CAUTION TO LISTENERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 1 September 1928, Page 9

CAUTION TO LISTENERS

The Secretary, General Post Office, advises in connection with tho forthcoming trans-Tasman flight,that it is to be understood that tho messages transmitted from the airplane will be mainly commercial messages, and copyright Press, which is not available, for public information. ■ Tho Department will, however, as far as practicable, keep tho public apprised of the progross of the flight by arrangement with the Radio Broadcasting Company. Unless the aviators send out matter for general information, there cannot bo anything in tho nature of a running commentary on the events connected with tho flight. It is necessary to remind all amateur listeners who possoss apparatus capable of receiving signals from the airplane that the Amateur Radio Regulations expressly prohibit tho dissemination in any form of radio communications which aro of the nature of public cor- , respondence, such as tho commercial and Press messages referred to above. The position is that message from the airplane are the copyright of tho persons to whom they are addressed, and must not be used or even committed to writing by unauthorised persons.