Amateurs remember famous sea battle


By Jim Linton, VK3PC
Wednesday, 02 November, 2016

Amateurs remember famous sea battle

Special event amateur radio station VI4SEA — which stands for Sydney Emden Action — is this week honouring the officers and sailors of HMAS Sydney and the SMS Emden, who engaged each other in battle on 9 November 1914 off Cocos Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean.

The battle was the first action of WWI for the Royal Australian Navy.

The VI4SEA event began yesterday, 1 November, and will continue through to 9 November.

A group of mainly ex-naval or military personnel are running it on bands from 630 metres to 6 metres.

The Deutscher Amateur Radio Club and the Emden Radio Club have promoted the event in Germany, and news of it has spread throughout the world.

The full story with pictures can be found on the qrz.com website.

Information and image courtesy WIA.

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