DISTANCE ANNIHILATED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1926, Page 10

DISTANCE ANNIHILATED.

ANOTHER WIRELESS RECORD.

TWO-HOUR TALK WITH ENGLAND.

BROTHER AND SISTER CONVERSE

(By Telegraph.—Special to " Star.") DUXEDIN, this'day. As Miss Bell declares, it is most annoying when one cannot fulfil an engagement to have a talk with friends over 12,000 miles away. On Sunday Dight this wireless enthusiast at Shag Valley tried to get in contact with England, as per engagement fixed a week before, but for the first half-hour station F could not "meet."

At 5 p.m., however, she got into communication with England and for two hours she conversed o\ - er the air. "Wireless communication with England is an everyday aifair and anybody with a reasonably decent set can speak to stations in the Old Country," she said. Miss Bell was pleased that she had managed to have a long talk with her brother, Mr. F. D. Bell, but she disparaged any suggestion of it being a feat.

Using a 150-watt input on a 33J-metre wave length, Miss Bell had spoken to G2OD, England, during the previous week and had arranged that her brother, who has made ■wireless history for New Zealand, should speak to her for half an hour. Miss Bell's endeavours to "meet" •were unsuccessful, and she was annoyed that she could not keep the engagement?By a stroke of fortune, she tuned in later. She was communicating with Sydney when she "met" an Englishman with whom Mr. Bell had communicated eighteen months ago.

The man from station G2ZS was speaking to Tasmania and he told Miss Bell that her brother was waiting at station G2NM, in Surrey, where he was spending the week-end with the vicepresident of the International Radio League. Using Morse, Miss Bell was delighted at her successful efforts to chat with her brother, who gave the latet news of friends and doings.

Miss Bell stated <ihat telephones were more difficult to use, particularly for long distance work, but she hoped to telephone England at a later date. Although two-way communication with England has been maintained before, this conversation of two hours is unpre-. cedented.