SHORT-WAVE RADIO.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 65, 18 March 1930, Page 9

SHORT-WAVE RADIO.

I SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS LIKELY. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. The researches made by the radio scientists cf the Byrd Antarctic Expedition will lead to the solution of manv of the mysteries of short-wave transmission, says Mr. G. G. Samson-, a student of Canterbury College, who spent nine weeks in the'Elcanor Boiling a3 a radio operator.

Mr. Samson said the radio equipment on the Eleanor Boiling was the most up-to-date to be found anywhere, and ten times better than anything installed on the big cargo beats. '"After a week of practice,"' he said, 'T was able to work any part of the world. My main job was to attend to the ship's business messages with New Zealand and other vessels, for all the scientific radio experiments were carried out in Little America. A great deal was discovered at Bvrd's base, and a good many problems were solved. The conditions for experiments were ideal iiig Little America, for the reaS ® J * that there were season of perfect light and perfect <!a:!:ne>s. and exhaustive re.-ouic'.i ecu!il ierricd cut undsr sacli condition. enabling an excellent comparison to*be made. This work was also helped vastly by the complete absence of interference in the way of electrical installations. .which work such havoc with tr;iii.-m!-sk'iJ and reception in populated