After rearing a family of three children, attending several educational courses, travelling overseas for two years, breaking in my beloved horse Hero and marrying the man of my dreams, it was time to let my creative personality have its day. On moving to Tasmania from NSW 14th May 1999, and after visiting Huon FM, I decided it was time to take the plunge and become involved in community radio.

My first program induction was country music on Sunday afternoons and Saturday night rock from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's from August 1999 to December of that year.

I filled in on the Brekky show for two days a week for one month in 1999.

I left for two years and returned in July 2001 with "All Kinds of Country", as the name suggests on Sunday afternoons and then moved onto other programs as well.

Now that I am a grandmother of ten and also graduated to Station Manager, I am not quite bald but am heading in that direction - but what a great way to go.

Commenced involvement in community radio in 1979 at 2MCE FM in Bathurst.

Acting manager at 2WEB Bourke for one month in 1980.  Co-ordinator of 2ARM-FM Armidale 1981-1982 and Voluntary Manager 2ARM-FM 1992-94.

Member PBAA Ethnic Broadcasting Committee 1981, member PBAA National committee 1982.

ABC Regional News Journalist New England North West 1993-1999.  Presented weekly nostalgia program "Collector's Shelf" on ABC NE-NW.

My other interests include music, reading, public speaking, cricket history, cricket umpiring, growing roses, vegetarian cooking, music discography, history and politics.

Luckiest Break - Marrying Carolyne.

Programs Presented:

Rhythm Is Our Business - Sundays 1-4pm.  Three hours of Australian and overseas Jazz.

Music Maestro Please - Mondays 7-10pm.   Nostalgia Program featuring music from the 1920's to the 1950's.

Sports update Saturdays 9-11.  Huon Valley and Kingborough Sport, state and national news, results, and interviews.

Down Blues Alley – 7-10pm Wednesdays. Blues from the 1920’s to contemporary artists including a minimum of 20% Australian artists.

Rod presents Wednesday Grapevine followed by Showtime

David, another Pom, happily admits to living in a time warp of the English 1960's - the best time for popular music he says. After living for many years in Australia he and his lovely wife Jude retired to the old country in 1999where David's interest in local radio was inspired by the great Judi Spiers of BBC Radio Devon. He's now a firm believer that locally run stations can help to build a real sense of community.
His musical interests include country, jazz, classical and indigenous music from all over the world. On his Friday Arvo show, though, he admits its "mostly 60's"!

Chris Rawlings

 

A bit about myself I grew up the U.K and was lucky enough to be a teen ager when the music of   the 6o’s was happening. I was a Rocker with a motorbike during the time of Mods & Rockers In England. Migrating to Australia with my family in the late sixties I later moved permantly to the Huon in 1985 where I met my future wife to be, Pam.

Then after seeing a recruiting sign) I joined 7Rgy (as Huon fm was known then)  I started as a nervous announcer, and slowly built a popular show featuring the best music and comedy from the sixties & 70’s called Retro Rock gaining an Affectionate nickname as the “Guru of Retro’

I went on to cover just about all aspects of working in a community radio station. I also built up a show for motorcycle and car lovers  called “Kickstart” Traversing the state and interviewing many well known racing identies. I have been involved with  HuonFm  for around 16yrs although not constantly taking  a couple of 12month breaks during this time.

  I just love being a broadcaster on community radio its such a rewarding feeling broadcasting to my local community, to hopefully make their day a bit happier with the added bonus of being able to send my programs out to the world across the internet and also to be part of the happy team of fellow broadcasters and volunteers at the station.

  I do two shows presently one being ‘Rock 'n Comedy’ where I play & present mainly rock from the 60’s& 70’s,including, comedy greats from that era plus a bit of home grown comedy.

