NZ Net News 148, 21 Dec 2024

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Featured key

United States President John F Kennedy officially opened the Seattle World’s Fair by pressing a telegraph key in Palm Beach, Florida, on 21 April 1962.

The key, studded with Canadian gold, had been used by President Herbert Hoover in 1932, to open another Seattle attraction, the six-lane George Washington Memorial Bridge.

In 1909, William Howard Taft was the first US President to use the key when he signaled the opening of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition – also in Seattle.

* If you have an interesting key for this feature, please send a nice clear photo and a few words describing it.

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Happy holidays!

Wishing all our NZ Net News readers a very happy holiday season, and many more CW contacts in 2025.

Apologies for the abbreviated NZ Net News. Your editor is on holiday after a very busy year.

Your contributions of articles and/or photos will help us keep the newsletter going in 2025 so feel free to contact me with any ideas, or questions about what’s needed.

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Photo flashback

John Karlsen SM6UA was one of Sweden’s most prominent DXers in 1930. The woman in the photo is understood to be his wife.

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Audio feature: High Speed Telegraphy Championship

The BBC has produced a documentary about this year’s HST World Championships, held in Tunisia. It’s well worth a listen.

Duration: 27:16. Published 8 Dec 2024

[ LISTEN ]

Pictured: Scutaru Ianis Alexandru of Romania, who set a new world record in the RUFZ (callsign receiving) Category B in Tunisia, with an incredible score of 311,192 points and a max speed of 1126 characters per minute (around 200 wpm)!

If you have a Facebook account, you can see a nice video of the HST in Tunisia

[ WATCH VIDEO ]

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