WIRELESS WONDER

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 November 1924, Page 5

WIRELESS WONDER

HULLO, AMERICA ! NEW WIRELESS RECORD. A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT. BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPY SIGHT. (Received Nov. 5, 11.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Nov. 5, . For the first time a wireless operator, ..Howden, established a two-way wireless communication between Australia and America. On Monday night Howden had arranged a test with an experimenter at Gisborne, and at 7.15 p.m; he sent out a general call. In a few minutes he heard an American, Williams, at Teamona, California, , answering. Messages were exchanged for forty minutes. Arrangements have been made for a further try-out. Howden used a wave length of eighty-six metres and power 120 watts. The American wave length was seventyfive. The Gisborne man with whom Howden bad an appointment and several other New Zealand experimenters - were heard to exchange, messages with America.. .;