PROGRESS OF WIRELESS

Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1929, Page 9

PROGRESS OF WIRELESS

NEW YORK AND DUNEDIN LINKED. SHORT WAVE INVESTIGATION. By Telegraph.—Pres.-. Assoeiat.un. Dunedin, July 5. Direct radio communication between Dunedin and New York has been established by Mr. Berkner, of the Bureau of Standards, Washington. The station here lias been coupled with the ship Eleanor Bolling at Port Chalmers by a control line, making it possible to keep constant touch with New York and the Byrd expedition base and to relay messages from the base to New York.

The remote control station was put into operation yesterday for the first time and the tests proved satisfactory, perfect communication with New York and Antartica being established. This was the first time such a system had been worked in New Zealand. Messages were sent and received at the rate of 35 words a minute.

i Mr. Berkner is also carrying out research here. He is making fading records of the English, American and Dutch short wave stations for the purpose of obtaining more scientific information regarding the propagation of the wireless wave. The geographic position of New Zealand in respect to the powerful short wave broadcasting station in other parts of the world makes it possible for excellent work to be carried out in this direction.

Special equipment for observation purposes has been designed for the Dunedin station, and the results so far obtained indicate that the final records made will be ot great importance to the future of radio.