Okay, I'm going to attempt a review here, although my info might be a bit old, and not up to date…read more (PLEASE correct me if I am wrong.)
I think that Aurora Communications is the official company name of what once was San Francisco Radio Station KGEI. See the following HISTORY:
I'm herewith going to provide a brief review of this listing, along with several links that readers can visit for more detailed and historical data about this listing.
All details herewith compliments of The Bay Area Radio Museum, FEBC International and Amateur Radio ('Ham') Licensee/Station W6ITL and Quantum Zero-Point Communications, San Mateo, CA.
For a background of the Review Listing herewith, the following KEY WORDS are herein after provided, all of which pertain to: Aurora Communications, San Francisco Shortwave Radio Broadcast Station, KGEI (1939-1995).
Location: KGEI Radio Transmitters and Station were located just East of Redwood Shores, on the approximately 50 acres of baylands/bayfront flatlands, shared with KNBR Radio Station Transmitters. This is South of Foster City and the small island known as 'Bird Island', and North of Steinberger Slough and Bair Island. The Station/Transmitter site was nominally accessible by a hardened dirt road, from Radio Road, Redwood Shores, this dirt access road passing directly under the very high-voltage PG&E main-power overhead transmission lines, that exist along this side of San Francisco Bay.
Recreational: This entire peninsula area, hard by the waters of the San Francisco Bay, is 'fronted' by extensive dikes/seawalls, along which there was (at last investigation, however some time ago) a hiking/bike path, on top of the seawalls, which might have been improved today, with a paved hiking/trail, suitable for recreational hikers/bikers, who might enjoy viewing the antenna site and bayfront area. However, it is reported that much of this bayfront peninsula area has now already been developed, with new housing construction.
KEY WORDS follow:
KGEI (1939-1941); KGEI (1941-1945); KGEI (1954-1955); President John F. Kennedy; Cuban Missile Crisis; CIA; Langley, Virginia (CIA Headquarters); 'Voice of America'; General Electric (GE); Golden Gate Exposition, Treasure Island, San Francisco (1939); Amateur Radio Station W6XBE; Far East Broadcasting Company, International (FEBC); 1939 Folies Bergere, on KGEI; Hollywood Movie Stars Cesar Romero and Sally Eilers, on KGEI; KGEI Studio at the Fairmont Hotel, Nob Hill, San Francisco (1941); Radio Personality William Winter, broadcasts on KGEI to the Pacific Regions during WWII; AMVETS; Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS); Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941); Bataan and Corregidor, Philippine Islands; President Ramon Magsaysay of the Philippines; General Douglas MacArthur; Bob Hope/Clark Gable, on KGEI; Armed Forces Network (AFN); Hollywood Actress Loretta Young; Pat Sajak ("Wheel of Fortune"), on KGEI during Korean and Vietnam Wars; American Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN); Hollywood Actor Robin Williams, "Good Morning, Vietnam!"; KPO/KNBC/KNBR/KGEI; "Voice of the Philippines", KGEI; 'Freedom Broadcasts', on 'Friendship Station' KGEI; 'Voices Overseas'- TIME; 'War of Propaganda'- TIME; Edward R. Murrow, on KGEI; 'Radio Free Europe'/'Radio Liberty', on KGEI; Fully Alive Community Church, 1406 Radio Road, Redwood Shores, CA 94065, 650.631.9505 (now occupying the former KGEI building); KGEI antennas and antenna field were perfectly aligned for perfect radio reception in Tokyo, Mexico City, Quito and Buenes Aires, on the International Shortwave Broadcast Bands of 19, 25 and 49 Meters; Philippine Ambassador (retired) Tiburcio Baja, was KGEI's 'Tagalog Voice'; Stanford's 'University of the Air'; KGEI, 1960-1994, FEBC, primarily religious broadcasting.
More links and historical info pertaining to KGEI, can be found on Yahoo and Google, by searching for 'KGEI', including the following historical info links:
http://users.adams.net/~jfs/kgei.htm
http://users.adams.net/~jfs/kgei9.htm
http://www.bayarearadio.org/stn_photos/kgei_xmtr-site_2004.shtml
http://www.stanford.edu/group/wais/LatinAmerica/latinamer_onreligionandviolence31602.html
http://febinfo.org/photo/photosummary.php
http://www.amvets.org/HTML/news_you_can_use/magazine_summer2004_article1.htm
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,790392,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,790473-2,00.html
http://www.fybush.com/sites/2005/site-051021.html
http://afrts.dodmedia.osd.mil/heritage/page.asp?pg=60-years
http://www.febc.org/about/timeline.html
http://pl703.pairlitesite.com/Stations/KGEI.pdf