FIELD RADIOS IN ANTARCTIC
U.S. Parties To Use N.Z.-Made Sets
American scientific parties in the Antarctic will this season use New Zealand-made field radios and “walkie talkie” sets
Recently the United States Antarctic Research Programme purchased 32 sets from a Wellington radio firm. Thirteen of these were a large type of field radio weighing about 901 b and with a range of about 300 miles. Nineteen smaller and more portable radios wert also purchased.
Mr E. E. Goodale, the research programme’s representative in Christchurch, said that it was found during a traverse last year to Victoria Land that the only radios capable of maintaining contact were those used by the New Zealand field parties. “It appears that the New Zealand radios are more powerful than ours,” he said.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29367, 21 November 1960, Page 19
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