WIRELESS.
CONQUERS THE TASMAN SEAL
PRIVATE EXPERIMENTER'S WOEK.
By. Telegraph-Press ABsociation-Copyrisht t t .Sydney, February 28. ' ; Last Friday night the first wireless i message from New Zealand was received by Mr. Young, an experimenter living at Arncliff, five miles from Sydney. He used apparatus fifty feet' in height, and with a detector of his own invention picked up H.M.S. Powerful signale plainly all the way across to Auckland. When the flagship had rounded the North Cape the signals became fainter, this probably being due to land coming between. He expects to hold * her all through the cruise.
On February. 15 he picked up H.M.S. Encounter (with Lord Kitchener aboard) when she was about a thousand miles distant Tho experimenter also thought ho could detect the Powerful speaking to the erraser Challenger on Friday last, and that .he could hear ..the latter replying, although ho could not make out the message. ■.';.. .
He got several long messages" from the rowerful. .. . . ■ ..
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 754, 1 March 1910, Page 7
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158WIRELESS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 754, 1 March 1910, Page 7
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