For my part, I joined SRA in 1989 when Geoff Gerrand (89 techie guy - who was in 4th yr Comm Eng) wanted to recruit some more techie folks to carry things into 1990.

I was a 1st yr comm eng at the time, and along with Ed Glazebrook (another 1st yr comm eng) started fiddling with some of the wires and buttons that made SRA.

During 89 to 92 I enjoyed helping out for the 2 test broadcasts we did per year. I think we were on 94.7 until about 1991 when the Department of Transport and communications reshuffled the FM band a little and we settled for 94.9

 The normal procedure was to send a stereo signal (via land line) to the roof of building 12 from builidng 18. We would then use a microwave link to send the signal to whatever building we were transmitting from (eg Nauru House, Melbourne Central, 101 Collins) before pumping out at 100W on the FM band. (on one of the pages you mentioned something about 954.8 MHz, 10W. I think that was probably the spec for our microwave link that year)

You might be amused to know that in 1993, the station was shut down by
men in dark suits a couple of days after the start of a test broadcast.
I understand that the problem was that a microwave transmitter was borrowed for the test broadcast. But someone forgot to change the frequency to that allocated to SRA. Instead, it was left set at a frequency owned by one of the oil companies which used it to communicate between oil rigs etc. Although the FM 94.9 signal was OK, the oil company and the government were not too impressed with the tunes being broadcast. Luckily it didnt take too long to sort things out and resume the broadcast.

In 89 we had only 1 CD player. It was a temperamental beast that was used in the production studio. We didn't actually have CD players for broadcast till about 92 when Ed and I installed a couple of cheapies
into the studio. But due to a lack of software, it took a while before they got used extensively.

 I have fond memories of wasting time at SRA in building 18 when I should have been studying. We threw a lot of paper planes out onto Swanston St and occassionally a station manager was dangled out too.