Then one of our movers & shakers (Geoff Tomes, now Chief Engineer at GTV9) had started a discotheque - and I had to put over an announcement for same.  Well I had never heard of a  discotheque so had absolutely no idea how to pronounce it - "dis coth e cue" got stammered out and no-one ever let me forget it!!

And the first time I met Gabriel Jenes (Gabby to his mates - he used to joke about receiving sample sachet's of make-up etc) - anyway, Gab arrived in the middle of a working party after we had just sanded down an old desk to make our new "console" - just in time to see me pick up a can of Estapol and start shaking it.  "Don't shake it..." he interrupted "..you'll get bubbles". Well, he was a minute too late!  We had a lovely "bubbly" estapol finish on our console to remember his entrance by!

When we first went to air with our new console, it had the latest "Silicon" transistors - good high frequency response - too good, in fact, because the RMIT amateur radio hams soon found that their transmission blasted through into our microphone circuit. After a few embarrassing interjections from them in the middle of our broadcasts, they accused us of putting pins in their aerial cable!  How unfair!  Of course, we didn't know anything about that (I don't think?).  There followed a minor "war" with us having to fix our speaker cables several times and them blaming us for anything that happened to their ham rig therafter! They were good fun times....... some of us even passed!

Note that this console (pictured with John above) is my own - we used it for most of 1965 and some of 1966. I still have this console stashed away under our house.  We dragged it out a few years ago and found that the mice had built a nest in it!!  Wottamess!!!!  Anyway, with a bit of fiddling it did sort-of work again but hardly Hi-Fi!!!