray for household use.
(There was also a 5% DDT powder available ).
At the bottom of the advert, the Du Pont slogan reads -
"Better things for better living .......... through chemistry ".
The contents of the 5 percent DDT insect spray was poured
from the bottle into a hand operated 'fly sprayer'.
Later on, the DDT spray became available in an aerosol can.
DDT advert 1946
In 1946, Du Pont was only one of about 15 chemical companies licensed
to manufacture DDT in the USA.
The demand for the new pesticide had come from the US Army, after
entering WW2 in the early 1940's.
The new 'wonder' chemical was needed for US soldiers fighting in
Europe to combat typhus, a killer disease spread by body lice.
Soldiers in a high risk typhus zone were given a good spraying
of DDT to kill the lice on their bodies and in their clothing. This
was known as "delousing".
Typhus was one of the biggest killers in places such as concentration
camps, where large numbers of people were 'bundled' together in
squalid conditions without adequate food, sanitation, washing facilities,
or medical care.
The German method of controlling typhus-bearing lice in clothing and
personal belongings was fumigation. It was very effective in the
delousing of furs and leather goods as well as 'regular' clothing materials.
The fumigant, hydrogen cyanide, was released from 'carrier' granules
using the trade name of Zyklon B.
(DDT was not generally available in Germany at that time).
The problem with the fumigation process is that it required sealed
fumigation chambers, and for effective results, the chamber had to
be equipped with a fan to provide circulation and venting, plus a device
for heating the circulating air.
The higher the temperature inside the chamber, the quicker the hydrogen
cyanide was released from the Zyklon pellets.
[It should be noted that fumigation is by no means "yestreday's technology".
In Australia today, fumigation chambers are used in a wide variety of
commercial applications, including the fumigation of fruits and vegetables,
timber products, and cut flowers (for export ).
Fumigants in common use include Methyl Bromide, Phosfume, and Ethylene
Dibromide (to be phased out ). Hydrogen Cyanide is still in use, but only in
specialised applications] .
Due to the high cost of fumigation, it comes as no surprise to be informed
that used clothing available from Australia's largest charities such as The Salvation
Army (Salvos Stores), and St. Vincent De Paul Society (Family Centre Stores),
is not fumigated before being hung up on clothing racks in their stores, so
it's a case of "buyer beware" if you wear the used clothes without first giving
them a thorough wash in your own washing machine !
DDT was also needed by the US Army in the Pacific arena of the war
to combat malaria, spread by mosquitoes.
After the war, DDT became one of the main agricultural insecticides,
as it would kill a wide variety of crop-eating insects and other
troublesome bugs.
However, it was later revealed that DDT had undesirable biological
effects in humans and other animals, and by 1972 it had been banned
as an agricultural spray in the United States.
It was banned in Australia in 1978.
Du Pont is one of the world's major chemical companies.
It was founded by Eleuthere du Pont in the State of Delaware in 1802,
originally as a gunpowder manufacturer.
The company discontinued manufacturing DDT in 1954 because
the manufacturing process was proving to be unprofitable !
May 08
A 1915 manual telephone exchange Switchboard.
This is a picture of a 1915 central battery (CB )manual Switchboard .
At the time, it was 'leading edge' technology, replacing
the older Magneto exchange, which required the subscriber
to turn a generator crank handle (sticking out of the side of the
telephone) in order to send a ringing signal to the exchange.
The subscriber also required a local battery in his (or her)
premises to provide power to the telephone microphone
and receiver. This was a real problem, as subscriber's
batteries were regularly going 'flat', thereby rendering
their telephone inoperable - even though they could
still send a ringing signal to the exchange !
With the new CB system, the power (usually 48volts DC),
is sent from the telephone exchange to the subscriber's
phone via the telephone line.
The 48 volts came from a bank of batteries in the telephone
exchange, and eliminated the need for the subscriber to
have a local battery on the premises to power the phone.
In the picture below, each plugged-in cord represents a
conversation in progress . The cord simply connects
one subscriber to another.
Only part of the switchboard is shown . There are many
more operators - all women.
The manual exchange was eventually replaced by the
fully automatic exchange, which did away with the need
for operators.
1915 CB exchange switchboard
Section of the switchboard associated with a Manual Telephone Exchange.
