WIRELESS AND THE FLIGHT
Sir.— Your correspondent, Mr. * Thomas Farrell, draws an analogy to motorists in defending the action of IYA in butting in on the Australian broadcast of the take-off of the Southern Cross from Sydney. This is very apt. The action of IYA was like that of the motorist who takes no notice of the traffic policeman, and barges through
a line of traffic. Had IYA taken the trouble to find out the position in Sydney, it would not have come on at the moment it did, to make the foolish statement that the flight was to take place, and the engines were being tuned up. I presume that IYA has a receiving set. Had the announcer tuned in to Sydney first, and waited a moment before flooding the air in Auckland, he would have been able to tell even the crystal set owners, like your correspondent, the whole story, instead of which some outsider had to ring IYA to tell them that the flight had actually started. *AWK OF SINLAND.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 458, 13 September 1928, Page 8
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