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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20510, 31 August 1936, Page 2

Britain’s famous liner, tile “Queen Mary,” maintains daily touch with New Zealand through Awarua Radio, probably its most distant contact. Every day at 8 p.m. the “Queen Mary” (GBTT) calls Awarua (ZLB). Traffic may not be offering, but busy as the ship’s radio staff must be with lucrative commercial services they have so far always found time to adhere faithfully to the daily scheme of a call to New Zealand, although on most occasions communication is limited to comparing notes on signal strength

and an indication of the ship’s position. Under the present itinerary the “Queen Mary” spends mid-week in New York and Southampton alternately, usually sailing on Thursdays and arriving on Mondays. The wavelength used by both ship and land stations is 36 metres, and although there is usually 10,000 mil between the stations, communication is secured with no more

trouble than if the vessel were in the Tasman. Awarua Radio, which is notable for its long-distance shortwave work, is keeping in constant touch with the new inter-colonial crack liner “Awatea” now on her way to New Zealand. Radio-telephone speech was exchanged when the vessel was only 1,500 miles from the Clyde, and more recently the “Awatea’s” 600 metre signals were received when the vessel was still on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal.

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