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FISTS Down Under - General
Information
* History of FISTS
* How FISTS was named
* Wellington Radio - ZLW Centenary
- 2011, Radio New Zealand Broadcast
* Daylight Saving and Standard Time
* BBC Discovery Broadcast of Radio
Messages Exchanged during the RMS Titanic Disaster
* RMS Titanic Power Point Display
* Outside Broadcast from Brisbane
Maritime Museum - Titanic Commemoration
* CQ Magazine article on Mobile operation
featuring ZL1CDX Turner
* This BBC Radio 4 program, deals with
the Invention of Radio.
* ABC Radio Western Australia
interview with Allan Gibbs VK6PG
* FDU Suggested Club Calling
Frequencies
History
of FISTS
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The FISTS Club, (International Morse
Preservation Society) was founded in 1987 by Geo Longden G3ZQS of
Darwen, Lancs England, after recognizing a need for a club in which
veteran operators would help newcomers and less-experienced operators
learn and improve CW proficiency. During the first year, membership
reached 300, most of whom were in Great Britain and Europe.
The North American chapter was formed in 1990 to assist 11 members in
the USA receive the newsletter and as a banking convenience. Nancy Kott
WZ8C of Hadley, Michigan was named US representative, a position she
still holds but she now handles the affairs of over 2,000 members in
the Americas.
The New Zealand / Australia Chapter was formed in 1998 to provide a
similar service to Australasian members, with Ralph Sutton ZL2AOH as
the VK/ZL representative. From a VK/ZL membership of four, there are
now over 107 members "Down Under", in Australia and some 33 New Zealand
members. The Australian membership is the largest in any country
outside England and
Wales and North America.
World wide, FISTS members now number over 4500 members, growing by up
to 100 each month. Membership to FISTS Down Under is welcome - click here to
Join!
The FISTS Club is one amateur radio's fastest growing organisations.
It's an unique club, founded and maintained on solid principles using
radio's oldest and yet most reliable communications mode - CW
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How FISTS
got its name - by founder Geo Longden G3ZQS
I used to be a member of TOPS before it went out. Quote on their banner
was "Where FISTS Make Friends". A "FIST", as you know, is nothing more
than a CW operator's reference to another operator's keying
characteristic. Phil (TOPS founder/secretary) was delighted when I told
him of the connection though he was later to follow his XYL and his
beloved dog, but I will never forget the enthusiasm which came back
from his old vibro.
73 de Geo.
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Wellington
Radio - ZLW Centenary 2011, Radio New Zealand Broadcast
The Spectrum program was broadcast on National Radio at noon on Sunday
17 July 2011. You can hear it again by clicking HERE
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Daylight
Saving and Standard Time
Click
here for series of articles on Daylight
Saving and Standard Time - Click on each article title.
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BBC
Discovery broadcast about radio messages exchanged during the RMS
Titanic disaster
You can listen to this interesting broadcast by Clicking Here
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RMS
Titanic Power Point Display
You can download the presentation by Clicking Here
You need Microsoft Power Point to view the presentation.
As the file is large (5 Mb) it may take a while to download, so please
be patient
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Outside
Broadcast from Brisbane Maritime Museum - Titanic Commemoration
To mark 100 years since the sinking of the Titanic, the
612 ABC Brisbane radio station Drive program mounted a special
broadcast at the Queensland Maritime Museum (which also has the
exhibition Tragedy at Sea - Titanic 100).
You can listen to the 46 minute broadacast again by clicking Here
... it's a large file featuring Titanic enthusiast Robert Martin,
President of the Australasian Marine Pilots Institute Peter Lily, VK4BCM
Bevan McAleer FISTS #n9053 from the Qld
Telecommunications Museum and Mission to Seafarers Captain Dave Ellis
and Adrian Willes.
Bevan’s interview is about two thirds into the broadcast.
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CQ
Magazine article on Mobile operation featuring ZL1CDX Turner #9048
"Copyright 2013 CQ Communications, Inc.; Reprinted by permission."
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This
BBC Radio 4 program, deals with the Invention of Radio
This 40 minute program was first broadcast by BBC 4 on 7 July
2013. To listen to it CLICK HERE
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Allan
Gibbs VK6PG - The lost art of Morse Code
Jillian, an interviewer and presenter from the ABC AM radio station in
Perth, Western Australia interviews Allan Gibbs VK6PG #9018 on the
subject of the Lost Art of Morse Code. Click Here
FDU
Suggested Club Calling Frequencies
SUGGESTED FISTS CLUB CALLING FREQUENCIES
1.808 MHz (160m) – 3.528 MHz (80m) – 7.028 MHz (40m) –
10.118 MHz (30m) – 14.058 MHz (20m) – 18.085
MHz (17m) – 21.058 MHz (15m) – 24.908 MHz (12m) – 28.058 MHz (10m).
Members are reminded that the above frequencies are suggested calling
frequencies. If they are busy, it is
suggested that once you establish contact with a station, it may be
prudent to change frequency down the band,
avoiding other calling frequencies of known clubs.
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