The other show is one of our morning ‘Grapevine show’s on Fridays featuring live & recorded interviews, plus music and community Information Comments & local news

Hello, I’m Fred Hall from Manchester, England. I was born in 1937,and married on Christmas eve 1960, to Barbara, now my wife of 45 years. We came to Australia in June 1971 and lived in Adelaide for 30 years, coming to Tasmania in February 2001. We have one child Samantha Jane. Samantha and husband Paul, have five children, Evelyn, Samuel, Thomas, Lucy and Grace

Born in the Hunter Valley in the 1950's initially started work at the Newcastle Steelworks, studying Metallurgy at Newcastle Uni.After a couple of bad years, including the Vietnam War, I quit Uni and started teacher training. Taught Science, Maths, Cooking and Computers for the next 27 years in both state (NSW) and Catholic High Schools. Was promoted to Cordinator in Information Technology in 2000 and spent 3 years in this high pressure (and high paid!) job. Left for Tassie in 2003 and had no job for nearly 2 years. Discovered Huon FM during this time and was interested in the technical side of Radio and liked playing music from the 70s and 80's. Did a few years of presenting at Huon FM and now finally have had to hang up the mike. My current job (at a radio station in Hobart) is needing more of my time, and now im happy to drop in when I can and give a hand (if needed). My current interest is in training (Cert III Radio) at both HuonFM and RPH (Hobart), and maybe further afield. In many ways, I owe a lot to Huon FM. Maybe, you will find that Huon FM can help you too!

My name is Georgie FitzGerald, I was born in Melbourne on the 10th of July 1969.

I had a fun and bizare childhood. I am the eldest of 5 children and thus know how to converse with many people on a wide variety of subjects. 

I completed yeat 12 in 1987, and did a sociollogy degree at La Trobe University in Melbourne. From there I began working with intelectually disabled adults teaching art, music, dance and drama.

In my mid 20's I decided to travel around Australia and begun a production company called One Heart Productions. I collected a data base of talented people from around the country and worked solidly for a few years "puttin on" circus like performances around the mainland festival circuit.

I stopped travelling to have my son Jaymyne who is now 12. After Jaymyne was born I studied massage, Reiki, and natural therapies by correspondance. When I completed my studies I set up a natural therapies clinic in Grafton NSW. I practiced there for a year, and then sold my business when my father died suddenly in 1998.

My fathers death had quite a profound effect on me and I decided to move to Tasmania with my son.

I have lived in Tassie since 1998 and I love it. I met Kevin (who is a jazz/funk drummer and builder) in 1999 and we were married in 2002. We worked and lived on a flower farm in Grove for a few years and saved up to buy our first home.

We now have our own small carpentry/building business.

We have had two more boys and life is going along pretty well.

We are living at Franklin in the Huon Valley 

Since my little ones were born I have discovered that I have a real passion and enthusiasm for RADIO and have been a regular announcer at 95.3 Huon FM for the past 3 years.

Over the past 3 years I have explored a diverse range of shows and have appealed to a wide variety of audiences.

I have experienced the joys of doing an afternoon music show, a Saturday night "mixed party hits" show, an Australian music show, and am currently presenting a morning talk back and current affairs show. 

I have had  experience conducting interviews . I have also done some production work as well as ads and promos for the station.

Due to the nature of Huon Fm I have had to research, choose music and organise all of my shows. Thus I have a good knowledge of music and can produce and present stunningly superior show. 

I do enjoy being creative and dynamic and I am able to achieve that working at Huon FM. I am intelligent, witty, mature and have a wonderful phone manner. I really enjoy working as part of a team. I am also capable of initiating ideas and motivating people and always deliver a high standard of performance.

I am a happy person who shines brightly. I love interacting with people from all walks of life, and can converse with anyone on most subjects (and even if i'm not sure i am brilliant at "winging it"!)

I am currently completing Certificate III in Broadcasting (Radio). I am doing this training through Huon FM.

Huon FM plays a big part in my life and I am really happy to be involved with such an AWESOME radio station.

Hi !

Ken Ashlin here- I was born in Geeveston and educated at the Geeveston area school and later at Hobart high school.after working at the Mercury newspaper for 36 years and then in real estate for 8 years now living in Kingston

Likes - music - fishing -good friends – golf – barbeques – and the mighty magpies

Favourite food - roast lamb & veggies – syrup dumplings & scalded cream

Favourite drink - bourbon & coke

Dislikes – Insincere people – brains & tripe – cruelty to animals

Willi Ladru

On Tuesdays at 1pm you can hear Denis and Fiona's "Listen to the Bible".

Helen Pokorny