RANGING THE WORLD

Evening Star, Issue 23353, 24 August 1939, Page 8

RANGING THE WORLD

H.Z. SHORT-WAVE STATIONS The short-wave radio stations of the New Zealand Post Office —Awarna and Wellington--range the whole world. They find no difficulty in regularly communicating not only with the liners on the run between New Zealand and the United Kingdom via Panama, but also include in their daily logs exchanges of calls with Australian liners making the journey via the Sues Canal, ship-to-shore messages for delivery by post the following morning being thus transmitted to New Zealand. There is a daily contact between the Queen Mary and’Awarna when the great liner is at sea, and at C. 46 o’clock on a recent evening the Now Zealand operator morsed to the Queen Mary: “What ship uses the call letters GTTM?” The answer was given, but it also came from “GTTM” direct four minutes later. Operators on the new Mauretania had heard their call letters on the air, and. making contact with Awarna. explained that this was their designation, and that the liner was a day out from New York on her maiden voyage. The Dominion Monarch. which lakes the longest liner route from New Zealand (o England by calling at Cape Town, it always iu touch with the Awarna radio slalion.