DUNEDIN TO NEW YORK.
SUCCESSFUL CONVERSATION BY RADIO.
ADMIRAL BYRD SPEAKS TO FRIENDS.
The effort made early this morning for a radio conversation between Admiral Byrd at Dunedin and newspaper friends and others in New York was most successful. The reception, according to a Masterton amateur who listened in, was wonderful, the broadcast being similar to a'telephone conversation and quite as clear. From the studio of 4YA. the conversation was relayed by land-line and submarine cable to 2Y.A. and there put on the . air. This was received in Sydney on long wave, transferred to 2M.E’s. short wave and picked up in America by 2XAF, Scheneetady, New York, on short wave and re-broadcast on long wave by WGY. The time of the reception in New Zealand was 0.35 a.m. Wednesday end in New York 7.34 a.m. on Tuesday.
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Wairarapa Age, 12 March 1930, Page 5
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137DUNEDIN TO NEW YORK. Wairarapa Age, 12 March 1930, Page 5
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