Long-distance call
Christchurch policemen were startled yesterday to hear American accents drawling from -their radio, receivers. It was soon 'established that they were in contact with a police station at Long Beach, California. The discourse continued all afternoon. Weather experts say that freak atmospheric conditions
might have been responsible; there may have been temperature inversions or electrical disturbances in itha..; upper atmosphere, allowing the Americans to be clearly heard in Christchurch, Invercargill; and Wellington. '4' Whatever the. cause, {the disturbance is no more. Early this morning, still on channel five, the police could receive only Wellington. , .If
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Press, 14 April 1980, Page 6
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