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The front page of Spero Davias's Hunter Street website

Spero Davias’s Hunter Street project

Businessman, electronics whiz, ham radio enthusiast, Greek culture aficionado, family man and keen historian of Newcastle's Hunter Street. With so many passions no wonder the recent passing of Spero Davias caused such a reaction in his home city of Newcastle, NSW. He'd been on my long list of people I had wanted to interview for a blog post on this website and when I heard he'd gone I kicked myself for missing the chance to talk to him about his remarkable life and, especially, the extraordinary website he created to document the history of Hunter Street,…

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Read more about the article Loud and clear: ham radio’s calling cards

Loud and clear: ham radio’s calling cards

Rummaging around collections of old photographs and postcards I have often wondered about these peculiar cards, emblazoned with strange letters and numbers, that sometimes turn up, usually in groups of several. I could guess they were connected with amateur, or "ham" radio operators, but their purpose remained a mystery until recently, after I found a few more, when I decided to find out about them. It didn't take long to discover that they are known as "QSL" cards and that radio operators use them to let one another know when they have received each other's signals.…

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