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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