TRANSCEIVER FOR RESCUES
EQUIPMENT DESIGNED BY PUKEKOHE AMATEUR
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 5. Advanced radio amateurs of the Amateur Radio Emergency Corps will start building about 150 compact, lightweight and highly-efficient radio trans-mitter-receivers as soon as copies of- a prototype developed by a Pukekohe “ham,” Mr Roy Needham (ZLIKG), have been made and sent to the main centres as patterns. Mr Needham developed the transceiver for search and rescue work, and demonstrated it to other amateurs at the annual convention of the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters in Auckland during the weekend.
The set weighs 71b and ,is. 9£in long and sin wide and deep. It can be used for either morse or telephone transmission and operates from compact batteries. The transceiver’s range incorporates the amateurs’ 80 metre frequency.
Output is a mere II watts—New Zealand amateurs are allowed 100 watts — but Mr Needham has easily worked Melbourne and South Island amateurs.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27987, 6 June 1956, Page 18
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