Hobart Experimenters Club (black eye)
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March 14, 1925 THE LISTENER IN 31
WIRELESS
CLUB REP()R TS, i
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amateurs and. experimenters.” . Address all
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Hobart. Expérimenters’. Club
’THE Hobart “Radio' Experimenters’
Club is a strong body of wireless
enthusiasts, captained - by = Mr Geo.
R ee
Collis, ‘well-known- in Australian wire-
less.circles. ;| Perhaps the most note-
worthy member of the club is Mr T.
‘Watkins, owner-operator of that re-
markable amateur transmitting station
TAA.. The secretary is Mr D. Ches-
terman, himself the proud possessor
©of an eight-valve installation of his
own construction. 'The club was once $a b
known as the Wireless Institute, but Members “of the Essendon Radio Club.
a
' split occurred (in the course of which fitted- with an efficient wireless tele-
some blood was spilt and a black eye tween this club and the council of the
phone apparatus, which conveyed the Wireless Institute regarding the in-
told its tale), and the new body was results of. races, etc., to a giant loud
formed with the donor of the black troduction of a graduated system of
speaker stationed on . the regatta, membership in the various subuzjba.n
-eye as president. = The Wireless Insti- ground.
tute is still in existence, but in
In this way the results were clubs. Members of the Essendop%&b
rather made known to thousands of spec- were mot disposed to endangeri fhe
& negative state at present. tators who were unable to see the fin-
was recently a movement on-foot
There harmony -arising from the absolute’
on ish of the races in true perspective, equality of its membership by intro—é;
the part of ' local experimenters to Quite a number of the bhoats partici-
close down ‘the Hobart broadca ducing unwelcome distinctions which!i
sting pating in the regatta were fitted with were not considered necessary
station 7ZL on account of its interfer. wireless, so that it was possible in a’
ence with “Important experiments.” for club founded on a science which was
the yachtsmen to communicate with merely a pastime with the vast ma-
Launceston Experimenters’ Club their friends during the course Jority of its members.
of a A solution to
race, the difficulty has now been arrived at
THE Launceston Radio -Expe
riment- whereby the club may retain its con-
ers’ Club made a name for Essendon Radio Club
last Saturday when the Henle itself nection with the Wireless Institute,
Tamar regatta was carri
y-on- THE recent meetings whilst the old conditions of member-
ed out by of this club
means of wireless. have been devoted to the ship will be maintained.
A .gpeed boat was sion-of the deadlock whic discus-
h arose be-
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