The Frankster Archives

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An update from me

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G’day folks, An update from me and also as to where this site is heading. The audio and video will come back shortly, I just need to get a few things out of the way first. As I mentioned in a previous update, my sister is going through breast cancer at the moment. She’s seeing […]

Monday saw news published by Radioinfo that Steve Mummery was heading back to SCA in his new role of Content Strategy Manager, based in Perth. To go along with the story I thought it’d be fun to put up a couple of Steve’s airchecks to go along with the story. Both of these are from […]

Well we’re back!

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Well, bit of a surprise really. I wasn’t expecting to be back for a long while, but things have improved. A few things I had to let go of a couple of weeks back, and as some of you may know, one of those was my website and efforts in AV restoration and all. Well […]

Airchecks Update 02/12/2022

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**Aircheck audio supplied by David Rogerson and dubbed and mastered by Frankster 2UW AM Stereo with Holger Brockman – January 5th 1985 Dur: 29’11”, Stereo, 20.4 MB Audio credit: ARN 4KQ with Ian Holland – February 25th 1988** Dur: 1 hr 29 min, Mono, 41.5 MB Audio credit: SEN **Thanks to both @SydneyCityTV and Paul […]

Airchecks Update 25/11/2022

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**Aircheck audio supplied by David Rogerson and dubbed and mastered by Frankster Funtastic 2UW tape 9089: Dave Whitcomb – June 26th 1978 (tape 1) Dur: 1 hr 31 min, Mono, 42.4 MB Audio credit: ARN 4SS with Rod Brice – October 5th 1990 Dur: 60’03”, Stereo, 42.1 MB Audio credit: Not Known 4KQ The 70’s […]

Greetings and welcome to this week’s audio update! Thought we’d break away from the airchecks this week and present some blooper reels. We have had 6 reels worth given to us in the last couple of weeks, and today we’re throwing caution to the wind and presenting each one of them in their entirety! These […]

Audio Update 14/10/2022

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**All audio related to this project was dubbed and restored by Frankster here at the archive, Sydney, April 2022. To enable the use of the airchecks intact, they are provided here for promotional and entertainment purposes only. Thankyou to David Rogerson once again for supplying all material for us to work on and restore. 4KQ […]

Airchecks Update 07/10/2022

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**All audio related to this project was dubbed and restored by Frankster here at the archive, Sydney, April 2022. To enable the use of the airchecks intact, they are provided here for promotional and entertainment purposes only. Thankyou to David Rogerson once again for supplying all material for us to work on and restore. 3FOX-FM […]

Audio Update 23/09/2022

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**All audio related to this project was dubbed and restored by Frankster here at the archive, Sydney, April 2022. To enable the use of the airchecks intact, they are provided here for promotional and entertainment purposes only. Thankyou to David Rogerson once again for supplying all material for us to work on and restore. 2WS […]

After 90 years, Radio 2CH Sydney, once on AM 1170 and then onto the DAB+ band, will be ceasing transmission tonight at 6.00pm AEST. Here’s a look back at some airchecks of 2CH. http://franksterarchives.org/2ch/2ch1.mp3 Rev Roger Bush – 64 min http://franksterarchives.org/2ch/2ch2.mp3 Bob Rogers, 1998 – 64 min http://franksterarchives.org/2ch/2ch3.mp3 Chris Kearns, 1997 – 91 min http://franksterarchives.org/2ch/2ch4.mp3 […]