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

[Edwin Lowe]

Some further thought to what was discussed at the last Wednesday night 
meeting in terms of celebrating the club's 90th birthday in 2009.

While a number of people were talking about building vintage circuits 
and so on, I thought it would be nice to apply for a special event 
callsign for the duration of the year.  Incorporating the club's 
original callsign issued in 1920 'N249', we could apply for something 
like VI90N249.

The callsign could be then used by members who wish to use it on a 
roster basis to allow maximum coverage of bands/modes of interests 
throughout the year, including any contests or record attempts that the 
club or members may wish to partake in..
that's one idea anyway
Edwin

Edwin Lowe
VK2VEL
Sydney, Australia
ph: 0407416090



Simon Buxton wrote:
> 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,
>>
>> Found this site by accident, gives the background on the formation or 
>> VK5BR, see for circuits of the first transmitter:
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
>
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