For Pacific Radio Amateurs
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Conducted by Ex ZK-1-AC/VR-2-AK
fragment this month is from Doug- ZK-l-BG. "Some skunk is pirating my call lain on 20 metres—and getting some beauti- I QSL's from Europe," he says. The said skunk not thought to be in the Pacific Islands bow er Doug says he's the only active Ham in e Cooks at present.
Untiring listener Eric Trebilcock, BERS-195 ■ntions a few items for the record. Wau dio Club's call-sign, recently allocated, is 9CW, The Papua-New Guinea Division of the A, P.O. Box 56, Port Moresby, has been otted the call VK9WI. Eric notes that Frank Stick, ex-VR4AE of Honiara, is now VKSAE Alice Springs in the heart of Australia. 1-DL at Vila, ex-ZC3AB of Christmas (Indian tan), V. E. Mathew, is heard on 14,015 's CW. (Other sources give his spot crystal quencies as 7,000.5/14,001/14,055 kc/s). : anning's latest addition, Dean-VR3B, is ird working many W's on 14 me/s CW.
Narcel-FKBAQ, another active New Caledonia man, gives his QSL address as P.O. Box I, Noumea. iric lists the foilwing Island stations as rd by him during August: 3.5 mc/s CW;
Lau; 7 Mc/S Cw: Vk9Rh/Oq/Fn/Wk/Rc,
SAX, FKBAC, KR6LJ; 7 mc/s phone: VK9RH;
Mc/S Cw: Vk9Rh, Fkbab/Ac/Ah/Aq,
Ibz/Cs, Kj6Bh/Fab, Yj-L-Dl; 14 Mc/S
Ne Vk9Rh/Ok/Db/Bw, Kj6Fab, Zm6At.
also reports that intermittent pirate X-l-NP again active, allegedly off the Queensland 5t rom other sources we note that there will i be a mobile New Caledonian, FKBAR/MM, rating from Societe Nickel's 3,660-ton jhter "Quebec" (commercial call FPYA) on Noumea-Newcastle, NSW, service. We me he's the vessel's Radio Officer. FKBAH/AL led together to get AR on the Ham bands, "Amateur Radio". few other items of Island interest, for benefit of the Hams east of New Guinea rarely see a copy of "Amateur Radio", also worth passing on from the September t. allis and Futuna, FWB, has been, as from list 1, officially accepted by the DXCC critics as a separate country. (We suppose will also have noted that the Tokelaus Western Samoa are now officially one and same ZM6, by decree of the NZ P & T irtment of several months ago.) i event of some note took place at Port ssby on July 17, according to "AR's" VK9 e. The local WAI station VK9WI was ially opened by Assistant Administrator of Territory, Mr. R. Wilson. That station eforth will be on the air each Sunday on 7/14/114 mc/s bands with an official dcast to New Guinea Hams. Slow morse eing dispensed on 3,560 kc/s each Friday ing, and a frequency-checking service is ap for the local boys, keen Port Moresby VHF group, headed 'DB/FN is eager to make contacts in any tion, and will arrange tests and skeds all comers. arlie-VK9WG, homeward bound from England i this appears, was reported seriously ill earlier, but now recovered, rrific signals should soon be squirting all the Pacific from an impressive system of al-quad beams for 10/15/20 metres now I erected by VK9BS—that is, if the quads more successful than an BJK beam with ’ VK9BW seems to be having trouble, reak In" says that VK9RH at Norfolk b appears only on Saturdays and Sundays,
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i same source points out that Floyd- C is located on the north-east side of irn and badly screened from the ZL-VK Kon At present he's using a V-beam on •e States, but W6YY has despatched him ■metre folded dipole to try out, and may send dipoles for the 15/40-metre bands. skeds Floyd at 10 p m. POST Saturdays 1 GMT, Sundays) on 14,143 kc/s.
ZL3AB says that Georges-FOBAK, down on Rapa, puts a powerful sig into ZL at times apparently using an BJK antenna which he inherited from Roland-FOBAD (now back in Paris).
Recent VK9 QTH changes listed include VK9EB, K. S. Mullan, C/o Crowley Airways Lae, NG; Geof. Stobie, VK9VW, is now VK3VW, 70 Bell Street, Heidelberg West, N. 23, Victoria' VK9YY, in case we missed it, is now VK2AIr' FKBAJ is M. Jerome, Box 104, Noumea.