WEAK SIGNALS
RADIO AMATEUR'S REPORT
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
PALMERSTON N;, . This Day. . . When-Mr. F.- J. Martin, a Pahiatua amateur radio r operator, , heard very, weak signals.late on Saturday night, which he interpreted as KSMMR, he advised the Post and Telegraph Department, in view of the fact that the call-sign of .the.lost Ellsworth, monoplane is KHNIIf. The morse was very hard to read owing to its very weak strength, and, in addition to the'letters', the figures 1638 were being repeated, which Mr. Martin took to refer to longitude or latitude. At 1.30 on Sunday morning the signals had gathered strength, and this' led the Department's officers to 'think that they were riot coming from the monoplane, which was fitted with a hand-generatorl only for its emergency radio transmitter. , The wave-length was 49 metres.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 135, 4 December 1935, Page 13
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134WEAK SIGNALS Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 135, 4 December 1935, Page 13
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