RADIO REVIEW

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 51, 14 June 1940, Page 55

RADIO REVIEW

Contributed by

N.Z. DX R.A. Inc.

Address all Communications P.O, Box 437, DUNEDIN.

With the Branches SOUTHLAND is on the map again. Although depleted in numbers by enlistments, the branch will catry on with confidence. The inter-branch competition between the R.A. and DX Clubs is nearly finished. The Shield is held by the latter club. Half-yearly competition winners are L, Warburton, S. BarTett arid L. Boyer. German Amateurs used as Propaganda Stations "Amateurs all over the world have been wondering why certain German amateurs were allowed to remain on the air when war started. As more of them will shortly be on the air, the following may be of interest," states "Amateur Radio" (Australia). .From a reliable correspondent in U.S.A., VK3CX learns that D4BIU, who

was until recently a student at Brown University in U.S.A., and who was on the Atlantic returning to Germany at the outbreak of war, has now obtained permission to come on the ait again, and according to this American amateur, he recently stated that a further 30 D stations would shortly be active. The German’s main mission seems to be to work with as many American amateurs as possible, The American amateurs have been asked by the A.R.R.L. not to contact amateurs in belligerent countries, but this request has not been acted upon, and the Germans can be heard in daily contact with stations in the U.S.A, They are disseminating their propaganda in this method, and the authorities in Australia may well consider the advisability of permitting certain VK _ stations to come on the air solely for thé purpose

of combating this German attempt to build up friendships with neutrals. Consider, for instance, the German amateurs contacting amateurs in U.S.A. alone-in the U.S.A. there are approximately 60,000 active amateurs. Continual contact with German stations will possibly lead the average American amateur (as well as his family and immediate friends) to believe that his newfound friend in Germany is being very harshly treated by the Allies. ‘There is then born a new enemy to the Empire instead of a friend who may possibly be retained were he permitted the opportunity of contact with his old friends in Australia.