NEW RADIO RECORD

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3479, 15 October 1926, Page 9

NEW RADIO RECORD

TWO-WAY COMMUS HJATiOH A further record in marine wireloss telegraphy is claimed for the installation in the Union .Company’s motor liner, Aorangi, two-way communication having been maintained between the vessel and the Canadian Government station at Estevan, British Columbia, over a distance of 8500 miles. Under an arrangement for mutual co-operation, the operators on the ship and at the shore station have been paying attention to the maintenance of two-way communication while tho Aorangi has been crossing the Pacific and Tasman. On her two previous voyages south, messages were received and despatched over a distance of 6200 miles, but this distance was eclipsed when the Aorangi was a day out from Sydney on her last trip from Auckland. The position of the ship was then calculated as being 6500 miles from Estevan. Mr H. T. Uonguebaye, a member of the Aorangi’s wireless staff, who has been so successful with tho tests, said that the ship was now able to maintain communication with Estevan throughout her voyages. Occasionally freak distances had been bridged by wireless, but tiro results achieved by the Aorangi’s plant on her recent trips removed these performances from the realm of tho freak into the realm of the regular. On the morning of September ,26 tho ship was again in touch with Estevan, the shore operators reporting that the signals from the vessel were strong. The radio set on the Aorangi is owned and controlled by the Union Steam Ship Company, and is entirely of British make. The power used is 15 kilowatts, and transmission is done on a continuous wave transmitter on the marine commercial wave length.