WIRELESS RECORDS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1725, 16 April 1913, Page 7

WIRELESS RECORDS.

' » ---—. ■■■ SOME LONG BEACHES. fhe Australasian Wireless , Company, Limited, stated .that their Pennant Hills high-power station, near Sydney, recently heard a steamer equipped with a_ small cargo type Tqlefunken sec communicating her position .to another steamer when' 1970 miles west of Fremantle, thus making a distance of 4190 miles, that is, 1970 nautical and 2200 land miles, across that continent; The actual position of tho steamer has been verified by reference to the "Shipping Gazette."- The hovel ty : of. this achievement is, that the message Was received at Pennant Hills on u small antennae of '-150 feet height. Another . interesting wireless record has been ex-' . perienced at a high-power station also sredted ;. at Awanui,. .218 miles north of Auckland., . Information ■has been ■ received ithjit thr wireless messages were picked up nightly during the test period by mail steamers trading between Yokohama and Honolulu fitted ' with Marconi system.. At one point'the distance between 'tho vessels at Awanut was 4850 miles. Honolulu land station . also read the signals plainly, the distance of these messages being 3870 miles.' The steamer Ventura, prior: to leaving Honolulu, could read all tlie signals and . kept! in constant toui;h during ithe voyage to Sydney.. Considering the atmospheric conditions through which • these waves pass, ;it is conceded that: these results . equal anything ye't recorded in any part • of the world.: •