VK7LZ.txt From a recording made in 1995? Col Wright 7LZ and Ray Kilby 7RK ... he played programs on the 200M band Mother died 1934/5 I had built 4 valve rcvr I lived in boarding house until 1939 I had read about crystal set could only afford one headphone 7BC was on the air on Sunday afternoon records he was in Frederick St Another friend I was building sets from 1925 when I was about 12 he later became 7PF and alerted me to the fact that I could become an amateur I knew Crooksey and Scotty I was about 14 I sat in November 32 and got on air in 1933 When I had to go boarding Lorenz coils draw two circles and put nails in them and use heaviest wire and tie each crossover with cotton valve set tuned by condenser When went boarding tx had single valve built Hartley asked if could put up aerial Boarding house son in law worked at railway and helped me make a rack I had 2 X 32 triodes and crystal Bright Star worked France on 10 RK when I got my ticket in 35 you were still in high school Regen detector and audio at first later photo TRF later built a superhet aerial sway altered rregen setting RK Only book of any value was ARRL PMG had little advice Saw Lon Jensen a lot in Hobart Lon was working on history when he died 7XA was at Uni shot himself 8 schoolteachers in boarding house 1939 telegram came at 2 in morning I tried to get a last contact before morning but no luck Had to box rig up and send in Built that?? Showed log of all records played on 200M Copyright never mentioned Performing rights assoc came much later Very good detailed log got dozens of reports from ZL output about 8 watts very detailed reports RK everything quiet no interfering stations only noise arc welders 7JG and I keen on 2m etc Joe says noise comes up when beaming at city RK no comparison noise today and then electrical noise on 500KCs Knight St early 1930s listened to PCJ4 in Holland every morning 3 or 4 valves Philips 442 Rf partition 415 det 409 and 415 sold in end to Bill Nichols and the corporal at drome (went in caravan to middle of aus for 1st air race) later sent to Western Junction DH86s DH coming in lost track of it passenger put head through fabric ceiling RK 2 trailers 1 generators 1 radios big masts and aerial RK lost miss hobart dh86 and another mainly get bearings RK started later than col Hobart one xmas 34 met jack batchelor ARRL hbk ticket in april 35 did not go out one night! had 1 valve a415 rx swotted very hard no soul to teach you or ask questions built a hartley osc which didn't work put it under my arm an went to see Col Col - AR no one ever heard music before ww1 7PF was in RFC and followed on with radio Phil Fysh Len Crooks took me to see Phil every b class station in aus was built by amateurs Ron Hope 7RS built 7HO 3rd story in Eliz St 7LA 1930? Val Sides mg dir 7la eng later was ernie cooper val and i going to tech together vals mother gave him enough money to buy variable condneser teacher banged our head together Val never went back to school 7LA was AWA gear 7CP and I did 60 mph in Vals Chev Later went over bridge at Fingal all killed Bcast band microphone in steel box Rhubarb didnt pass ticket cos spent all time answering first question my computer died and i lost a good bit here very active on vhf had 4 16 el yagis on 432 too sharp 300 hf countries passive repeater rsgb bulletin 1 city had passive repeater peter frith and i decided where had semaphore repeater from windmill hill built 4 band xtal locked converter fed it into that hang agc photo 6M rig with 807 official war artist came round in darwin drew this for me 1945 had 200 bed hospital i was the storekeeper for it + 200 for yanks working through satellite 7kr 7kp charlie robinson his plane thats a dutch plane thats my 64 el aerial gordon kirmsy? 7kf now dead vk7 won rd trophy when we were running personal contact with every amateur 4 work as many as possible and the rest just enough to enter - the other states couldn't work too many vk7s won it again next year then they changed the rules col - i had the first ar mag but lost it at an exhibition barry 7be got all my qst mags some newcomers only interested in digital oldsters broader interest on air for 60 years ray had rtty before me tape 3 Ray - morse programs 1962 hamfest photo check identities gave me photo 1950 gear superhet rx 20M am modulator 20M coil plug in coils 6M class c wavemeter variable power supply 2M commercial rig command rx 2m converter Ray - 1 rx I built had 50kc ifs certificate worked 1000 on satellite (7pf too) Athol Johnson long wire aerial half mile across gully very cluey precision lathes built them Jack Hooker (was at Waddamana licensed before me 7JH) Jack Wallis, Peter Allen, dunno, Pop Medhurst, Jack Batchelor, George Groves? Poley Clark 1933/4 Len Crooks (cap on) at front Val Sides, Crosby Walch, Keith Valentine, Ron Cannon 7RC(went to Melb) made by 7PF after first world war insulators made at Cambells pottery Clarrie Pertrie and Launceston Roar My son taught on King Island for a few years and I wandered round the remains of Fr Shaws station [son Gerald] notes about wia and radio Bill Tanner started as historian He'll tell about 7BN buggered up by upsetting batteries first ouside broadcast from Church Ron Hope flew moth 5LP wrote to me wanted info I got niggley rough notes