[Ham radio station call sign cards to and from ZL2HI]

Object detail

Accession number

04/001/093

Maker

Leslie Ernest Birch

Description

Signal cards sent to radio station ZL2HI and compiled by the station's operator Leslie Birch. Includes calling cards from New Zealand, Australia and numerous other countries. Also includes blank examples of ZL2HI's station. Some of the cards include correspondence and enclosed photographs.

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Paper

Physical description

3 outsize boxes

Record level

Series

Collection

Leslie Birch Collection

Credit line

Leslie Ernest Birch. [1930s]. [Ham radio station call sign cards to and from ZL2HI], 04/001/093. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

Current rights

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Classification

Device, Visual Signaling Card, Signal Tools & Equipment for Communication Visual Communication T&E Visual Communication Devices

Subject: all levels

Amateur radio stations Radio broadcasting Radio Radio operators

Collection type

Ephemera and manuscripts Walsh Memorial Library

Subject auto tags

Handwriting Signature Font Rectangle Art Poster Parallel Academic certificate Paper Paper product

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Name: Amateur Radio Operations Aid the 1933 Tasman Crossing by the Southern Cross Summary/Abstract: Aviation tours captured the imagination of the New Zealand public, with Tasman crossings increasingly carried out in the 1930s after the first successful crossing in 1928 by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. In January 1933 Kingsford Smith made another crossing, flying between Sydney and New Plymouth in Fokker F.VII ‘Southern Cross’ with co-pilot Patrick Gordon Taylor and radio operator John Stannage. Subject category: Shortwave radio, Radio stations, Radio operators, Radio, Flight radio operators, Radio equipment, Southern Cross (Airplane), Fokker Tri-Motor F.VIIB-3M (Southern Cross) See full details

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