WIRELESS MESSAGES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 351, 20 March 1922, Page 5

WIRELESS MESSAGES.

MELBOURNE TO AUCKLAND. RKCKXT TELEPHONE TESTS. MELBOURNE, March 10. Communication with New Zealand by indie Lelephone lies been established in ;i series of experiments carried out by the Radio Branch of the PostmasterGeneral's Department. It was announced to-day by Mr Bright (ActingSecretary to the P.M.G.'s Department) that at 10 p.m. on Tuesday and at 4 a.m. on Wednesday of this week signals sent Iron) Melbourne wore received at; Auckland and Awanui, thus establishin a a record as the first occasion on which Australia and Now Zealand havo been linked by wireless telephony. The reports received from the Dominion stations were as fodow:— 'Tuesday. Auckland Radio.—Received Voice O.K. Modulation good." ••Wednesday. Auckland Radio.--Received. Voice strong and speech "■cod I .'' ' ''Awanui Radio.—Receive,!. Voice strong and beard remarks." Broadcast into the night the experimenters sent out the following mes-

'••Ileilu. This is Melbourne speaking. Will stations which can hear us please report?" Beside those from New Zealand replies were received from almost every public station and many private ones throughout Australia forwarded reports" some of them as far north as Brisbane. The s.s. Bingera, 300 miles north of Brisbane, and the Townsville and Perth radios replied. The apparatus was that recently used for the tests successfully earned out between Melbourne and Tasmania.

VOICES HEARD AT NEW

BRIGHTON

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CUIUSTCMTJRCH, March 19 Wireless telephone voices from Melbourne were picked up quite clearly at New Brighton late last night on the small wireless receiving station ol A. 11 Rag" a post office official. Mr llagg was listening for Sydney, when lie beard the voire coming in. It required ~' 'most delicate timing to retain the message, although the voice was clear and much stronger than similar messes from Dr. -lack, of the Dunedm University. Mr Ragg says he can pick up Bordeaux every morning, and as tortile Philippine messages they are so loud that the receiver has to he held clear of the head.