AMATEUR RADIO.
INTERESTING TESTS. UNITED STATES MESSAGES. ASHBURTON, This Bay. Mr W. M. Dawson, station 3, A.L., last night got into two-way communication with U 6, A.W.T., San Francisco. It is understood that he is the first Australian or New Zealand amateur to communicate with America using a five-watt valve' with normal power input. He used a bare .14 watts (350 volts 30 milliamps). Static irterference increased as the evening advanced. Calls were sent out on 88 metres, a reply "being received at 8.42 p.m. Owing to the heavy, static it was impracticable to proceed with the 40-metre tests and the conditions in the United States were also bad, so the conversations • were discontinued. Later a Califomian station was heard calling, but static and power interference made it impossible to copy the messages. Mr Dawson is about to conduct under special Government permission tests on 39 metres with the United States.—Press Assn.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NA19250210.2.34
Bibliographic details
Northern Advocate, 10 February 1925, Page 5
Word Count
152AMATEUR RADIO. Northern Advocate, 10 February 1925, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Northern Advocate. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in