1926ĪWA established two large beam wireless stations on 180 hectare sites a receiver site in Victoria at Rockbank near Melbourne and a transmitter site at Ballan near Ballarat this site became known as Fiskville.Ī shortwave beam radiotelegraph service was set up between Australia and Britain. AWA Media soon sold 3EE and 2CH was also sold in 1994. AWA purchased 3XY Melbourne in 1991, relaunching it in 1992 as 3EE (Magic 693). In addition to being a maker of broadcasting equipment and a leading manufacturer of consumer radios, AWA Broadcasting (eventually to become AWA Media Pty Ltd) was the first and at one time the largest commercial radio network in Australia.ĪWA owned and operated many Australian metropolitan and country AM radio stations over the years, including 2CH Sydney, 3MP Melbourne and 6KY Perth. In 1916 Fisk became Managing Director and in 1932 was made AWA Chairman. The first AWA chairman was Sir Hugh Denison and Sir Ernest Fisk, also a founding director, was made General and Technical manager. In 1979 this moved to Launceston, Tasmania and becomes part of the Australian Maritime College. Later, in 1913, the new company established the Marconi Telefunken College of Telegraphy, later renamed the Marconi School of Wireless (MSW). AWA had exclusive rights throughout Australasia to the patents, ‘present and future’, for both Marconi and Telefunken. The two parties settled their differences and July 1913, they formed a new company, Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd. The government decided the best solution would be to use circuits designed by John Balsillie, inventor of the ‘Balsillie System’ of wireless telegraphy. The English Marconi Company sued the Australian government for infringing their patent and AWL issued writs against firms who were using Marconi equipment. AWA commenced operations in 1909 as Australasian Wireless Limited (AWL), as a Telefunken wireless agent.
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