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From: ae411@yfn.ysu.edu (Richard Baker)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Wellington Radio
Date: 25 Aug 1993 06:33:34 GMT
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
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Reply-To: ae411@yfn.ysu.edu (Richard Baker)
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     In a QSL veri letter I received today, Graham Turner, the
manager of Wellington [Marine] Radio, New Zealand, (ZLW) stated the
station will close on September 30, 1993.
 
     Mr. Turner did not give a reason for the closing.
 
     Wellington Radio has long bent over backwards to answer QSL
requests from UTE's, and its sad to see them go. Some may remember
last year when the station actually wrote into Popular
Communications giving their *correct* address, as some utility
QSL'ers had been sending their requests to a wrong address! Not too
many folks like that left in the world I'm afraid.
 
     If you would like to add Wellington Radio, ZLW, to your logs
or utility QSL collection you had best hurry, another HF station is
about to be lost to history.
 
     Here in eastern Ohio, they have been heard fairly regularly on
6501.0 Khz, USB after 0100 UTC (some nights a few weeks ago better
than USCG Portsmouth!). Also on 8737.0 Khz, USB after 0700 UTC.
 
     USB frequencies are: 2153, 2601, 4378, 4384, 4429, 6501, 6513,
8737, 8752, 13101, 13146, 17257, 17350, 22732, and 22801 Khz
 
     CW frequencies are: 4277.0, 6393.0, 6449.5, 8504.0, 12740.0,
17170.0, and 22533.0
 
     SITOR frequencies: 4211.0, 4212.0, 6315.0, 8417.0, 8418.0,
12580.0, 12581.0, 16807.5, 16808.5, 22377.0, and 22378.0
 
     The address is:
 
     Wellington Radio
     P.O. Box 17-374
     Karori, Wellington
     New Zealand
 
 
-- 
Rick Baker (ae411@yfn.ysu.edu)
Recorded live and direct from downtown Austintown, Ohio