TWO-WAY RADIO TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 207, 2 September 1936, Page 16

TWO-WAY RADIO TALK.

BROADCAST FROM LINER,

SHIP DESCRIBED.

Specially broadcast from all national stations last night was a two-way conversation between the Union Company's new 14,000-ton liner Awatca, which is due at Wellington to-morrow morning, and station 2YA, Wellington. The liner is on her maiden voyage from the Clyde, where she was built, to enter into the service between Australia and New Zealand. There was very little atmospheric interference, rfnd the broadcast -was' well received in Auckland.

In the ordinary manner of making a telephone call, the station in. Wellington "rang up" the Awatea and asked for the master of the ship, Captain A. H. Davey, who reported a good voyage. Ho said that the trip across the Atlantic was .uneventful, but shortly after passing through the Panama Canal and entering the Pacific, the liner encountered an exceptionally severe electrical storm-, which lasted for about three hours. Various members of the public were introduced in the studio and spoke to Captain Davey, the chief engineer and the chief steward, asking them about many features of the liner. One little boy was particularly interested in the engines, so the chief engineer, from the engine room, opened the door and the hum of the engines came over the air.

To conclude the broadcast, the wireless operator on the Awatea and the announcer at Wellington discussed the steps taken to establish the connection between 2YA and the liner, which consisted of an ordinary toll call.