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Some things I remember about radio in Tasmania and where 
         I got the info   * means photocopied   Richard Rogers 
         VK7RO

         1901  sandy bay-ship - Mercury * & Amateur Radio Aug70 
         p17 includes photo of eqpt

         1904  Keith Norman of White St, Launceston - Examiner 
         letter re Launceston Roar - 7/3/25 - "My own radio 
         experience began about 1904 when I carried out some 
         transmissions in Hobart with a 6-inch spark coil, a 
         coherer, and a morse inker, all home-made. What a job 
         that coil was! Never again."

         pre 1914  Monks bros - The Examiner, Radio News by 
         Sparks, 5/2/25 - "Early Radio Experiments in the North
         The distinction of being the first two boys to operate a 
         wireless apparatus in Tasmania is believed to belong to 
         Messrs Cyril and Alfred Monks, the former very well known 
         in Hobart.  When only lads the Monks brothers constructed 
         a receiving set at their house in Launceston, where quite 
         remarkable results were achieved.  When the war broke out 
         the Monks brothers were appointed operators on the HMAS 
         Australia, and acted in that capacity for some time.  
         They were the first two operators of the Australian 
         Navy."

         pre 1914  G.L.H. of Waddamana [presumably Geoff Hall, 
         later 7GH] - letter in Tas. Mail 28-1-25 * "Over my 
         earlier efforts, before the war, with a coherer, I will 
         draw a veil, as my best DX was about 200 yards!"

         pre 1914  list of experimental calls  WTWatkins notebook 
         & AR

         1912  POH, later VIH - crystal receiver & 5KW Balsillie
	 system PMG  Navy 1915  1912 Balsillie receiver primary
	 and secondary tuning and three switched crystals - The 
         Seawatchers *

         1918?  Newspaper cutting ex 7DX  club formed

         1924  HRGregory in Tas not long ago - Tas Mail 4/6/24 * - 
         Responsible for formation of Tas Div WIA - article 
         includes photo of AWA TX [I've seen his photo with AWA 
         people? was he in Hobart when AWA took over VIH?]
         H Rigby Gregory NSW Councillor (about 1923) - AR Aug85 
         p20

         1925  Demo last Sunday [before 21/5/25? not good

         March 1935  WIA field day Campell Town  AR Dec 85 p43
         7PA &AL? had photos of CT fd on back of shack door at 
         Seymour St, Newtown [ex Weekly Courier?]

         Sept 61  WIA Exhibit Hobart  5-9/9/61  AR Dec 61 p7

         ????  Moorhouse had photos of meeting outside Medhursts 
         near Fitzgeralds in Collins St  7BT with them in 1953??