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Kagnew Station Patch

Kagnew Station
AFRTS Radio

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This page will be dedicated to the radio side of AFRTS. If you have pictures or stories about AFRTS radio please send them in and I will post them here. I hope to have some radio clips posted here soon so keep checking the page.

Click here to hear the "Rock of East Africa, AFRS Asmara" (mp3 file)

AFRS Audio Clip PageNew!

  • Outside the AFRTS studio, trying to see in!
  • The AFRTS Staff, circa 1972, courtesy of Dean Tiernan.
  • John Kircher at the FM radio controls hosting Music of the Masters every Wednesday night without interruption from January 1971 through August 1973.
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  • Bob Hunt, John Kircher, Rick Glasby and Ron Buckhalt at their Asmara (1971) mini-reunion in Annapolis, MD in 2003. (currently unavailable)
  • The KANU radio control room, 40 years ago, with Speedy Five Ken Schuster at the helm. Remember Ampex? Remember... records?New!
  • A person in Finland wrote a letter to Kagnew indicating he had picked up AFRS there. This is a letter in reply from Therman A. Baker, SFC, AFRTS Station Manager.New!