TELEPHONY AT SEA.
EXPERIMENTS.. ON EURIPIDES
SYDNEY, March 25.—Some interesting wifeless' experiments were made by the White Star liner Euripides, which has just arrived from England-. The Euripides is equipped with the latest type of. -Marconi marine receiver and continuous wave transmitter. During a rough trip through the Bay of Biscay, wireless telephony concerts were heard from the. Dutch station at Amsterdam, the music of popular gramaphone records coming, through very clearly. ' Throughout tlie voyage to Australia, the vessel was ablet to provide a daily news service from the British station at Lea field (Oxfordshire). At a distance of 2700 miles .from Durban a message' of congratulation was dispatched to Princess Mary from the passengers and officers of, the steamer.
Daylight range of over 1000 miles from Capetown and 13C0 miles from Perth was registered on the continuous wave transmitter, and speech telephony tests were successfully conducted with Melbourne.) Off Sydney Heads press news was received from Bordeaux station.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15794, 7 April 1922, Page 9
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159TELEPHONY AT SEA. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15794, 7 April 1922, Page 9
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