Happy Station Show Haitian Relief Special

The special edition of Happy Station focusing on the HAM radio operators who were the first to send and receive information from Haiti.

To listen goto www.pcjmedia.com and then click on archive.

(Keith Perron)

Upcoming holiday Happy Station Specials

December 24, 2009 - Happy Station's Chrismas Special
ALL REGIONS
Tom Meijer will make an appearance with a song recorded for this show. Also a number of other surprises.

Happy Station New Years Specials
0200UTC to 0400UTC - Latin/South America/Caribbean
My guest co-host will be David Monson. We have a number of contributions sent in from different places.

1600UTC to 1800UTC - North America
This show will be done live from Hong Kong with many more contributions. Bob Zanotti and Bob Thomann will join me on this show and they will present a special Swiss Merry Go Round. The first new show since 1994. We will also be cutting to a live concert of the Hong Kong Symphony's year end concert. I will also be announcing the winners for our year end contest:

Prizes are:
1. Sangean ATS909
2. Sangean ATC606a
3. Jerry Berg's books
4. One year membership to Communication's from the BDXC
5. 10 CD's of Easy Come, Easy Go from Tom Meijer

For station's that relay Happy Station they will get a 55min edited version of the live show.

Starting in 2010 three MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) stations will start to carry The Happy Station Show. And the ABC Radio affiliate in Adelaide. Also WRN's European feed. When the dates are confirmed I will post them.

Finally. This week at 0200UTC (December 10) the transmission to Latin/South America will be live. If your out of this area you can tune to the webstream at
http://www.facebook.com/l/570d1;www.wrmi.net .

Keith Perron

Happy Station's Tribute To Dxers Part 2

Hi Everyone,
A number of people have been contacting me asking first if I was going to do a second special DXERS show and if I was when? The answer is YES and YES. Happy Station Tribute To Dxers Part 2

Air date: August 13, 2009

Time: This will be for the 1500UTC Transmission

Frequency: 9955khz

Webstream: http://www.facebook.com/l/; www.wrmi.net

My guests and topics will be:

Soviet Jamming with a former Lithuanian Minister Of Communications and long time Dxer Rimantas Pleikys.

Simon Mason author of Secret Signals to talk about the mystery of spy number stations.

And the full interview with Jerry Berg about his books on the history of shortwave radio.
This show will air on World FM 88.5 fm in Tawa & Redwood, New Zealand on August 15, 2009 at 1000UTC. The webstream for that transmission can be heard at http://www.facebook.com/l/;www.worldfm.co.nz .
If you have any questions about that show my email is pcj.happystation@gmail.com

Keep Listening,

Keith Perron

Happy Station Show 9th July

On July 9th for the 1500UTC transmission of Happy Station I'll be doing a feature paying tribute to South Africa's first commercial radio station Springbok Radio.
Some quick facts:

- Springbok hit the airwaves in 1950

- Some well known RSA announcers like Kim Shippey also worked at Springbok

- Springbok was a commercial station operated by the SABC

- Springbok is the first ever media outlet to make a James Bond book into a drama.

- The station stopped in 1985, 9 years after television came to South Africa in 1976.

- Springbok came back in 2008 as an online radio station www.springbokradio.com

My guest is Neil Hendrickse from Springbok Radio. I will also feature some vintage clips of the golden era of South African radio.
July 9th, 2009 1500 to 1555 UTC

Frequency: 9955 khz to North America www.wrmi.net for web stream

July 11, 2009 1000 to 1055 UTC

Frequency. 88.5 fm Tawa, Redwood, New Zealand www.worldfm.co.nz for webstream

July 12, 2009 9:05 pm to 9:59 pm (local time)Radio Sonora (various frequencies) Jakarta and nation wide in Indonesia

(Keith Perron)

Happy Station Blog

Happy Station has launched its blog, you can follow the same here :

http://happystationshow.blogspot.com/

The Happy Station special show "Tribute To Dxers"

A must listen show as it features interesting interviews with Bill Whitacre of VOA-IBB on Chinese jamming, Mark of BDXC, Bob Zanotti of Swiss Merry Go Round, Ian McFarland of RCI/dxer.ca

Program can be downloaded from here :

http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/33539

Direct link (Right click to download)

http://tinyurl.com/lcwjdy

Just a word of caution that the download size is 50 mb.

