{"id":43536,"date":"2022-02-16T07:18:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T07:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=43536"},"modified":"2022-02-19T04:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T04:04:28","slug":"the-howard-roberts-quartet-broadcast-in-1970-at-1pm-on-a-weekday-happy-90th-birthday-shelly-gunewardena-sent-by-patrick-ranasinghe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/the-howard-roberts-quartet-broadcast-in-1970-at-1pm-on-a-weekday-happy-90th-birthday-shelly-gunewardena-sent-by-patrick-ranasinghe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Howard Roberts Quartet broadcast  in 1970 at 1pm on a weekday &#038; Happy 90th Birthday Shelly Gunewardena (sent by Patrick Ranasinghe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 20px;\">The Howard Roberts Quartet broadcast\u00a0 in 1970 at 1pm on a weekday &amp; Happy 90th Birthday Shelly Gunewardena (sent by\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\">Patrick Ranasinghe)<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">In loving memory of Shelton Joseph (Shelly) Gunewardena 1932 -2022<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KA4EZvuH7q0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55187 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Patrick_Ranasinghe.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick_Ranasinghe\" width=\"167\" height=\"160\" \/>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\u00a0 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 the same time was a brilliant motor mechanic and the first in the country to convert some of the petrol American Automobiles\u00a0 6-12 cylinders to run on Kerosene at that time kerosene was cheap. Please enjoy The Howard Roberts Quartet broadcast\u00a0 in 1970 at 1pm on a weekday<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Immigrated to the U.S. in 1967, and subsequently became a U.S. citizen in the early 1980s. Mr. Shelly Gunewardena&#8217;s life story is truly emblematic of the concept of achievement.\u00a0 As a staunch believer in the idea of assuming full responsibility for developing one&#8217;s innate intelligence, talents, and skills, Shelly has achieved all that he has accomplished through his own initiative, creativity, perseverance, and determination. Certainly, we can not discount the fact that the personal attributes he is endowed with contributed to his realization of his dreams, aspirations and goals. Shelly grew up as the favourite son of M.M.P. Gunewardena, famous in Colombo circles for his horse, his talents in photography, and his golfing and tennis buddy, governor general, Sir John Kotelawela.\u00a0 M.M. P. as he was fondly known, would take Shelly along to state dinners at the invitation of Sir John, where Shelly got his penchant for hob-nobbing with international diplomats and their entourages. At the age of 16, he built his own radio with tubes and other contraptions.\u00a0 Soon, his reputation as the \u201cradio man\u201d spread across his home town, Dehiwela, and various neighbours and friends brought him their radios for repair.\u00a0 He became known as the \u201cRadio-guru of Dehiwela\u201d, which led to his bolder experiment in repairing the best radio at the time, a Phillips 9 tube raid, owned by a older doctor.\u00a0 Stumped by the complexity of the unit, and never one to give up, Shelly decided to dismantle the whole thing and reduce it to a 2 tube unit, much to the dismay of his more experienced uncles and the hesitant doctor who paid him Rs. 20 nonetheless, since the radio\u00a0<u>was<\/u>\u00a0working after Shelly\u2019s efforts. Following his interest in radio broadcasting, and his hobby with ham radio, at the age of 18, Shelly landed his first job at Radio SEAC (South-east Asia Command), the station established by the British forces in Ceylon, as the country was known at the time.\u00a0 This was quite a prestigious job for a young man of 18 since Radio SEAC broadcasted across the entire Southeast Asia region, and was meant to keep British soldiers stationed across the region in good morale through broadcasts of their favourite songs and other shows that kept the memory of home alive.\u00a0 The encyclopedia entry for\u00a0Radio SEAC explains that it was the war time radio station operated by the Allied Forces who took over the operations of\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colombo_Radio\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colombo_Radio&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1586846071416000&amp;usg=AFQjCNERioI2w6xMPgDs9I6hjyRFqMmhXQ\">Colombo Radio<\/a>, the national radio station in old Ceylon launched in 1925.\u00a0\u00a0 Radio SEAC programs were broadcast across Asia, tuned in by the allied forces and people across South Asia.\u00a0\u00a0 After\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1586846071416000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGP6oxAzySPdzrRsP-GbTVKP8MWWQ\">World War II<\/a>, Radio SEAC was handed over to the Government of\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ceylon\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ceylon&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1586846071417000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGjud_7LIxMSXKCT8jrgkTYiisJ0A\">Ceylon<\/a>, and underwent a name change to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_Ceylon\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_Ceylon&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1586846071417000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGrP015uZUCUvJ9ROCdELAWUj629w\">Radio Ceylon<\/a>, which is the oldest radio station in Asia, and the second oldest in the entire world, listened to by millions of people.\u00a0\u00a0Shelly was given a military motorcycle to travel to work, bearing the logo of a phoenix, a proud possession that gave him his first professional entre in to establishing himself as a global leader in his area of expertise.