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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1954.
"If I'd painted it Un a horse and signed it 'Munnings' they'd have accepted it.”
The Royal Academy Budimor Kihlbliken opetir tomorrow.
London Express Service
JOHN JECKWAY HAS A FASCINATING HOBBY
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OIN Jeckway in
"ham." That doesn't
By TOM EYTON
fined by low and not by nature
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to talk about the weather.
Now there is a lot more this mifteur radio hobby than meets the erd It might seem
mean he's a bad actor - simply that he is An amateur radio rather silly for a mar to spend
enthusiast. When all son-
the early hours of the morning talking to Bamebody he has sible people are In bed, never seen In his life before. Juckway picks up
his hut Just try it once and you ge! talks microphone and
to que a kick out of H I spent
15 minutes
Tulking ki Jizt He holds
the Swirbourne,
An engineer in delicate instrument loving- Singapore, and when I paused
the world.
ly as he speaks, and no one can interrupt him until he atops to switch 01
to listen to his voice coming through loud and clear,
even
though he was 2.000 miles away,
therealued there was more
lo
receiver. What a boon to a being a "ham" than I had pre-
married mat.
thin
tradi-s
viously thought,
Amateur radio 15 not just useless hobby. It has proven, and still is proving, Esell us a vil menns when alf authorised have failed. Remember horole
Kurt
Intrepid Corten,
the
communication channels
EMERGENCY
CARLSEN'S Daly
"bama," and John treasures blm example
u
card
by Carlsen.
means
sent
land, greatly distressed
Te
had no idea
by the that their
son was alive and on his way home to them.
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The soldier was anxious
DS
safe
had of
fo cause his parents any dis- Ireas and he wanted 1 thum know he wus
possible. But bow? John Jeck why the 71swer In 2 matter minutes he was through to "ham" in the boy's home town. He gave him the news and the ham" ruted away to get the soldier's parents,
who later to speak to their son, be- Leved dead, over the "adu.
were
The relief and pleasure which the POW and his parents must have felt at that moment must have been ample TWWH all John Jeckway's offoris,
A SHOCK
for
Mr Beckway looks on as his young daughter tries out her voice
F you enter Mr Jockway's at-
across oceana and deserts to Atractive flat and aro ushered lands near and for. into the room
And where he keeps
Mr Jeckway has
put his box of tricks, you will get this magic box together him- quite a shock. You step from self, He describes amateur radio an ordinary well-kept flat inte a fantastic jungle of wires and cords, of valves und batteries,
wireless
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prise sinking with a tiny figure
still gallantly clinging to dock
with
the
world. China also
The
days of communication Communist dominated countries is over. It was as far back as 1951 that Russia allowed her people to talk freely to the outside banned amateur radio communi- cation that same
year. It sull possible to speak to the Communist countries, but ал for a reply well, to quote Mr Molotov's famous word the answer is "No."
Is
There are "hams" all over the world, and for those interested in Igures there are 180,000 in the world, 100,000 in the U.S.A., 4,000 In the United Kingdom, and 25 in Hongkong. And a gentleman by the name of N. Chakravarti, of
Indian Mission in Tibet, also, talks to the world from his lofty outpost.
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"Hams" have a system of call
For signs.
Instances: "88" means "Love and kisses," "YL"
the "Ham" is means that young lady-no doubt an added inducement for communication.
"XYL" means "Wife" and "73" means "best regards,"
UP AT 2
The homely voice of tall,
Southampton - hom Jeckway has been heard all over the world, From sunny Singapore to the frozen skipper of the Flying Enter- wastes of Alaska...
from prive, who fought against odda to save his crippled ship when the democratic United
she sank off the coast of Eng- States to the countries land in Jamuury 19527 behind the Iron Curtain ... from stately, tional England to the roof
as a selentine hobby, a means world, of the
of gaining personal. skill in the mysterious
art of electronics and an oppor- Tibet, in all these places,
of
of old second hund
unity to communicate with men and women too, have
communication from the equipment and noise high fellow amateurs scattered all
and over listened to Johnny deckway sinking verse)
whining sounda
the Was through pitched,
World by private then comes the short-wave radio. chatting about Honekone's
Jockway creetches,
biggest shock of all, when weather und The latest
cultarred voice says
Amateur radio started in "This is football scores in England.