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National Archives of Australia, Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes
This photo shows the front section of the National Archives
building in Canberra.
It is situated in Queen Victoria Terrace in the suburb of Parkes,
on the site where the original Canberra General Post Office (GPO )
was located.
Photo copyright © 2005 John Barnes
National Archives, Canberra.
Front entrance to the National Archives of Australia in Queen Victoria Terrace.
May 07
Air Force Two (Boeing C-32) lands at Sydney airport
Dateline - Thursday, February 22nd, 2007.
The American Vice President Dick Cheney (and his entourage) arrived
in Sydney aboard Air Force Two tonight on an official three day visit to Australia.
The pictures below show Air Force Two just after it touched down.
The aircraft is a C-32, a military version of the Boeing 757, and is powered
by two Pratt and Whitney jet engines.
Air Force Two
Air Force Two at Sydney International Airport.
A closer view of Air Force Two on the tarmac at Sydney airport.
A close-up view of one of the large Pratt and Whitney jet engines on Air Force Two.
Picture of Chris Bath, TV newsreader (2007)
Chris Bath newsreader
Chris Bath - TV newsreader (2007).
May 06
The picture below show British pop singer Lulu driving
the last Mini off the production line at Birmingham,
in 2000.
A total of 5,387,862 Minis were produced over a 41 year
period from 1959 to 2000 .
The Mini first made its appearance in Australia in early 1961,
and they were manufactured here in Australia by BMC
(British Motor Corp) and later by Leyland Australia.
Local production of the Mini ceased in late 1978.
The other picture shows a close-up of Lulu in the
passenger seat.
Click on the thumbnails for a larger view.
May 03
The picture below shows the iron clipper Patriarch at
dock in Sydney Harbour in the early 1890's.
Patriarch set a new record of 69 days for its maiden voyage from Gravesend
on the Thames (near London), to Sydney Harbour, between December 2nd, 1869,
and February 10th, 1870 - a distance of about 13,000 miles.
It went the 'long way around' Tasmania without passing through Bass
Strait.
After navigating around the Cape of Good Hope, Patriarch went as far South
as 50 degrees South latitude before turning north to navigate around Tasmania
and up the east coast to Sydney.
The clipper was the first iron ship built by the Aberdeen White Star Line,
and was launched in 1869 at a cost of 24,000 British pounds.
It had steel masts, and gross tonnage was almost 1500 tons.
The return journey was via the Pacific Ocean around Cape Horn,
and back to England via the Atlantic Ocean. This was accomplished
in 67 days.
During the voyage to Sydney, one of the best runs saw Patriarch cover
370 miles in one day, averaging a speed of 15 knots.
The navigational skills in those days was impressive, given that there
was no radio or satellite navigation systems.
One hundred years earlier, Captain Cook had made use of the same
navigational techniques in his search for the "Great Southern Continent".
The vessel was designed specifically for the England to Australia run,
and served a useful life of 29 years before being eventually sold off.
During its working life it never suffered any major mishaps, not even
in storms. It was an extremely robust and reliable vessel.
Moreover, it was a very 'environmentally friendly' ship in that it
utilised wind-power only, and did not employ any coal-burning
locomotion devices such as steam engines !
The second picture shows Patriarch at anchor in the River Thames around
1890.
The third picture shows Patriarch under full sail off the East coast of Australia
in the early 1890's.
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The Patriarch in Sydney Harbour, early 1890's.
Patriarch unloading at Sydney Harbour in the early 1890's.
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Patriarch anchored in the Thames.
Patriarch at anchor in the River Thames, circa 1890.
Patriarch under full sail
Patriarch under full sail off the east coast of Australia in the early 1890's.
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Mon and Obs room, Racal RA17 receiver, and "SINPO"sheets
The photo below was taken at the Radio Australia Receiver Site
(on Cox Peninsula) in 1968.
It was taken in the Monitoring & Observations room, commonly
referred to as the "Mon & Obs" room.
The purpose of the room was to allow monitoring of short-wave
transmissions from Radio Australia in Shepparton, Victoria, with
the use of RACAL RA17 communications receivers.
Two RACAL RA17 receivers can be seen mounted in the monitoring
console.