Helen Shapiro May 14, 2009 on Happy Station!

Hi Everyone,

Legionary 60's UK pop icon Helen Shapiro will be my guest on next weeks Happy Station. For listeners outside Europe who may not know that name she was one of the youngest stars to impact the change in pop music in the early 60s with people like Cliff Richard, Adam Faith and others. At the ago of 14 she had her first hit called Don't Treat Me Like A Child.

Air date: May 14, 2009
First transmission: directed to North & South America 0100 UTC/GMT
Repeated: North America 1500 UTC/GMT
Frequency : 9955 khz
Live web stream: http://www.facebook.com/l/;www.wrmi.net

Keep listening and 73,
Keith

Happy Station April 23, 1500UTC

Hi Everyone,

Just to let you know the HS for April 23, 2009 at 0100UTC will not be broadcast because of a special Earth Day program from 2300 to 0200UTC. Happy Station this week will only have one edition at 1500UTC. On May 6th the 0100UTC transmission will be back.

Coming up on this weeks show:
Listeners Corner with messages from the Egypt, US and UK.
An album signed and given to a listener in the early 60s by Eddie Startz.
Thomas Witherspoon a Happy Station listener since the late 80s and early 90s who will talk about an organization he is director of call Ears To Our World which provides SW radios to teachers and schools in Africa. And music from...... Well tune in to find out.

Air date: April 23, 2009
Time: 1500UTC
Frequency: 9955 khz, 31 meters

And remember I'm giving away 2 shortwave radios from Sangean the ATS909 and ATS606a, but to enter the lucky draw you must send in your reception report.

Regards,
Keith Perron

Happy Station Show - April 16th

Just to remind you that April 16th at 0100UTC and 1500UTC my guest on Happy Station will be Frank Ifield.

Frequency: 9955 khz, 31 Meters
Date: April 16th, 2009

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Keith Perron

Happy Station Show for April 9th UTC (April 8th EDT)

0100 to 0155UTC/GMT: This program will feature our listeners corner as well as many letters from around the world. Plus alot more music. :):)

1500 to 1555UTC/GMT: This program is very special as my special guest will be Frank Ifield. Many of you will know this name as he had a number of hits in the 60s and 70s.

Also for special Happy Station shows the opening of the show will be something many of you may remember from the open house shows from the 70s also may of you may also have a copy of this song that was sent out to listeners as a 7" record. Can you guess?

All times are in UTC/GMT:
Times 0100 to 0155 UTC South and North America with Happy Station 2 from 1500 to 1555 UTC North America and in some parts of Western Europe.
Frequency: 9955KHZ, 31 METERS

Also keep your recorded messages coming!
PLEASE MAKE SURE THEY ARE THE FOLLOWING FORMATS:
MP3 (best)
WAV (best, but to large)
Quicktime (best)

Other formats can be sent by snail mail. They are:
CDR
Mini Disk
Standard Cassette
Reel to Reel (record at 7 1/2)

The two shortwave radios I'm giving away at the month of June are:
Sangean ATS-909 (first prize)
Sangean ATS-606a (second prize)
But to enter you must send in you reception reports by mail in return you will receive the Happy Station QSL Card.

73,
Keith Perron
Happy Station Show

Second transmission of third Happy Station for April 8th, 2009 at 1500UTC

Hi Everyopne,
Just want to let you know my guest on the April 8th Happy Station at 1500UTC is going to be legionary Australian pop singer Frank Ifield. During the 1960's Frank had hits such as I Remember You, The Summer Is Over, Wayward Wind, Please and others. People may not know that but in the early 1960's 4 lads from Liverpool or the Beatles were his opening act. I have known Frank and his wife for almost 20 years now and 4 years ago had the pleasure of hosting a 6 part radio series about the history of Australian music with him. Something you may not have known about him, but Frank use to listen to Happy Station as a boy in the 50s and use to listen from time to time until the late 1980s. He has a funny memory about meeting Eddy Startz while in tour in Holland in the mid 1960s. We will keep that part for a whole different show. If any of you would like to take part in the interview feel free to email me what ever questions you may have for Frank or even record them.

Air Date: April 8th, 2009
Frequency: 9955 khz
Time: 1500 UTC
Area: North & South America

For those outside this region you can catch it at the same time on www.wrmi.net

Frank's website www.frankifield.com

Regards,
Keith