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CFGT - The Voice of 2 Fighter Wing

The following detail was extracted from the Club and Comminity News section of a 2 Wing newsletter called "The Messenger", dated June-July 1959. According to this article, all was not well with the Radaio Station.

It has been almost a year since CFGT left the air waves and it has only been on the air once or twice for short periods such as important hockey games or some extremely special reason. But the studio has not been idle. Behind the plain aluminum walls and plainer door-ways, miracles have happened. Bits and pieces, hand-me-downs, spare parts, and scrounged items have all been assembled by a couple of young fellows who obviously knew what they were doing for the results of their labours are a converted studio console for disc-jockey work. In case you don't know, the two men are Chief Technician Corporal Buddy Reed and Assistant LAC Paul Simard. Their designs appear to be paying off because we understand that as soon as the political red-tape is tied, and we receive our transmitter, we shall be on the air soon afterwards. In this conversion job we are well ahead of the other Wings, because they haven't even begun their conversion and in some cases they don't even have a place to put their Radio Station as yet. So the network may not be complete for a while yet but we soon will be. This means that we will be receiving programs from the Canadian Brigade Station at Werl near Soest and in the early morning and certain portions of the evening we will again be hearing the familiar voices of 2 Wing at the microphone.

Of course, many of us will be leaving in the near future, but those who will be remaining for a little longer will have the job of training the newcomers who want to drop in... and why don't you? It was a lot of fun for us in the past, and it should be very enjoyable for you who are left.