YOUTH'S SUCCESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1927, Page 9

YOUTH'S SUCCESS.

English Lad's Talk to Antarctic Whaler. TASMANIA FOE A CHANGE. LONDON". February 21. C. W, Coyder. the well-known amateur wireless enthusiast, of Mill Hill school. i near London, has been in wireless touch on three successive Sundays with a whalin.c ship in the Antarctic seas. Yesterday he failed to locate the whaler owing to bad conditions. In consequence, he says, he contented I himself with conversing with a friend speaking from a station in Tasmania. The career of C. W. Govder. an enterprising English school boy in wireless, has been quite romantic. He became interested in wireless just alter the war, when he was in America. Being of an inventive turn of mind with limitless application, he succeeded in making a simple little crystal set out of odds and ends. This satisfied tlie youth for a time, but when lie returned to Britain he obtained what was at the time a narity, a one-valve 6et. Then it was he went to Mill Hill School, where he was encouraged in his bent by Mr. \V. \V. Brown, science master, and Mr. .lacks. headmaster, much to his benefit. He in time received messages from stations in France. Denmark, Norway, and Algeria. but his objective was to communicate with a number of radio friends in various colleges in Canada and America. He succeeded in making himself heard, and has since held long conversations in Morse with those stations. He hopes later to improve on his past achievements by direct telephony instead of Morse, through his getting into touch with Antarctica must represent almost the limit of distant communication.