RADIO CORPS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 278, 19 July 1932, Page 2

RADIO CORPS

SEVERAL N.Z. STATIONS PARTICIPATE IN FIELD . DAY. ROTORUA AMATEURS ASSIST. A national field-day was held ori Sunday by the New Zealand Radic Emergency Corps under the leadership of the ofRcer commanding, Captain Ashbridge, at Wellington. The Rotorua section participatec with excellent results. The loca] base station was established at Rotorua ZLIER, and the emergency transmitting outpost station, ZLIEP, was taken to an imaginary catastrophe at the northern end of Lake Rotorua, Mr. Len Shaw lcindly making his private car available for transport. The outpost station left Rotorua ai 10 a.m., and communication with the base was eompleted at 11 a.m. Contact was kept up all day until closing down at 3.30 p.m. Traffic messages were handled by both stations inwards and outwards to all parts oi the Dominion. In all, 34 stations spread throughout the islands, participated, and the chain was so complete that noofailures to make contact resulted. With the permission of the Posi and Telegraph Department the wave length of 100 to 105 metres -has been allotted to these stations: Sunday being the first timo the allotted wave length has been used. It will be now permanently granted to this corps, To illustrate the efficiency of the local emergency outfit, tests were made on Saturday evening preparatory to the field-day, and communication was readily made with Invercargill, with 90 volts, using one watt of power. For the information of the public generally the local emergency station is available at any time of the day or night for emergency calls. All public and local bodies are being circularised as to the purposes of the coj-ps, and the location of the local emergency equipment. To complete Sunday's tests a message of 30 words was originated from the Rotorua base station and despatcbed throughout all sections to Invercargill. The following local amateur transmitters participated : — ZLIBG, ZLIBN, ZLICL, ZLIG'L, ZLIGT.