RANGING THE WORLD

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20024, 24 August 1939, Page 10

RANGING THE WORLD

N.Z. RADIO STATIONS CONTACT WITH LINERS The short-wave radio stations of the New Zealand post office—Awarua and Wellington—range the whole world. They find no difficulty in regularly j communicating not only with the ■ liners on the run between New Zea- • land and the United Kingdom, via < Panama, ibut also include in their daily logs exchanges of calls with : Australian liners making the journey via the Suez Canal, ship-to-shore messages for delivery by post the fol- : lowing- morning i being thus transmitted to New Zealand. There is a daily contact between the j Queen Mary and Awarua when the j great liner is at sea, and at 6.4 G o’clock: on a recent evening the New Zealand: operator morsed to the Queen Mary: i. “What ship uses the call letters GTT.M?” The answer was given, but! it also came from “GTTM” direct four minutes later. ; Operators on the new Mauretania | had heard their call letters on the air, j ah?l, making contact with Awarua, explained that this was their designa-j lion and that the new liner was a| day out from New York on her maiden voyage. Tire Dominion Monarch, which ) takes tho longest liner route from New Zealand to England by calling at Capetown, is always in touch with the Awarua radio station.