WIRELESS ACHIEVEMENT.
AW Alt U A TO NORFOLK. tPeT Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, last night. A notable wireless, achievement has been recorded at the' Awarna wifeless station, where operators succeeded in communicating on a short-wave experimental set, with the whaling ship Sir James Clark Ross, now within one day’s steaming of Norfolk on the Atlantic coast- of the United States. Ever since the vessel left Stewart Island early last mouth the Awarna station has been keeping up communication with very satisfactory results until the vessel was in the Panama Qanal, when the signals failed to get a response. On Wednesday night the operators carried on a conversation With the vessel, which then) was liear the Bahama islands. The Sir James Clark Ross reported that she was proceeding first to 'Norfolk for coal and thence to
New York to discharge a cargo of whale oil.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17009, 16 April 1926, Page 10
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143WIRELESS ACHIEVEMENT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17009, 16 April 1926, Page 10
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