The papers on the desk in front of the console are 'SINPO' sheets.
These sheets were filled out on various Shepparton frequencies every hour,
and the results entered, assessed each frequency on the following criteria -
Signal (strength)
Interference
Noise
Propagation disturbance
Overall rating.
Hence the acronym, SINPO.
The SINPO sheets were also referred to as "Channel Occupancy Logs".
The information recorded on the SINPO sheets determined which
Shepparton frequencies were best suited for re-transmission from
the Cox Peninsula Transmitter Site, for a given time of the day.
The "mon & obs" room was staffed 24 hours, and each 'mon & obs'
operator worked rotating shifts, which included 11 pm to 7am, 7am
to 3pm, and 3pm to 11pm, seven days per week.
The mon & obs operator was transported to and from Cox Peninsula
by the motor launch Charles Todd (sunk in 1974 by Cyclone Tracy ).
A log book was provided on the night shift to record the arrival and
departure times of the watchman, who would check in 2 or 3 times
during the shift, after driving the 10 miles from the Transmitter Site.
The 'mon & obs' operator was the only person at the Receiver Site
during the 11pm to 7am shift.
Despite the isolation of the site, not a single incident was recorded in
the Log Book over a 12 month period (with the exception of a number
of complaints about the air conditioning).
During the period 1968 to 1969, the Prime Minister of Australia was John Grey
Gorton. The Postmaster General was Alan Hulme, and the Treasurer was William
('Billy') McMahon.
The PMG Engineer in charge of Radio Australia Cox Peninsula was Bill Shapley.
He was based in the Darwin office, but took a trip across the harbour whenever
a visit to the Transmitter or Receiver Site was warranted.
Second-in-charge was Brian Woodrow, and the Supervising Engineer in Adelaide
was Jack Ross. (John F. Ross).
The Receiver Site was closed down in 1974, because it had been rendered
obsolete by the completion of a new NEC microwave broadband system that
had been extended from Mount Isa to Darwin in that year.
Programme material for the Transmitter Site now came from the ABC Radio
Australia Studios in Melbourne via microwave link, thereby dispensing with
the need to receive the programs 'off air' from Shepparton.
The NEC microwave equipment was assembled at the NEC Australia factory
at Mulgrave in Melbourne.
In December 1974, the Radio Australia Transmitter Site was severely
damaged by cyclone Tracy, and was not restored until 10 years later.
In 1975 the Postmaster General's Department was abolished and
broken up into Telecom and Australia Post.
The second photo shows a close-up of one of the receivers.
Note that the 2 main tuning dials were marked in Megacycles
and Kilocycles.
(Those units were later changed to Megahertz and Kilohertz,
in honour of Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894) a German physicist who
carried out research into electromagnetic waves).
The date on the desk calendar reads - Thursday, 7 November, 1968.
The last 2 photos show the main entrance to the Receiver Site,
and an external view of the Receiver Site building before landscaping
had been carried out.
Photos copyright © 1968 John Barnes.
RACAL receivers in Mon & Obs console.
The monitoring console in the 'mon & obs" room at the Receiver Site, 1968.
Note the SINPO sheets on the desk. They had to be filled out every hour.
Closeup of RACAL RA17 receiver. The frequency is set to 17870 Kilocycles ( kilohertz).
"Big Brother" is watching !
Receiver Site entrance
Entrance to the Receiving Site (Radio Receiving Station), Cox Peninsula,1968.
Receiver Site building, 1968. The 'Mon & Obs' room is at the far end, on the right.
Landscaping of the site has not yet been carried out.
The section on the left contained the air conditioning plant.
May 01
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Pictures of the Wanniassa Supabarn expansion in 2005
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The expansion of the Supabarn store at Wanniassa shopping
centre in 2005 .
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Below are 21 photos showing the massive expansion of the
Supabarn store at the Wanniassa shopping centre ( on the
south side of Canberra ) in 2005 .
The Supabarn store was formerly a much smaller IGA store .
Supabarn is a part of the Koundouris Group , which is based in
Canberra , and also includes the ZOO advertising & marketing agency .
The store was originally called the Supabarn Emporium before the
expansion.
All photos copyright © 2005 John Barnes
Click on each picture for a larger view .
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