WIRELESS TALK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 27 October 1928, Page 9

WIRELESS TALK

NEW YORK AND SYDNEY ■ —....- > 'J ACROSS TEN THOUSAND MILES OF SPACE CLEAR CONVERSATION United Press Association—By Electric. Telegraph—Copyright " ■* Australian Press Association (Received 27th October, 9.30 a.m.) MONTREAL, 26th October. A Schenectady message says that for over half an hour This-morning Schenec-' tady talked with Sydney and the. cou-7 versation was rebroadcast here., Efforts', to make it a three-way’ conversation’.' with Java were not so successful,' al- ' though the General Electric Radio engi-; r.eers have been talking with Java fre-'

quentlv during recent weeks. ’ : Once the laymen who had been' inV’ ,1;' vited to take part- in the demonstration got over the eerie feeling for carrying on a perfectly normal conversation across -■ t 10,000 miles of space, they Began by ' - exchanging pleasantries -with the Sydneym T engineer, McDonald. It-was 6.34 this morning when dear connection 1 was es- " tablished, which was 9.34 at night in.-..vi Sydney, and a cold clear autumn mbrri--\‘: ing in Schenectady and a mild > spring,- e evening in Australia. Mr McDonald: , said: “I hope next week to have the :• American Consul-General in Sydney;. at-,.;, the microphone here to-join in a demon--,- - strati on like this,” • . . ,