I can remember 2xl very modern in 1993 when I was on a year 11 snow trip. I think most high schools did that. As a good radio nerd had a walkman.
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I did the same thing on the Year 6 Canberra/Snow trip in 1992. I took my trusty ol National Panasonic transistor AM/FM radio that my grandparents gave me. 2GN, Kix 106 and 2XL of course were the ones I was listening to. Great trip and great memories.
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Yes I remember around 1991-1992 2GN and 2XL had a very hot CHR format. X107 fm Newcastle was also owned by Capital Radio then before being sold to the consortium that then sold to Austereo.
A couple of songs that stood out for me was: Felix- donât you want me, a rave track heard on 2GN in glorious am. I remember hearing this on the school bus going down to our school camp at Penrose in the Southern Highlands.
Dream Frequency- Take me to the top, another 90âs rave track. 2XL played this even in Breakfast. I remember hearing this also on X107 while dxing from Sydney.
Back then on my trips to the snow the car radio would always be on 2day fm / Kix 106 / 2XL.
I miss how good radio was back then.
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I wish, Iâd love to hear some of ROX FM Port Macquarie again, as I travelled between Newcastle and the Gold Coast a lot in the mid-late 90s. My radio dial was mostly on 102.3 or 105.1 between Nabiac and Woolgolga.
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I may be able to help with that at some point. Weâve digitised hundreds of hours worth of audio over the past month and one cassette tape featured assorted mid 90s audio from almost every commercial station on the east coast between Sydney and the Gold Coast. Rox FM was definitely in there. Iâm pretty sure that thereâs more audio from the same recording session still waiting to be digitised. Once thatâs done, weâll probably put together a âSydney to the Gold Coast Road Tripâ montage. It may be a while but it is coming.
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That sounds awesome! Good luck.
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Didnât go to St. Andrewâs by any chance?
I went to two camps in the Snowy Mountains during school: one was the standard Year 6 camp (1998 for me) and the other a geography excursion in Yr 11 (2003). Snow FM was on air by 1998 so 2XL had flipped to hits ânâ memories; it was still part CHR at the beginning of '98 when I visited Thredbo. By 2003 both were sounding similar to today, though FM 104.7 still had a rock skewed mix. I remember my good friend saying Eagle FM had a âpretty shocking music mixâ in 2003.
Yeah, I would love to hear Rox FM again. âGreedy Peopleâ by the Electric Hippies and âWaking Up Tiredâ by the Gurus are two songs that Iâll always associate with that station.
@anon36025973 - I am drooling.
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I did, I was year of 1994.
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Class of 2004 here. Amazing, a decade apart. Our time did not coincide as my first year there was 1999. Unfortunately you didnât get to see co-ed there 
You were an Oatley resident as well. I remember going for my interview there in 1997 and the registrar at the time remarked that Oatley was one of the most common suburbs for intake.
The property at Penrose is called Kirrikee and yes, Braidwood FM can be heard around there. Dr Beavis lives in Bowral now.
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Yes, great school, co-ed was way after my time.
There was almost as many St Andrewâs students on Oatley station in the morning as there were Danebank girls.
I do remember Kirrikee very well, and had many school camps there. I remember dxing on my old Sony Walkman there too.
At the top gate where the bus pulled in at the shed I remember receiving Kix106 and Fm104.7. however down at the camp site it was only Power fm and the Illawarra nationals.
This was before Eagle fm went to air.
I only recently took the wife and kids for a drive past Kirrikee for a bit of nostalgia.
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Yes down at the main camp site, youâre close to the Paddyâs River and itâs not great for DX. I would like to try a huge 200 m beverage (Mw) antenna on the property thoughâŚ
They do radio stuff in the scouts but it was never a feature of outdoor education at Kirrikee. I am not an outdoor type (thanks Lemonheads) but did find the topo map reading and rogaine (orienteering) of interest.
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Yes the dxing was pretty average down by the river, and the Paddyâs River brings back horrible memories. Year 8 camp foggy sub 10âc Winters day canoeing on the Paddyâs River and having to capsize, it was brass Monkeyâs.
Dr Beavis was the headmaster for the whole time I was at SACS. I had heard he was down in the Southern Highlands from one of the students I caught up with at the 20 year reunion, who had also moved down to the Southern Highlands. Dr Beavis plays the organ at his church.
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I had to canoe on the Kangaroo River from Bendeela to Beehive (foot of Yarrunga Ck) then hike up the old road to Merlya Pass. Being lower elevation it wasnât so âbrass monkeyâ.
Never thought Kirrikee would come up on MediaSpy 
To bring it back somewhat to radio, I did a random ID on my 2BRW show that said âfrom Kirrikee to Krawareeâ.
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Thanks!
Also, Iâm currently digitising a tape of assorted station identification from Sydney, Central Coast and Illawarra commercial stations, recorded over the summer of 92/93. It includes 2GO FM108, 96.5 Wave FM, The New i98FM, One FM 96.1, 1224 2WS, 1107 2UW, 2Day FM and more. Really looking forward to getting this posted too.
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@anon36025973 - would love to hear the unscoped stuff if I could. Perhaps you could upload this to archive.org? Of course you have to scope them for YT.
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This particular tape came from one of our regular contributors and is already scoped. Iâll just be tidying it up a bit. There is no unscoped version available, sorry.
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I am a class of 1994.
For we went to Narrabeen in 1987 and did all canoeing etc, then Year 6 we went out to Bathurst. I remember the bus only had an AM radio in 88. Not uncommon back then.
Then year 11 was the snow trip in 1993.
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I just finished listening to this and was about to post the link! WOW! A fine example of ARN trashing what was a great radio station!
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ARN have thus attended the SCA school of how to trash a once great station.
SCA are masters at it and have done it many times over.
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