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Hi TUKMAra.-traoiM to m roit.) AUOKLAND, ThU Day.
The development* that have taken place lately in wireleaa have enabled some remarkable fetfe to be aocompiuhed by experimenter* in Auckland. One man, who has been carrying on experiment* for many year?, report* having "picked up" the powerful station at Carnarvon, Wales, using only a single detector circuit He has alao heard message* from the Aquitania and the Mauretania when they were ctoerine the Atlantic, and he distinguished a caS from the Olympic as the *was leaving Southampton for New York, to Pool Harbour, Dohset Stations m France, Germany, South -Africa,l India, China, and Japan have been frequently heard by'this'observer, while it is ajj^everyday occurrence to hear the United States- and the island* in "th© Pacific Interesting observations on his experiences while "listening m" are made by Mr. G-. MB. Salt, demonstrator in physics ,at the Auckland University College, who referred to the fact that it was possible to hear the high-powered stations at Lyons, Bordeaux, and St Assure, in France, only at certam times of the day. The station at Nauen,~I)ust outsdde Berlin, ha* been heard by Mr Salt Vat certain, times of the day, and also stations in Borne, Japan, United States, and other places All the Australian coastal stations woiking with ships were heard with great distinctness. Professor,B. Jack, of Dunedui, had followed. Home boats for eevwi days, out, which' meant something well ot«w 2000 miles, and had heard a warship's wireless 4000 mile* away. Dealing with wir»less telephony, Mr Salt said that Professor Jade had been heard very distinctly at Hamilton, and he had also been picked up once at Auckland University College. Permission had been given to him to use much higher-power, in which- case he should be heard distinctly in all part* of New Zealand, and possibly alao in Australia. A telephone station at Melbourne had been picked up in New Zealand with the im of only one valve*
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 42, 18 August 1922, Page 7
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