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Tasmanian radio amateurs’ field day at Campbell Town Weekly Courier Thursday April 11 1935 page 51 Notes on the photographs from VK7PP received 29 June 1995 Charles – Hope you manage to get the Weekly Courier page our of the plastic tube. The field day was originally thought of by Cliff Parish 7CP who got his ticket November 1932. (I got mine March ’32) & we done everything together for a few years. He & I talked about a field day & got Jack Batcheler (7JW) interested & it just grew from there. Hope you can read that. This biro may be easier on the eyes. The picture on the top right hand side of the page will give you some idea of the ‘old boys’ The eleven standing up starting from the right are VK7LZ no comment VK7BQ licenced about 1935 very well known in the north for his excellent musical programs on 200 metres every Sunday (9am to 11am & 3pm to 5pm). Worked a lot of DX in the early days and later was on 144 MHz and 50MHz VK7CK Another from the 1920s father of the present 7CK at Deloraine at the time he owned a property at Natone. He generated power for his transmitter from a creek on his property. CP Like myself started off with ’45 valve osc on 80 metres. Worked on and built one of the early BC stations & worked on Tasmanian BC stations all his life. 7X: A prominent NW coast amateur. Hope I’m on this one. JB A very prominent Hobart amateur. Joined the military pre-war and ended up a Major. His XYL VK7YL still keeps her amateur ticket. XFM The call he used before call signs were officially organised. I forget his other call. He made part of history on the 3 July 1901 by making a 2 way contact with a Mr W P Hallam with HMS St George & HMS Juno as they were coming in to Hobart. They operated from One Tree Point – Sandy Bay. The HMS ships were escorting the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall who were on a visit to Australia. Can’t remember this one Sorry about this a neighbour came in and messed things up. 9 is Peter Allen you will see him in another photo on the page 7JW Had a motor workshop at Longford .7CP and myself used to ride out to his place of a night to see his gear – push bike job 7JH Jack Hooker was at Waddamana in its early days. The 4 in the lower part are Val Sydes who started as a boy at 7LA. Crosby Walsh 7CW is next. Not sure but I think? Valentine an amateur is next but Tom Allen should know him and the last one is 7RC from Burnie who joined the RAAF & stayed in VK3 after the war. He died recently. This project has ended in a bit of a mess so I hope you can get something of interest from it. Every time I start to do anything I get interrupted and everything goes haywire. All the photos were taken with a Kodak folding camera which took a postcard size photo. Of the 15 in the picture I was rambling on about eleven and possibly twelve are now deceased. Just found my list of a lot of VK7 amateurs showing the year they received their licences 7AA later 7DX thought to be 1921 The AA was taken from him for Government use 7AG 1921 7AR 1922/23 7AG,7AR,7AS,7BC,7BT,7BK all prior to 1926 7BQ 1926 7CW 1926 7JB 1932 7LA (an amateur) 1926 7LJ Lou Jensen 1925 7OM Bob O’May 1923 7NC Neville Campbell 1932 7CK 1932 7CL 1936 7MC 1927 7JW 1931/32 7CJ 1935 7LZ 1933 Certificate no. 1099