Interpreting Morse Transmissions

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 32, 22 February 1929, Page 32

Interpreting Morse Transmissions

Warning to Listeners T is contrary to the New Zealand Government radio regulations for any radio listener to divulge the context of any morse or radio telephone messages they may chance to pick up, which are not intended for general information. The secretary of the London G.P.O. has thought fit to issue the following warning:-The PostmasterGeneral’s attention has been called to tke publication, in the London press, of several letters from correspondents concerning their interception of transAtlantic telephony, and he directs me to point out that the deliberate interception of such messages is contrary to eondition (1) of wireless receiving licenses (and a corresponding condition in experimental licenses) which reads as follows :- 1, The licensee shall not allow the station to be used for any purpose other than that of receiving in the premises occupied by the licensee broadcast programmes and messages sent for general reception and messages sent from an experimental sta-

hh i i ii, i ie a a tion in connection with experiments carried out by the licensee. J£ a licensee in the course of his wireless reception happens to intercept a private message, he is specifically forbidden to divulge it or allow it to be divulged to any unauthorised person. ‘The relative condition of the license reads as follows :- 4, The licensee shall not divulge or allow to be divulged to any person (other than a duly authorised officer of His Majesty’s Government or a cor" petent legal tribunal) or make any ui whatsoever of any message receivedks by means of the station other than proadeast matter sent out for general reception, and messages sent from an experimental station in connection with experiments carried out by the licensee. As it seems possible that there may be some misapprehension in regard to the interception or divulging of private messages which are being transmitted by wireless telegraph or wireless telephone services, the Postmaster-General wishes to draw attention to the license conditions quoted above.