Telegraph Department engineers Archives

The Howard Roberts Quartet broadcast in 1970 at 1pm on a weekday & Happy 90th Birthday Shelly Gunewardena (sent by Patrick Ranasinghe) In loving memory of Shelton Joseph (Shelly) Gunewardena 1932 -2022 This is a tribute Radio Ceylon and to all electrical radio engineers and technicians who work at Radio Ceylon/SLBC the unsung heroes that made everything possible our listening pleaser working and maintain all the transmitting equipment to broadcast in Sri Lanka India and south East Asia with News and Music. Shelly Gunawardena was one of them and his Father MMP Gunawardena was the Radio Chief Engineer. I was lucky to visit their home at Fairline road Dehiwala in the 1948 a little boy and was amazed see radio equipment and their personal transmission equipment and communicating with the BBC, voice of America, German collogues and housed 5 or more deference clocks with their country names and time. Shelly at ...