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ABC Radio Perth is a radio station located in Perth, Western Australia, operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, broadcasting on 102.5 MHz FM. It is the flagship ABC Local Radio station in
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QSL card from VK6AG Wally Coxon, first chief engineer of 6WF, to VK3BQ Max Howden, ca 1926. Wally's transmitter provided a shortwave simulcast of 6WF on 3 MHz for several years in late 1920s
Geoff Hutchison, presenter of the Drive program, in the station's radio studio (The Wally Foreman Studio, Radio Studio 600)
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation had its origins in a licensing scheme for individual radio stations administered by the Postmaster-General's Department established in 1923 into a content provi
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…since about November 1924 (when 5 kW operation commenced), 6WF was receiving about one quarter of that of 2FC. In 1929 the radio station was sold to the Australian Broadcasting Company. As a result, the radio station moved from the Westralian Farmers buildings to the ESA Bank building on the corner of Hay and Milligan streets in Perth…
The ABC's Perth headquarters in 1937
ABC truck recording soldiers leaving for war, Darling Harbour, 1940
ABC mobile studio caravan, used for concerts presented by the ABC at army camps and other locations, 1940
Patricia Delaney, junior announcer at ABC, 18 February 1944