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[HCDX] RNZI MAILBOX SPECIAL
Adrian Sainsbury, Technical Manager of Radio New Zealand
International has advised me of the following special broadcast on
RNZI Mailbox
Regards
Mark Nicholls
Editor
New Zealand DX Times Magazine
New Zealand Radio DX League
http://www.radiodx.com/
Sample copy of electronic version of the NZ DX Times available at
http://www.radiodx.com/spdxr/edxt.htm
In addition to the National Radio Spectrum broadcast times on 25
April ANZAC Day, RNZI will play this programme as a "Mailbox
Special" on Monday May 03, 2004.
It will also be available for download from our Audio page.
Kind regards
Adrian
'Germany Calling'
In 1941 two agents from New Zealand's Security Intelligence Bureau
asked amateur radio enthusiast Jack Fox to monitor enemy radio
broadcasts and pass on information to the government.
Jack and other DXers Such as Arthur Cushen, formed a network of
eavesdroppers on enemy transmissions from Europe the middle east and
Japan. The Dxers were also able to pick up lists and messages from
New Zealand prisoners of war well before they were received here
officially. Many wives, mothers and fathers had their minds eased by
news over shortwave that their loved ones were still alive but
imprisoned. Both Jack Fox And Arthur Cushen met people they knew on
the street and told them that their son or husband had been captured.
By the end of the war over 6000 messages had been relayed home from
POWs by amateur radio operators.
Best Regards
Adrian Sainsbury
Technical Manager
Radio New Zealand International
P O Box 123
Wellington
Web: www.rnzi.com
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