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Grey River Argus, 3 November 1928, Page 8

WIRELESS.

LATEST EXPERIMENTS. GISBORNE November 2. Ivan O’Meara this morning picked up the ten-met re wave length signals from the American sta ion. From 8.15 to 10.30 signals came through co' - si tcntly strongly various messages being received without difficulty. Test.were made with variations of thc angle of the beam, some being more successful than others. ' LONDON, November 1. A twelve minutes’ speech cos’ing twenty-five pounds a minute, was wirelessly telephoned from Ottawa by the Minister of Commerce to Cardiff, on thc occasion of the Empire Exhibition at Cardiff, where Canada is the bigge t single exhibitor. The speech was telephoned from O’tawa to New York, wirelessed from Rocky Point, picked up at Fifeshire, and lanalined to London, where it was amplified, thence to Cardiff, where it was heard perfectly by five thousand ■‘visitors to the exhibition. ASHBURTON STATION. FINDS 10 METRES UNRELIABLE. ASHBURTON, November 2. Mr D. Buchanan, of Ashburton radio Station 3.AR. reports: “The American Station G.XV, first heard here at 7.10 a.m. on September 30th, and at 2 p.m on October 4th. Station 6.NV has advised that his aerial power is six kilo watt". Portions of American amateur Morse communications on this wave length have been logged during Octo ber, but except in the case of 6.XV, thc transmissions faded before th.’ messages were completed. The best work of the local station on ten metres was thirty minute Morse two-way communication with the Bri/bane amateur, 4.88., on September 30. The observations fo date indicate that tliiwave length is very erratic and unre liable.