RADIO AMATEURS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18925, 14 February 1927, Page 3

RADIO AMATEURS.

+ TRANSMITTING rights. initiation to minisikk. >.u .[i ll.iv i..lii-.[11i- .\e,\ l^eaiund Amain:: Radio Transmitters'' As--<-'"1 •'! deputation to ,hu :H„n. .Mi No. .'-Ithy 1,1 the removal <>t us;n,.'i.iis I-, • wavp-iongih-. and lilt-Mi^,; ransmitud. 11-0 deputation. villfil WiL- LCilll. •! '..V ;. of Ji'o ! ' ?' v Progress ! t'lit.rwiiiMie .'mateur ; imm-iiui v.;i' .ntrodmcd by .Mr 1). Holland. ,d.i\ li Stracluui said that hit A>s,>eia- • lion represented ocwntv-iiw per <em. , "1 ih" transmitting amateurs in the ; Iwnni'.iDii. Iho questions which they lushed to nring iicforo Mr Nosworthv | re the tcflmiral matter of wavti :oiigths and the nature ni the messages , 'raiiMiiittcd. T!ie member* of the Association wire young men who studied : wireless telegraphy :;s a .science, and j .11.11 iv o| them were . ngaged in this stud> long before trail •mission was l ''Uuinercialised. This would be appre- ' < iated when :t was known that these I r > "if tours had licen working from ei«jlit ! . v, ' :lls before the Ciovrriiincnt j .i;u. :ts own radio station, and there was a tendency to torget the value of I the work done liv amateur*. ! I lie amateurs of tlie world, he continued. were working on a wave-length I °f loilv met res. hut this was being inj yaded hy the American Navy. Now Zealand amateurs wanted a wave- ! length oi from thirty to thirty-four ! metres. Thirty-five to thirty-eight was 1 used liv the British Admiralty imd the : luited States Navy, and from thirtyeight to forty-two was employed hy American amateurs. New Zealand , amateurs desired use ci part of the i tortv metre wave-hand.

ll was recognised that the interests of the Post and Telegraph Department had to be put first in regard to the nature of the messages transmitted. There was no intention of interfering or competing with services of public utilitv. All New Zealand amateurs wanted was the right to send friendly messages abroad, and the speaker held that this exchange of friendly messages was a powerful means of bringing about international understanding. This communication should ho encouraged and not. discouraged. The M inister said that ho would give Hie matter his attention, and that his reply would he forwarded from Wellington at an early date.