TV RECEPTION IN ANTARCTIC
LONDON. November 18 British scientists at Halley Bay. Antarctica have picked up television signals from Britain, some 800 b miles away, the Royal Society has disclosed. During the last Antarctic winter. from April to September when the ionospheric conditions were favourable, sound reception from London was possible for several hours a day at the society’s base on the shores of thr Weddell Sea. Television signals from the British Broadcasting Corporation were picked up occasionally. Pole-Sitter's Fall.— Len Van Brunt, aged 26. was admitted to hospital with a back injury last night after a 40-foot pole on which he had been sitting for 14 days was blown down by high winds.—Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 18.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28747, 19 November 1958, Page 15
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