KON-TIKI RADIO MEN MAKE WIRELESS HISTORY
Received Thursday, 7.10 p.m. NEW YORK, August 13. Thor Heverdahl, leader of the KonTiki raft expedition which landed on Raroia Reef, Tuamotu Archipoiago, claimed in a radio message today that his two wireless operators, Torstein Raaby and Knut Haughland, set a world ;s reeord for battery operated transmitters by contacting Norway . direct from the raft three days before reaching the reef. The - original batteries ran down so they reassembled the snialler colls inside a 45-volt battery and with this makeshift power source, sent'mfissages direct to Norway from the exact antipodal position on tlie earth's surface. Raaby and Haughland, like most of the party, were heroes of the underground war against Germany. Both parachuted into Norway twice and were awarded the Norwegian War Cross — -Norway's highest 'gallantrv award — and the British Jl.S.O. Raaby radioed baek vital information about the battleship Tirpitz's location - and Haughland participated in the action against the German atomie experiinental station at Rjuhan.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 August 1947, Page 8
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