Station Sponsors Esperanto

Radio Record, Volume XIII, Issue 11, 21 August 1939, Page 39

Station Sponsors Esperanto

AN _ interesting station card received at the "Record" office recently was from W7MY Esperanto parolanta Stacio, P.O. Box 607, Marshfield, Oregon, U.S.A. The station owner, L. J. Byars, has the following printed on the back of his card: The average American amateur radio operator, with presentday modern equipment, is able to contact his fellow-amateurs in all ‘parts of the world, and q encounters a multitude of dissimilar languages. The English language is not universally understood, and alto‘gether too often a foreign QSO is cut short by the lack of a means of mutual understanding. _ W7MY — advocates the more widespread : use of the international ‘language, Esperanto, American amateurs as a means of lowering the . language: barriers ‘between ourselves and :@mateurs of foreign lands. "The above applies just as much in New Zealand as in America-and not only does it apply to radio. The use of an international language, such as Esperanto, can do much towards promoting friendship among the nations,