AMATEUR WIRELESS.
ISSUE OF PERMITS. WELLINGTON, June 16. The Post and Telegraph Department regulates the use of wireless apparatus by amateurs by a system of licenses anil permits. At present the department is not issuing licenses, as the issue of permits, which was suspended during the war, has only lately been renewed, but a large number have applied for them. An applicant for a permit has to supply the department with particulars regarding tlie appa.atus he intends to use, and his own telegraphic qualifications, for it is essential if he is going to use valve receivers that he can read warnings by business stations to amateurs to cease operating. This is necessary because valve receivers may discharge enough energy to drown faint messages coming into the aerials of other stations. The issue of permits, which can be withdrawn if the holders are found bv lie unsuitable, will enable the department to gauge the nature of the wireless amateur community prior to the issue (necessarily much more limited) of licenses.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3510, 21 June 1921, Page 24
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169AMATEUR WIRELESS. Otago Witness, Issue 3510, 21 June 1921, Page 24
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