LONG DISTANCE WIRELESS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2216, 31 July 1914, Page 9

LONG DISTANCE WIRELESS

TRIBUTE TO THE NEW ZEALAND STATIONS. . .' * / Mr. L. V. R: parmine (a New $ealander), and chief wireless operator on 'tho s.s. Sonoma, on the Homeward run from- Sydney to San. Francisco, picked up the Wellington Wireless Station north of the Equator at a distance of 3500 miles. Ho says that the Wellington, Awanui, and Bluff stations, are a credit to New Zealand and can be heard at. great distances, and" through, the strongest of atmospherical disturbances. It is a pleasure to hear and, work with such onsp arid musical notes as tho New Zealand stations can boast of, and of 'the capable operators who work them. When all other stations are drowned .out by strong atmospherical conditions, Wellington's,.Awanui's, and, the Bluff's singing spark can be heard to great advantage at long distarices.. "The nearest we ever get to New . Zealand," he says, "is about .1100 miles, and at that range these stations'come in as if we were not more than;, fifty miles away. We always hear, Awanui working. long before_ we pick up Suva, and Fiji." In one instance, when five hundred miles from Sydney, he was receiving- a' message, from Sydney, Wellington, came in so strong as to drown Sydney out,; Mr. Carmine has recently established a new mark in wireless, getting a message from south of the Equator to San Francisco direct, achieving the latest American long-distance record. Mr. ~ Carmine was a telegraphist in the Wellington" telegraph office before he left to take'up wireless.-