TEST OF PLANT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20013, 11 August 1939, Page 14

TEST OF PLANT

•TAMAKI RADIO STATION TASMAN SERVICE LINK METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS GUIDE FOR .FLYING-BOATS (Per Press Asswlation.) AUCKLAND, this day. Manned by a small staff of operators, the short-wave apparatus installed at the Musick memorial radio centre at Tamaki is now undergoing tests in readiness for the inauguration of the point-to-point service with Sydney. It is expected that communication with the Australian station at Rose Bay will be established within a few days and the way will then be paved for the exchange of information between New Zealand and Australian aviation meteorologists. Although the transmitter will be in charge of a technician, both receiving and transmission will be carried out from the building housing the receiver, the two Stations ’being • Con- 1 nected by an underground cable. The installation of direction-finding equipment, 'which is housed in a separate building, has also been completed, but a lengthy and exacting task is involved in the calibration of the sensitive instruments to ensure accuracy. The erection of a medium-wave transmitter will be carried out shortly and, when this task is completed, facilities will be provided for the operation of radio telephone service with trans-ocean aircraft. Until the plant is available, use can be made of medium-wave equipment established at M&ngere for '.the internal airways system.