RADIO LISTENING
DX CLUB MEETING * The monthly meeting of the _Otago branch of the • New: Zealand ‘-DX Club was well attended, four visitors ..being present. Further discussion took place on the acquisition 'of aDX Listening Post, and it was resolved, to conduct a week-end Australian ’ broadcast competition, the winner; being the‘DX-er logging the most VKs during .tire .weekend and producing : the verifications by the May meeting- Members gave news of their loggings in recent weeks, and some nights of good' reception were reported, ft was decided to write to the postal authorities requesting that the publication of receipt of overseas mails be improved. -Among the verifications on view was one from “ The Voice of Free Indonesia,” and this is believed to be the. only-verified report received by any New Zealand DX-er. The following results'were reported : Broadcast: Senior, ■ • American— WING, Dayton, Ohio, J. H. Drysdale; junior. American—-KGMB; Honolulu. Hawaii, J. Turner; open—VUM, ..Madras, India, J. F. Fox; Australian—4GY. Gvmpie, Queensland. H. Looker. Shortwave.:, Senior—Q;ly.B2A, Prague. Czecho-Slovakia, J. H.‘ Drysdale; junior BLA4. Hamburg, Germany, . Turner. The President's Shield ami the Williams Cup : were won by G. A. Jackson.
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Evening Star, Issue 26028, 17 February 1947, Page 10
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186RADIO LISTENING Evening Star, Issue 26028, 17 February 1947, Page 10
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