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Agency:
Trevor Watkins
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Start Date:
27 Mar 1899
End Date:
25 Aug 1931
Description:
(William) Trevor Watkins (known as "Wattie") was the owner of the radio/wireless stations OA-7AA and VK7DX in Hobart. He was an amateur wireless experimenter known worldwide and was president of the Wireless Institute of Australia - Tasmania Division.;;Trevor was born in 1899 in Hobart to builder William Henry and Herriett Watkins (formerly Clarke). He had a brother, Ernest Norman Watkins, and a sister, Olive Edeline (who married Wilfred Jarvis). Trevor died in 1931 from a long-term illness.;;In 1925, Trevor won the Trans-Pacific test for amateur radio operators.;;In 1929, when the state telegraph lines were out of action, Trevor Watkins' private station operated continuously over nearly two full days receiving and despatching thousands of words of press news.
Information Sources:
Mercury (Tas), Fri 28 Aug 1931, page 6;;Mercury (Tas), Sat 2 Jun 1923, page 11
Wireless Institute of Australia - Tasmanian Division (NG3517)21 Feb 192310 Sep 2004
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