BROADCASTING TESTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19802, 29 May 1926, Page 11

BROADCASTING TESTS

NEW YORK TO MELBOURNE. A RECORD ESTABLISHED. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, May 27. (Received May 28, at 5.5 p.m.) The New York Times reports as follows with reference to the wireless broa icasting tests: “To-day’s broadcasting continued to be successful! We communicated with KFUH direct, Mr Roebuck reporting the intensity of our signals to be RB. We then got ASEF (Melbourne) and gave him our message, which he reported having received well. We also sent several other messages through A3EF and received messages from him addressed to us through tiAAB (Corsicana). We believe that we have established a record in that cne message sent by the Australian Press Association's correspondent to Melbourne and the reply occupied altogether 114 minutes in transmission. According to the best information available this is the fastest time in which a return communication between New York and Melbourne has ever been accomplished. To-day we sent a message to the Postmaster-General at Melbourne, asking permission to send as an experiment private messages between the two cities through ASEF. —A. and N.Z. Cable.