MARINE WIRELESS RECORD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19906, 28 September 1926, Page 10

MARINE WIRELESS RECORD.

ESTABLISHED BY AORANGI. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 27. A further record in marine wireless telegraphy is claimed for the installation on the R.M.M.S. Aorangi, a two-way communication having been maintained between the vessel and the Canadian Government station at Estevan, British Columbia, over a distance of 6500 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 the Aorangi has been crossing the Pacific and the Tasman on her two previous voyages south. The messages had been 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 ss being 6500 miles from Estevan. Mr ri. T. Longuebaye, a member of the Aorangi’s wireless staff, who has been so successiul with, the tests, said that the ship was now able to maintain communication with Eatevan throughout her voyages. occasionally freak distances had been bridged by wireless, but the results achieved by the Aorangi’s plant on her recent trips removed these performances from the realm of freak into the realm of regular performance. Yesterday morning the ship was again in touch with Estevan, the shore operators reporting that the signals from the vessel wore 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 one and a-half kilowatts, and the transmission. is done on a continuous wave transmitter on the marine wave length.