For Pacific Radio Amateurs

Onducted By Ex Zk-1-Ac/Vr-2-Ak.

Iddress notes to P.O. Box 5179, Wellesley Street, Auckland, N.Z.) ISLANDS HAMS: Let your Pacific

?ighbours know you’re active by

\ecking in on your favourite band

ith a CQ at 0100/0700/ 1900 z. Use f a known time will help you—

id them.

/fOST interesting Island signal of the month seemed to be FWBAB on allis, who has apparently been on the land for some time but rarely appears i the air and then mainly only to main in skeds with FKBAB/AO on 14 mc/s V, Sunday mornings. Also reported to me on 7 mc/s occasionally. Name at e moment is not available, but some tails may be forthcoming by next >nth.

Doug Berry, ZK-l-BG, possibly the most live 3.5 mc/s man in the Islands, ssed in a report on activities in the oks again this month. A contact with 19WZ lately brought his score to 12 antries worked on this band in recent mths. ZK-l-AB, the other Doug, with watts and a long wire antenna, con es his activities mainly to 14 mc/s CW th good effect. fhere is good news for the VHF men. ,-1-BH, Nat Bradley of the ionisphere ttion, is preparing a 6-metre rig for s coming summer. The receiver will available very soon. Ron Lowry, k~l“BI> is the only other man in any y active in the Cooks. He occasionally pears on 3.5 mc/s CW. Stuart Kingan, eran ZK-l-AA, was apparently showing ns of rejoining the fraternity recently en a coconut palm fell across his ver line bringing down six power poles, sms a lot of damage for one coconut Ve understand that Hugh Hickling, -1-AT, has returned to Rarotonga after period in hospital in Suva. He is not the air however. 6y the time this appears a big silence 1 probably have descended upon Niue ich both the ZK2 men will have quit the end of November. There is reason hope, however, that ZK2AA, at least, y appear again in the Islands under ►ther call. •uring the month Pat Senior, ZM6AA, s heard active on 80-metre phone in tact with a ZL and with a moderately >ng signal in Auckland, tan Mayne, VR2AS, reports from Suva t the Hams there will be co-operating h the local broadcasting station staff ing the forthcoming Royal Visit— isting in the manning of broadcast ly posts. Stan also reports a new n, Barry Spring-Rice from New land, a sergeant in the Fiji Army, ar section. Barry was not previously Jam. Stan does not report his call i but we assume that it is VR2CX.

EC-1 transmitter-receiver will probably used. y kind co-operation of Radio Inspector Raebel, VK9HI, of Port Moresby, we able, this month, to give a complete Ing of VK-9 New Guinea Hams, rect as at October 23. A great number

of these, we know, are rarely active.

Notes from those that are would be appreciated.

Licensed New Guinea stations as at 23/10/53: VK9AB, A Bunting, DCA, Port Moresby.

VK9AD, E. P. Black, 9PA, Port Moresby.

VK9AU, R. A. J. Taylor, RTC, Wewak.

VK9AH, A. J. Humphries, Buin.

VK9BI, A. G. Wilkey, Huxley Street, Bulolo.

VK9BJ, B, M. Johnson, APC, Badili.

VK9BX, N. L. Bonney, DCA, Port Moresby.

VK9CS, C. J. Spehr, Lutheran Mission, Madang.

VK9DS, D. B. Schroder, DCA, Lae, VK9DT, D. G. Taylor, RTC. Samarai.

VK9FK, R. C. Fawkes, DCA, Lae.

VK9FN, F. M. Nolan, 9PA, Port Moresby.

VK9GB, A. Barrie, OTC, Rabaul.

VK9GV, G. V. Camnbell, AWA, Lae.

VK9GW, G. A. Warner, OTC, Port Moresby.

VK9HI, L. C. Raebel, Lawes Road, Port Moresby.

VK9JO, T. S. Kepner, APC, Port Moresby.

VK9JP, J. F. Pert, DCA, Lae.

VK9KC, W. Bock, Pandora Crescent, Port Moresby.

VK9KT, J. R. Foldi, DDS&NA, Port Moresby.

VK9MC, W. A. MacGregor, Baiyer River.

VKf)MF (Portable), F. N. Nolan, 9PA, Port Moresby.

VK9MG, G. W. Mullins, C/- M.V. Wallach, Samarai.

VK9MT, M. Tie, DCA, Port Moresby.

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VK9PJ, P. J. F. Wharton, DCA, Madang.

VK9RC, R. C. Chugg, Madang.

VK9RG, R. G. Garrett, Rabaul.

VK9RM, R. B. Monfries, Bnlolo.

VK9RO, R. M. Ellison, SDA, Bautama.

VK9WG, W. C. Gee, Port Moresby.

VK9WL, J. Widdup, Chabai, via Sohano.

VK9WK W. K. Webster, OTC, Port Moresby.

VK9WP, W. A. P. Luke, OTC, Rabaul.

VK9YT, C. J. Zimmer, Lamasong, New Ireland.

VK9YY, A. J. Smith, AWA, Lae.