IN TOUCH WITH HOME
LONG-RANGE RADIO TALKS Its radio equipment is one of the special features of the Byrd Antarctic expedition, whose members will be able to communicate with and receive messages from their families and friends in America while in the far south. Last week one of the radio operators in the Eleanor Bolling received a wireless message direct from his home town in the United States announcing the birth of a son. Not only so, but two hours before the event and a few hours after, he was carrying on a radio conversation with his wife 7000 miles away through the medium pf the ship’s plant, which was in contact with his home through a relay by the station in his home town.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 54, 27 November 1928, Page 10
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125IN TOUCH WITH HOME Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 54, 27 November 1928, Page 10
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