Are you reading me?

In a beautiful art deco building overlooking the Hauraki Gulf, a group of amateur radio enthusiasts are reviving a radio frequency that harks back to the days of the Titanic.

While there's no equipment from 1912 to hand, the enthusiasts at Musick Memorial Station in Bucklands Beach are surrounded by equipment that dates from the 1940s.

They are back on air on a 500kHz frequency - the first time this frequency has been in use for more than a decade.

The station's caretaker and custodian, Ian Walker, is excited. "We've brought the whole system back to life from the old days. It's a big event worldwide. We are the first ones to revive the band in New Zealand."

The group has been working on this project for 11 years and for the last two weeks news of the event has been reported internationally.

"It's been in Aussie, and we've got information to say it's in the UK that we were on the air."

Read the full story by The Aucklander's Kieran Nash at: http://www.theaucklander.co.nz/local/news/
are-you-reading-me/3911588/