tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388716192011-04-22T10:30:17.852+12:00Memories from listeners of Pirate Radio Hauraki 1966 - 1970David Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16768479139844667329noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38871619.post-14898238452016953102007-03-24T10:15:00.001+12:002007-03-24T10:16:56.615+12:00

I remember setting up a radio at Hygrade factory Hornby Christchurch for my work mates to listen to Hauraki in early evening using a piece of wire contacted to roof of building.   At my home in Hoon Hay CHCH found best reception on old wooden battery boxed radio by taps in family bathroom.   I called into Hauraki towards the end of 1969 when visiting my parents in Hamilton & had just missed a

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Hi,   I'm a presenter with the community stations  Apple AM and 10Radio in Somerset,uk and would just like to say that the Hauraki story is fascinating.It just makes me wish I had the chance to hear it.Congratulations to everyone involved-and if any of you ever visit the uk come into the studios for a natter!   Philip Knighton (Wellington,Somerset,UK)

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As the presenter and producer of a media show in the 1980's and 1990's on Radio Netherlands, we always found interest from the audience in the story of the real radio pioneers - people who changed the format of radio and created the Second Golden age of broadcasting. Radio Hauraki is up there with all the early pioneers. Brilliant people who knew that sharing emotion was the way to compete

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I lived at Clontarf north of Brisbane as a schoolboy. I vividly remember waiting for 4ZR Roma to go off the air at 10pm so that I could hear Hauraki.I still have a QSL card from around 1969. Al KirtonRadio 4KZInnisfailQueensland

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Loved hauraki mid 80s with ross, hawks, kev and the very awesome kent robertson in the afternoon. cheers, andy glenn chch

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Hello from Belgium - Europe. Hi my name is Herman from the city Gent - East Flanders. I'm a big Offshore Radio Freak. My bigest Offshore Radio Station from the 70s was Radio Caroline yes also from a ship in The Nordsea at the UK Coast. The only thing i know from Radio Hauraki is what i hear (audio) and what i read from Offshore Radio History Hans Knot from The Netherlands. For those who

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I grew up on you guys! 1966 I was a rATHER PRECOCIOUS 11 Y.O. AND I SNEAKIly LOOKED AT MUM AND DAD'S "TRUTH" newspaper racy stuff back then and definitely something you would hide away from your family. It suported you renegades and I guess as that curious 11 y.o. you were the men.Then my best girlfriend's older brother had discovered Eric Clapton, Cream, Jimi Hendrix,Led Zep and we used to

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loved dr rock massive tom dick chch

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I was a schoolboy in Leicestershire, England, and wrote to Radio Hauraki after reading about it in a newspaper here. To my amazement, Keith Ashton replied to my letter by sending me a tape of himself and another DJ, which they recorded in a 20 minute break in the studio between recording their programmes. I wish I still had the recording but I don't. It featured two jingles, "1480 for all

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Hi peoples,I was a tech for the Good Guys in 1967. Recorded Ross Goodwins program. In the early days they only had Mellow Yellow to play .. over and over again :)Nice to read the memories.Mine is of a hot day, the studio was sweltering. Ross had taken his trousers off. He was playing Young Girl Get outta My Mind!! And stretched out .. hand down his trou .. screamed out Young Girl get Outta

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Hi I remember those great days, and wish to send best wishes to John Forbes who I worked with, but sadly TVNZ filmed John and his employers mobile welder on the wharf when they were trying to get the Tiri back to sea. His employer took a grim view. So if you are still around John. Hi! Graham H.

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As a kid in the 1960's, I have fond memories of Radio Hauraki and "Good Guy" announcers, Peter Telling, Ian Magan, Barry Knight. I recall our Home radio always tuned to "1480 Top of the dial" and how much more fun it was to listen to than 1ZB and 1YD?Thanks Radio Hauraki, I look forward to seeing the exhibition Richard

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Hi Folks,I wasn't around in the days when Radio Hauraki was being set up and when it was at sea and finally came ashore BUT I know of the story and love it!! I work (part time) at Radio One Double X (1XX) in Whakatane which has a strong connection with Radio Hauraki. 1XX began on 30th June 1971 - the 4th private commercial station in NZ but the 1st in a private station on air in a

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It must have been Xmas 1967 when I lay in bed at my grandmother's place listening to her old radio with a longwire antenna in the middle of the night, and heard the first fascinating bits of audio wending their way through the ether. Being a wanna be radio nut at 20 years old, this was high impact stuff as the Tiri broadcast from what was supposed to be international waters!! It was those

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Well, the Radio Heritage Foundation webmaster may get angry at me for spilling some beans, but at this date so close to the anniversary, my memory of Hauraki is of listening BEFORE the first officially recognised broadcast of Monday 21 Nov 1966. After the great shenanigans by the Tiri's crew to break out of the Western Viaduct basin in October, there was a race to get on-air ASAP. I spent

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I live with one of the former Pirates, good old Murray McGill, the svelte chap up the mast trying to free it from the bridge in the "Shoestring pirates" book. He may not have been one of the "glory" boys but he played his part and was one of the crew arrested. I'd like to see all the originals no matter who they were recognised by some sort of Award from this country for changing history,

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My first conscious memory of Radio Hauraki is probably in 1972, as a child in Auckland growing up and being fascinated by Auckland Radio. I became aware of alternatives to my preference for 1ZB, and although I also enjoyed Radio I, Hauraki started to fascinate me with its lively and varied programming. Who were the "good guys?" and why did Peter T talk the way he did? Fred Botika's

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Hi Guys, I work for radio Dunedin as a volunteer, and listen to you fellas during the week at my paying job. Keep up the good work. Graeme FyffeNewton & Sykes Panelbeaters Dunedin

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My first impressions of Hauraki was on a visit to Picton early in 1970 and was impressed to be told by a family friend who had invited me into his bedroom to show me his reception of Hauraki on an old valve Bell Colt that here was a station broadcasting from an old ship in the Hauraki Gulf - probably the only broadcast from the Tiri (II) that I ever caught. Shortly after that (26 May 1970)

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I was a very loyal Radio Hauraki listener from early January 1967, when I bought my first transistor radio (a National Panasonic 8 from Smith's Sound in Hobson St, just around the corner from the North Shore Transport bus stops and just up the road from Farmers) with money saved from my Auckland Star paper run, up until broadcasts from the Hauraki Gulf ceased in 1971. I mostly listened to

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Hi there Heritage folk.I was The Radio Hauraki Promotions Manager in 1970 when Hauraki began as a 'legal' entity. We did some crazy things and produced some Great Radio - its 'Legend' and I consider myself privileged to be still here to celebrate The 40th Anniversary - Radio Hauraki's 40th and my 70th birthday, my 50th in radio broadcasting in the same year. Hey that's a bit scary. While

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I remember the night you tried to get out to sea, and the authorities attempted to close the lighter basin road/bridge. Cheers, Terry

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Everything seemed to be so much more fun with Radio Hauraki. Lot's of music especially on weekends. My father had his horses and rugby and I had 1480. It was great.   John Farndon [Auckland]

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