WIRELESS.
AUSTRALIA AN7S AMERICA. TWO-WAY’ COMMUNICATION. (Received 5 8.50 a.m.) Melbourne, Nov. 5. th© first time a wireless operator Mr. Howden, established a two-way wireless communication between Australia and America on Monday night. Mr. Howden had arranged for a test with an experimenter at Gisborne, at 7.15. At 7 o’clock he sent out a general call, and in a few minutes he heard an American, Mr. Williams, at Tamona California, answering. Messages were exchanged for 40 minutes, and arrangements made for a further tryout. Mr. Howden Used a nave length of 86 metres, and the power was 120 watts. The American’s wave fibiigth was 75. The Gisborne man with whom Mr. Howden had an appointment, and several other New Zealand experimenters, heard the exchange of messages with America.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 279, 5 November 1924, Page 5
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