SHORTWAVE RESEARCH

Evening Star, Issue 21820, 8 September 1934, Page 4

SHORTWAVE RESEARCH

Mr David M. Tombs, M.Sc., son of Mr and Mrs Harry Tombs, of Wellington, has been awarded a Robert Blair Fellowship in Applied Science and Technology, tenable for one year to enable him to carry out bis studies in research with Professor Dr Zennech, at Munich, into short wave propagation and reception, with special reference to the problems associated with the short and ultra-short waves that are likely to he used for television. .

Mr Tombs is an old boy of Nelson College, who went to London sis years ago and gained his master of science degree at London University. For the past two years he has been engaged in the research branch of Messrs Siemens Limited, of Woolwich, on the completion of which engagement in September he will leave for Germany. When at Nelson College, Mr Tombs was keenly interested in radio, having established the amateur transmitter 2GH, which he operated with quite trope! results. Mr H. M. Shrimpton, of Dunedin, radio operator on the Eleanor Boling, onp of the vessels of the first Antarctic expedition led by Rear-ad-miral R. E. Byrd, was at Nelson College at the same time, being the operator of 281. • • ■.