AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26127, 1 June 1950, Page 5

AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS

CONVENTION TO BE HELD IN CHRISTCHURCH Amateur radio operators from all over New Zealand will be in Chr : >*- church during the King's Birthday week-end to attend tlvir annual convention. Most of the business of the convention will d«al with technical matters: but there will also be a social programme for the wives and friends of visiting delegates. Abcut 19) eu'Y-ts will attend a dinner next Saturday evening, and on Sunday there wi 1 be a trip to Akaroa, a tour of the Summit road and a railway excursion 1o the south. Included in the ether arrangements made by ihe Christchurch branch of the New Zealand As«nc ? ati r, n of Radio Transmitters to entertain th® visitors, will be the traditional rmind of visffi on Monday 1o the exnerimenta] radio stations maintained by Christchurch am'-’teur onerators. The annual renort of the secretary of the association 'Mr W G. Turner, of Wanganui), which will be nro«An 4 ed at the convention, shows that bran Ims have active in d m°mbershin drive. w : th ♦h® result that th re were W 9 more durin" tb» F-'r lh« first t'rrc , 'inc o the Somnd World V’nr. a cr°d’t b°l' , rre nf F 333 18s is shown in the financial statement. Txvo n«wv branch °s wer® f-r’"®d during + h? y«?r—-ne a t Cambridge and another at V’aitara.