DIRECT RADIO.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19664, 6 July 1929, Page 5

DIRECT RADIO.

NEW YORK AND DUNEDIN. (press association telegbam.) DUNEDIN, July 5. Direct radio communication between Dunedin and New York has been established by Mr Berkner, of the Bureau of Standards, Washington. The station here has been coupled with the ship Eleanor Boiling at Port Chalmers by a control line, making it possible to keep in constant touch with New York and the Byrd Expedition base, and to relay messages from the base to New York. A remote control station was put jfjtto operatiou yesterday for the first time, and the tests proved satisfactory, perfect communication with New York and Antarctica being established. This was the first time such a system had been worked in New Zealand. Messages were sent and received at the rate of 35 words a minute. Mr Berkner is also carrying out research here, and is making fading records of English, American, and Dutch shortwave stations for the purpose of obtaining more scientific information. The geographic position of New Zealand in respect to powerful short-wave broadcasting stations in other parts of the world makes it possible for excellent work to be carried out in this direction. Special equipment for observation purposes has been designed for the Dunedin station, and the results so far indicate that the final records will be of great importance to the future of radio.