This interview is part of the Awarua Radio Communications Museum collection. In this interview Les tells of his employment at the Awarua Station where he lived in the hostel. He describes having to practice Morse code, the receiving and transmitting processes on older radio equipment, and receiving messages from ships all over the world. His job included manning the disaster watch for large ships using Morse code to provide safety for life at sea. He also describes Mayday calls. In 1974 he spent 18 months on the Chatham Islands radio as a senior radio operator before returning to Awarua. He discusses concerns about when operators were wearing head phones. Post Office undertook a study of this. Les was a union representative for the Post Office and took redundancy in 1985. The radio station closed the next year.