Alaska. of contact through and wonder.
and you just stand
very humble way. Now it has
MATEUR radio is not large and powerful organisa- amateur radio was the famous
A sort of hobby that you take up tions to protect the Interests of Kon TIKI
expedition, which Mr Jeckway obliged me with "home" and special magazines
whenever you have a quiet hour all amateur radio enthusiasts throughout its perilous journey a wonderfully technical de are published und there are 150,000 in the
across the Pacific kept in touch scription,
telling a "ham" to spare. You must do it at a and so too äld Mr everything he wants to know, time when conditions are best world—that subjeels such as with the clvilised world by Swinbourne from Singapore, from politics, religion and business
where to buy the latest suited. For laatanes, amateur radio.
but I still haven't a clue what equipment to the code number time to communicate with Eng- should not be discussed over
Mr Jockway was also able to it was all about. In one corner of Prince Tulal of Saudi-Arabia. and la at 2 o'clock in the morn- the air. This makey chat help in an emergency quite re- stands a fair-sized box with all
ing, which means that the wife between two "hums," separated cently when the first batch of kinds of wires leading from it.
When "hams"
communicate of a "hem” has a great deal to by thousands of miles, sound war prisoners came from Korca. This is the receiver, through
for the first time, they send put up with rather like small talk at a One man had boon reported which messages
are received.
other A greeting card, cocktali party. But let's be fair missing. and was presumed to Opposite stands another box known to the fraternity as QSL Mrs Jeckway was Don- to the "hums"--they are con- be killed, His parents in Eng- which sends out the voice carde, Mr Jeckway bas a committal on the subject, yet colourful array of those cards, her general attitudo seemed to All are different in design and be one of approval, After all colour, and they represent sho benefits substantially by her hundreds of calls he has made. husband's hobby, for it enables
her to mother in England.
talk regularly to her
It is an unwritten rule among
-
Another
each
a
the
the best
A card from France, for in stance, shows a beautiful girl trying in vain to entice a "hem"
Mr Jeckway's pretty little from his beloved radio. But daughter has also tried her voice there he sita twiddling the radio. er "wiren," "・ and Mr Jeckway switchos дя he MCOTTIS the recalled hor Бросс curvacious damsel's obvious at brother when she was awakened tractions.
Jate at night to come and say "Hello, I am so tired: I'm going back to bed, goodbye."
NO REPLY
to her
A missionary in New Guinea
· has' ample ́rellson to be grateful
ANOTHER interesting card to Mr Jockway. The missiooey
comes from Myron Zobel, a bought a Land Rover, and though wealthy American, who goes on # good man of the church ho is safari and then serbe up an not so hot as a mechanic,
and amateur radio in some hitherto repeatedly
asked he has
Mr uminown "sham'ed" spol. His feckway for advice over
over the card to Jockway came from Wirel As the missionary is Kathmandu, in Nepal.
In Now Duinen, hp is unable to But the best cards,
in my
'get any experth in to help him. opinion, came from the Iron he leaves # all to John Curtain countries, All of them... Jockway.
show: tractors resping: bumper Whother a "hindi" wet, is a harvests with, were looking super deshire "100, bought for too healthy to live. One card metrods of deters, or whether from
bynkia:
mach peized vera troia Carlson de per anggota which shows in Htyle
up đờin the abctioă
Across the Atlantic, Britons "prepare for a new life
PIONEER MINUS PIANO
By Gordon Donaldson
Halifax (Nova Scotia). MARL WRIGLEY, 1 spry
Cal-your-old with a wife
and two growing daughters, has no home, no job--and
no piano today.
He is only really concern-
ed about the piano.
It stood until two weeks ago-in the front room of Carl and Phyllis Wrigley's house in Wallasey.
It was the symbol of security, the symbol of Carl's way of life. A good, steady clerking job with the Gas Board. two girls Joyce, 15, and Beryl, 12. at grammer school. A pon- sion to look forward to.
OFF TO THE WEST
The
TODAY that is The Past to
The Wetley silly as they Mf
to
in the transcontinental irain thundering westwards Edmonton. Alberta-the town the Canadian humigration officer told them was booming.
They lunches 1:1 Halifax emigrants They had pretty mugh Telp 7,434-on Nova Scotia.
the
When
I first saw Carl-alone on deck because all the family were sick --he was grinning weakly. "I think the reason so many chaps make good in Canada is because they can't face the trip back.
Bul today the emigrant Wrigleys Are the immigrant Wrigleys. New Canadians-full of the confidence of Canada.
"Back home," said Curl as he boarded the westbound train, "they think I'm mad. But what do 1 want with a pension-only just over 40?
"The worst thing, you know, was parting with that plano.
"But if get a job only com- parable with the one I've left I'll be happy. I'll be saving-- and I'll have shown the wife und girls a bit of the world."
EMIGRANTS ALL
QUCH is the kind of confidence that has brought more than Carl to Canada-Stan Lawley, for Instance, the 29-year-old", six-footer from Fulham who mid as they ushered him out of the Nova Scotia's first class (nɔ emigrants)
the lounge
other' night:
"Let 'em, I'll be worth more than that lot put together in a couple of ucars,”
Stan
an
ex-Post Ofice engineer. But the plans are all the same whether you are an ex-policeman from Liverpool or an ex-clerk from Wallasey.
Got a job any job, Get ON. And get a better plans better front room.
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