RADIO SERVICE
MUSICK MEMORIAL CENTRE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, August 10.
Manned by a small staff of operators, the short-wave apparatus installed at the Mvisick Memorial Radio Centre at Tamaki is now undergoing tests in readiness for the inauguration of point-to-point service with Sydney.
It is expected that communication with the Australian station at Rose Bay will be established within a few days, and the way will then be paved for the exchange of information between New Zealand and Australian aviation meteorologists.
Though the transmitter will be in charge of a technician, both receiving and transmission will be carried out from the building housing the receiver, the two stations being connected by an underground cable.
The installation of direction-finding equipment, which is housed in a separate building, has also been completed, but a lengthy and exacting task is involved in the calibration of sensitive instruments to ensure accuracy.
The erection of a medium-wave transmitter will be carried out shortly, and, when this task is completed, facilities will be provided for the operation of a radio telephone service with trans-ocean aircraft. Till the plant is available use can be made of medium-wave equipment established at Mangere for the internal airways system.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1939, Page 5
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