Mr Ulm’s Wireless.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20484, 10 December 1934, Page 6

Mr Ulm’s Wireless.

Dear Sir,—l am still not clear whether Ulm sent out any wireless messages after he touched the water. You say that messages were sent out for an hour and a half after the landing, presumably from a battery operated transmitter, but nobody has told us yet what one of these messages said, and it would be reasonable to suppose that for an hour and a half after landing he would have given some indication of the manner of landing and the trim of his machine, and whether they had broken anything, and what they were doing to keep the empty tanks sealed. I take it that these details would be of prime importance as news apart from the value they would have to the searchers, and their absence makes me think that the earlier messages to which you referred, - sent out for an hour and a half after landing, were just the imagination of a newspaper man.— I am, etc. r AMATEUR. The messages received late yesterday se~m to support the correspondent’s contention regarding the cessation of messages. Ulm’s trailing antenna would be useless for transmission as soon as it was earthed, and unless he had an emergency antenna he could not send messages.—Ed., 44 Star.”