DUNEDIN-NEW YORK
WIRELESS TELEPHONY. SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS. TWO WAY COMMUNICATION. (By Telegraph— Association.) DUNEDIN, Monday. Station 4YA, as an experimental preliminary, established a two way verbal communication with New York early this morning. Voices from Dunedin were conveyed by telephone calls to 2YA, Wellington and thence broadcast to the shorl wave station, Sydney, and passed on to 2XAF, New York. Replies received by the latter were picked up direct here. Mr. Russell Owen, of the New York Times, who has been with the Byrd expedition to Antarctica, will speak through this system early to-morrow morning and Rear-Admiral Byrd at 12.30 a.m. on Wednesday. CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. Mr. Russell Owen will speak over the telephone to New York at midnight to-day and Rear Admiral Byrd will speak at 12.30 a.m. to-morrow to his sponspr Mr. Ochs, o’f New York. Listeners-in in New Zealand will he able to hear them. New Zealand stations will broadcast the civic welcome to Rear-Admiral Byrd tomorrow at 8 p.m.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17965, 10 March 1930, Page 7
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