As spotted by Henry VK2ZHE.

Here’s an article from this month’s (February’s) “The Senior” from Fairfax Regional – the article claims D’Arcy Hancock at 106 as Australia’s oldest active Amateur having been licenced as VK5RJ for 90 years!

Read the paper here – linking direct to the published article is not supported.

Henry VK2ZHE, always the radio spotter, adds:

I like the mid 1970s VK5RJ shack photo accompanying the article.  It shows a Yaesu FT-401 HF transceiver as the centre piece of the VK5RJ operating desk with a Drake SSR-1 Wadley Loop HF receiver on the shelf at the top left.  The black Icom IC-701 all solid state HF transceiver just to the left of the FT-401 is hard to discern.  All state of the art in the 1970s.

Aged Care Online also ran a story on D’Arcy turning 106 in December 2016.  Read it here.