RAAF 1925 Australia

An operator at the Royal Australian Air Force station heard Z2AV calling A5KN.

I was struck with this card in a number of ways:
(1) the proforma portion printed on photographic paper;
(2) a RAAF official station contacting an amateur station (permissible at the time, but not a lot of examples survive);
(3) the use of the A5 prefix in Victoria (more usually A3);
(4) Point Cook's association with wireless goes all the way back to Henry Walter Jenvey's earliest experiments in 1901;
(5) Point Cook's association with wireless even stronger when a flying school was established there in WW1 and conducted some of Australia's earliest aeronautical wireless experiments;
(6) Point Cook in the late 1920's became the main guard station for the RAAF Wireless Reserve.

QSL from the estate of ZL2AV
Courtesy of VK1DXA
Info courtesy of VK1DXA