WIRELESS WORLD CHATS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19437, 24 October 1925, Page 14

WIRELESS WORLD CHATS

TWO AUCKLANDERS CONCERNED. STRANGE COINCIDENCE. New Zealand amateur wireless enthusiasts figure in a most interesting article in the 44 London Evening News” under the heading 4 4 Wireless Chats Round the World,” and the writer mentions a rather strange coincidence which happened on one of the American battleships while in Wellington Harbour. It is interesting to Aucklanders to know that two of the names mentioned belonged to old Auckland boys, both of whom used to go to King’s College. The Mr. O’Meara

mentioned is Mr. Ivan O’Meara, of Gisborne, who has done so much valuable work in communicating with the other side of the world on. low powers, land the Dr. Blomfield is w*. William Blomfield, *son of Mr. William Blomfield, formerly Mayor of Takapuna. Mr. O’Meara is Mr. Blomfield’s son-in-law. J)r. Blomfield was at the West London when the messages wore sent, but he is now in charge of Ihe ear and throat hospital, Edmund Street, Birmingham, and he is rtipidly adding to the list of yourrg New Zealanders tfrlio have made names for themselves’in the world of science and medicine. the researches of wireless amateurs are bringing people in distant parts in closer communication with each other is shown by a noteworthy (achievement of Mr. Frederick Mayer, whoso station, 2LZ, is located at Wickford, in Essex,” says the article. 44 One day recentlv Mr. Mayer sent out between 7 and 8 a.m. a general call sign, which is a sort of invitation to anybody who might hear him to reply for test purposes. He was then working on a Wave-lengtti of 45 metres, and using a power of 300 fkatts. Almost immediately he was answered on 40 metres by the chief wireless operator named Schnell on board an American battleship named the Seattle. Iving in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand. 44 Mr. Mayor conversed with Morse ' signals for an hour, and during that I time ho was asked to pass a message to Dr. Eccles of the Radio Society of Groat Britain, thanking him for some previous greetings to Australia. A few days before that, Mr. Mayor had boon in communication with a Now Zealand (amateur, Mr. O’Meara, of Gisborne. who had asked him to take a message for his brot I,n r-in-law, Dr. Blomfield. of West London Hospital. Dr. Blomfield wrote to Mr. Mayer with a message, and while the conversation was going on with the Seattle, Mr. Mayer asliad. if ho could got a message from Dr. Blomfield through to Mr. O 44 8 y a curious coincidence Mr. O’Meara was on board the Seattle at the time, being interested in the operator’s tegts with short wave-lengths. This is onlv one of the many examples of the wnv amateurs are annihilating distance by the use of wireless sets, practically all nf them hnmo-made.”