RADIO SERVICES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 49, 26 August 1939, Page 14

RADIO SERVICES

MUSICK MEMORIAL

NOW IN OPERATION

"The Musick Memorial Radio Station at Auckland, which has been established primarily to meet the requirements of trans-Tasman and trans-

Pacific air services, is now in operation. Tests which have been conducted with the Rose Bay terminal at Sydney and with Suva, Fiji, indicate that a high-grade service is assured," stated the Minister in Charge of Civil Aviation (the Hon. F. Jones) yesterday. "Regular schedules are now being observed by the station with Rose Bay, Suva, and Awarua.

"The facilities provided at the Musick Memorial Station include (a) radio telegraph transmitters from point-to-point service with overseas airports and local aeradio stations, such as Awarua, which will co-operate in the direction-finding service; (b) radio telegraph and telephone transmitters for working to the aircraft; and (c) direction-finding equipment to assist in the navigation of aircraft on overseas flights.

"The new radio centre with its separate transmitting and receiving stations and modern teleprinter service to Mechanics Bay, besides meeting the requirements of the overseas air services, will be an important national asset and provide a nucleus for all radio services required at Auckland.

"When the final scheme is in operation the comprehensive services at Musick Point will also make it possible to extend services to ship stations to include small ships- which at present have no radio facilities but $& which a radio-telephony service wotd__ be a. great boon, and give a greater measure of safety in their operation in coastal trade."