WIRELESS EXAMINATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 598, 26 February 1929, Page 16

WIRELESS EXAMINATION

NEW REGULATIONS ENFORCED There are three candidates for wireless operators licences at the examinations which commenced at the Druleigh College Wireless School in Anzac Avenue this morning. This is the first examination held in New Zealand under the new international regulations of the International Radio-Telegraph Convention of 1927 and will occupy three days. This year, for the first time, geography features as a subject in the examination and the speed of morse reception and transmission has been raised from 20 to 25 words a minute. The importance of air services is stressed in the portion of the examination dealing exclusively with communication with aircraft and air bases and the signals devoted to this class oC traffic have increased the number to be memorised by candidates by almost threefold. In the past a candidate who failed to pass his morse test was debarred from sitting for the remainder of the examination, but this year the Post and Telegraph Department has conceded candidates the right to sit for the whole examination, irrespective of whether they fail in one portion or not. The regulations which came into force on January 1 gave holders of licences issued before that date three years to requalify and reduced the first-class licence to second-class so that in the eyes of the Washington Conference a candidate who succeeds in obtaining a first-class licence today holds a superior qualification to the man who has held a first-class licence for the past 17 years.