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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 2. March 5 1979

[Introduction]

Radio Active is student radio. It goes with FM stereo, it is currently on air for the fifth time since it began in 1976 and if you tune into 1467 kilohertz, it plays the music in the background of your life. But what is student radio? Salient reporter Simon Wilson interviewed Active station manager David Campbell in an attempt to find out. His report:

Campbell has two chief worries. One is the license under which Active operates. The terms are so restrictive it hardly lets the station do anything at all. Just play music; but even then, it can't be the music other stations play. The other is technical. Active's equipment is limited and old. The quality of transmission, Campbell says, is worse this year than it has ever been. There are many reasons, none of them the fault of the people running the show.