HEARD IN ENGLAND.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18238, 24 November 1924, Page 8

HEARD IN ENGLAND.

FIRST WELLINGTON. RADIO. (SPECIAL' TO "THE PBEBS.") Wellington, November 22. The highest honours in long-distanco wireless communication by New Zealand amateurs are held by Iwr P. D. Be (Waihemo), H. H'ftdo (Bunedin), and I. H, O'Mearu (Uisbornc), but it is no longer the prjvilego of two or three widely scattered operators to belong to a tiny aristocracy able to hear sigua s from other amateurs in England, ihc list is already growing. But the nuintl who LI woi'kuii" English amateur stations, by establishing commum cation so as to be able to conduct twoway conversation, is still quite smallSo far, nobody in Wellington has succeeded in establishing fully sought connexion, out Mr P. C. Collier, of Brooklyn (well known in the fraternity as 2Al\) had a perilous escape a fcj divs ago. He was heard by an LnglisU amateur, 28Z, wIW called back. The Englishman at firss confused himl with OA/-* Ajr O'Meara), and further trouble arose through 2AP being somewhat excited, so that Ins sending was not satisfactory. Mr Collier has no doubt that the Englishman heard him, I his difficulty he appealed to Mr BeU, who promptly "worked" 2SZ and afterwards renorted the result to Mr Collier. 2SZ wanted to knowwho was "the chao that sent so fast.' Mi' Collier is in the meantimo wellpleased with his partial success, because although he has been able to work with several American amateurs, his aenai te cramped and inefficient, and his power small when considered trom tn point of view of 12.C00 miles transmission.