\u00a0<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">One recollection of Radio Ceylon mentions that \u201cFor Indian radio enthusiasts of decades gone by, it was Radio Ceylon that set the standards. Those were days before commercial broadcasts commenced in India and taking a break from the monotonous, though informative, broadcasts of All India Radio (AIR) meant twirling those vintage radios to trap Radio Ceylon&#8217;s programmes. Once tuned in, the listener was treated not just to music of the highest quality. The magnetic voices of broadcasters, Jimmy Barucha (English), Ameen Sayani (Hindi) and Mayilvaganam (Tamil), to mention just three, ensnared the listeners, taking Radio Ceylon to the top slot in the region&#8217;s radio network\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u201cThe history of broadcasting, published in Wikipedia, notes that gramophone music was broadcast from a tiny room in Colombo&#8217;s Central Telegraph Office with the aid of a transmitted built by Telegraph Department engineers from the radio equipment from a captured German submarine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43537 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Vernon-Corea.jpg\" alt=\"Vernon Corea \" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Vernon Corea on the front cover of the Radio Times of 1963<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43538 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Vernon-Corea-on-the-front-cover-of-the-Radio-Times-of-1963.jpg\" alt=\"Vernon Corea on the front cover of the Radio Times of 1963\" width=\"400\" height=\"253\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Shelly is remembered fondly by old members of the Radio Society of Sri Lanka (RSSL), who had this to say: \u201cA great surprise recently to have\u00a0<b>Shelly Gunewardena<\/b>\u00a0get in touch with me after 50 years. He was taken on the Radio SEAC staff in my days and spent much of his time at the receiving station at Hora Hena. We have swapped a number of emails recently catching up on old times! He is now in California and doing well in his own electronics business. He says I got him started on electronics!\u00a0 &#8211; Paul Gotto G3BGL Around that time, end of WW II, the United States decided to locate their own radio broadcast station, Voice of America also in Ceylon, and Shelly was placed in charge of the VoA station in Seeduwa.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">April 15, 2020\u00a0 <\/span><\/b><b><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Fr<wbr \/>om Jayam<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Good News<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><strong><em>Happy 90th Birthday Shelly Gunewardena <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>of Walnut, Ca.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43539 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Shelly-Gunewardena.jpg\" alt=\"Shelly Gunewardena\" width=\"588\" height=\"377\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;March 19, 2020 was my father, Shelton Joseph Gunewardena\u2019s 90<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Birthday.\u00a0I pray for God\u2019s continued blessings upon him, as he runs his course taking a totally unconventional path in life.\u00a0\u00a0Of all the out-of-the-box designs and inventions he conceived, the most notable is the invention of the Chip Indictor in 1977.\u00a0Prior to the chip inductor the smallest magnetic component at the time was the \u00bc inch cube developed by engineers from MIT.\u00a0Shelly worked relentlessly to develop his invention despite being told by his employer that if it could have been done, it would have already been done by individuals with far greater credentials than him.\u00a0Thankfully, that didn\u2019t dissuade him.\u00a0He had to develop and build his own winding machines since there were no machines that could wind sub miniature coils at the time.\u00a0He worked with a Ferrite Core company to produce a \u201cDog Bone\u201d core the size of a pencil tip led.\u00a0He designed and introduced unique test fixtures to H\/P (Hewlett Packard) since the test instruments at the time could not accurately test parts that small.\u00a0He designed new molding methodology since the experts at the time said it couldn\u2019t be done.\u00a0When the patent was granted and his parts catalog was released, the US Military adopted the catalog and established it as the MIL-30000 Series for Chip Inductors.\u00a0These parts ranged in size from 0.085 in. tall, 0.100 in. square, about the size of a grain of rice.\u00a0Shelly received Special Recognition Award from Raytheon as the Chip Inductor played a key role in the realization of the Patriot Missile program.\u00a0The Chip Inductor was a game-changer in the electronics industry in the advent of microelectronics.\u00a0Before this invention, a typical cellular telephone was the size of a suitcase which had to be housed in the trunk of a car.\u00a0We can all pay a salute of gratitude to Shelly as we read this tribute on our cell phones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0Hi wife Lorna and children Sunetra, Ramani, Nandini, Rohan, Ravi, Devika and Sriyanthie, join in wishing Shelly a Blessed and Joyful 90th\u00a0Birthday.&#8221; &#8211; Rohan Gunewardena<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Howard Roberts Quartet broadcast\u00a0 in 1970 at 1pm on a weekday &amp; Happy 90th Birthday Shelly Gunewardena (sent by\u00a0Patrick 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[16543,16544,16545],"class_list":{"0":"post-43536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-shelly-gunewardena","9":"tag-shelton-joseph-gunewardena","10":"tag-telegraph-department-engineers","11":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Howard Roberts Quartet broadcast in 1970 at 1pm on a weekday &amp; 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