TALKING TO ENGLAND

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12197, 23 July 1925, Page 5

TALKING TO ENGLAND

RADIO MAN ON U.S. WARSHIP SIGNALS HEARD EASILY. (By Radio from the Battleship Seattle.) July 22. Yesterday afternoon an amateur wireless operator at Caterham, England. listened for 20 minutes while Lieutenant Schnell gave him an account of the fleet’s journey from Honolulu to Australia, and details of the programme of entertainment which the Australians have prepared. The "English amateur was Mr T. Marcuse. whose call is 2NM. He was sending on 45 metres, while Lieut. Schnell used 89 metres. Lieut. Schnell said that Mr Marcuse’s signals were so clear that they could be heard three feet from the earpieces. OTHER PERFORMANCES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON. July 21. Some noteworthy performances _ m radio communication have been achieved in connection with the dispatches from the American Fleet on tbe way to Australia. Captain McLean, Director of Naval Communications, stated that two-way communication had been established between Washington and the Seattle when she was in the vicinty of Samoa. The American destroyer Pope, at Shanghai, held reciprocal communications with the fleet. The Peary, flagship of the McMillan Arctic Expedition, when nearly at Labrador, heard the fleet on July 7th; an amateur at Johannesburg, in South Africa, received short wave’' signals from the fleet while it was in the vicinty of Hawaii.