For Pacific Radio Amateurs
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Conducted by Ex ZK-1-AC/VR-2-AK (Address notes to P.O. Box 179 W, Wellesley Street, Auckland, NZ.)
Islands Hams, for your own benefit try IC Q and listen for calls at the Pacific slands Net times of 0100/0700/1900 GMT n your favourite bands. By using these unes you will make more Islands con acts and provide opportunity for other sland stations to contact you. Ignore be outside DX for at least 15 minutes.
Notes Of Interest
Frequency Changes: On May 1, some nportant changes occurred to Amateur •equencies. Outstanding among these is new band from 21 to 21.45 mc/s, a Auction of the present 20-metre band y banning use above 14.35 mc/s, and •r Australian-administered stations, a Auction of the 40-metre band by ban mg use above 7.15 mc/s. The New saland-administered stations retain use 7.3 mc/s, though in actual practice uch of the higher portion is un work - >le, due to b/c interference.
Those who have the opportunity to iten frequently on the Ham bands re >rt that not for a long time have lands Hams been so conspicuous by eir absence as in recent months.
We have not yet obtained details of A o £ erations P lann ed by Tom Davis, d °« hi s long v °y a 8e across the utn Pacific from NZ to Chile. in >ril Tom sailed his 48 foot yacht— rmerly named Soubrette, but now Miru from Wellington to Lyttelton to meet 3 wife and two sons who came down r last voyage of Maui Pomare. Then JL fa “ lly t sailed back to Wellington, Z h? er r„™ 6 £ ng v 7° yage commenced [r nhLi , He has a mateur radio ir aboard, so keep an eye on 7 mc/s Ye ar e indebted to that tireless tener, Eric Trebilcock (BERS-195) of Tc?a a ’^ for * S ? rne interes ting information p&rV— statlons this month. We quote 'at Spry, formerly VR-5-GA, of the an . Public Works Department, is now Ne ™ Z ealand an d active with 100-W Collins autotune rig as -l-AJL— heard on 14 mc/s phone. ih 0 m ne u men are heard active a way th on Macquarie Is.-VK-1-Rg (other and VK-l-EM. The mer is active on 14 mc/s CW and me and 7 mc/s CW. a , K ’,!‘ R S formerly of Macquarie but on Heard Is., has not been heard n his new location yet. £e e d na^ e (^ ar olines) station men “ kSov h T KH - 6 -QY/KC-6 is r k C6QY. Johnny West is the ra * l U° rmerly w ell-known as KM-6on Midway (1947). He is now very ve on 7 and 14 mc/s CW. y m 2 wv™ statlon at P rese nt ra as ’zM Tp °v ee ; formerly wellhe Between Dx con- » keds , his brother ZL-3-PM sly on 7 mc/s CW. asil Dale, formerly of BP & Co St in Ca “' sign VK-9-XX, is now lent in Durban, South Africa, and is the air and active as ZS-5-XX He ecretary of the S.A.R.L. there He i* embered In Sydney as VK-2-XX Administration radio station In Pa Jo
Dr. Rob Black, VK-2-QZ/VR-9, has been heard a lot on 7 mc/s CW from the Trobriand Is. He apparently survived the mid-April hurricane.
KX-6-AH, somewhere in the Marshall is., is putting a powerful CW slg onto e f ci l evenin &- Island unknown, but QTH xs 1960 AACS, Navy 824, Box II Fleet P. 0., San Francisco.
A new signal has appeared from Nor ** — Geor S e Meaton, VK-9-GM attached to Dept, of Civil Aviation. Re port hath it that he is liable to be heard a good deal on 7 mc/s CW.
VR-!-A. Chas. Adams, at the radio station, Tarawa, continues very active
heard contacting European stations on. 14 mc/s CW.
For Yachts And Small-Ships
Weather information for seafarers who cannot read morse is available for several South Pacific areas as follows: North-eastern Tasman and waters north and east of New Zealand; From Auckland Radio on 2162 kc/s at 0918 and 2118 GMT and from IYA and other New ™™ and national broadcast stations at
0030/0900/1915/2100 Gmt
For waters in the Fiji area: From Suva broadcast station on 930 kc/s at 0600 GMT* station on 930 kc/s at 000 For waters in the Samoa area: Prom Apia broadcast station on 1420 kc/s at 0600 GMT (Tues./Thurs./Sat./Sun.) and at 1800 GMT (repeated at 1830 GMT) For waters in New Guinea/Soloinons area; From Port Moresby broadcast 72 B° kC/S at 0855/0915 OMT