AT THE RADIO.
CONTINUOUS DUTY
emergency set used,
The three wireless operators on the Tahiti had a trying time, but they are very modest and refuse to say muc i about the mishap. The chief operator, Mr. F. N. Davidson, stated that the main set on board was capable of sending messages over a distance of GOOO miles, but owing to the trouble in the engine room, which affected the dynamos, it could only be used at intervals. An emergency set was on the boat deck, with a wave-length of 600 metres. This was able to communicate with the island stations. Another set was installed in one of the lifeboats.
"I was amused," said Mr. Davidson, "to find that a statement has been attributed to me to the effect that the Tahiti went down nose first. It was so palpably untrue. I saw the Tahiti sink and, as evedybody who was on board knows, she went down by the stern, with her nose high in the air.
"The wireless staff were on watch throughout the whole time of the trouble —right to the moment we abandoned ship—a space of approximately CO hours. We were all very tired and glad to go aboard the Ventura."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 209, 4 September 1930, Page 11
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204AT THE RADIO. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 209, 4 September 1930, Page 11
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