WIRELESS TELEPHONE
VOICES TRANSMITTED 5630 MILES. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 23. When the steamer Waitemata was near the Great Barrier yesterday, th* wireless operator heard quite distinctly voices trsnsmited on a wave, of 450 metres from tha high power rncho-phone station gt Avalon, 150 miles from San Francisco, a distance of 5.630 miles. The high power station mentioned embodies a new system of wireless telephony which enables a person in his private residence to speak by radio through an ordinary land telephone system without the necessity cf using a radiophone direct. Mt Hartley, the Waitemata’s operator. aisc heard radio-music at intervals from theatres in San Francisco while the vessel was off the American coast. The. means of transmission was by wireless telephone, and the music of an orchestra and the voices of singers could be heard quite clearly.
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Southland Times, Issue 18936, 24 September 1920, Page 5
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