[Waverley ARS] Blackwood ARS VK5BR- early years in 1920s

[Simon Buxton]

Hi

Thanks Eddie, another interesting piece of history.

As a reminder to our newer members, circuits for Waverley's first 
receiver and transmitter from 1920 can be found on our web site. The 
transmitter was a spark type and the receiver a 1-valve. In those days 
it was necessary to provide circuits of both types of equipment to get a 
licence. It is interesting to note that receive only licences were also 
allocated call signs and I remember that even in the 1950s in the UK 
pseudo callsigns (I think G plus a 4 figure number) were allocated to 
SWLs. This was useful for exchange of QSL cards when hams liked to get 
reception reports from SWLs.

Note that VK5BR would have been allocated 5BR in 1923 as the VK prefix 
only started in 1928.

For our history just click on the "Club history" link on the side bar on 
the home page of our site. There is also a link to another site covering 
the early history of Australian callsigns.

73 Simon

Eddie Hanham wrote:
> Dear Members,
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> Found this site by accident, gives the background on the formation or 
> VK5BR, see for circuits of the first transmitter:
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