RADIO EMERGENCY CORPS

Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1933, Page 9

RADIO EMERGENCY CORPS

MOUNTAIN TEST TRANSMISSION;

success achieved -yesterday.

Experiments, the first ?uch in tfae history of radio in Taranaki, were ma<Je on Mt-. Egmcnt yesterday, when tfae Taranaki section ef the Radio Emergency Corp? successfully traHpmitfed signal? from the summit, to base Rations at Hawera, Stratford and New Plymouth,

For several month? preparations leading fo the test have been fo progress and the perfect-clarity of the reception was a tribute to foe work of fog §£g.tion and to the efficiency of the apparatus assembled, : A portable transmitter weighing about 151b.,zwas taken to the summit (8260 ft and an mtermediate' relay station was established on the Stratford Plateau (4000 ft. with a somewhat similar instrument. The intention was to transmit signals from the summit fodieved : to be the highest sending pofot yet qper-, ated in New Zealand) to the relay ate-: tion for sending fo the ba?e ; stations. AU. signals came through perfectly and foe. operators at the Hawera, Stratford and. New Plymouth base station? even found that they were able to receive foe sum-; mit messages very distinctly by direct contact,