NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2590, 7 June 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A report that telephone conversations, transmitted by wire, had been heard through radio receiving sets which had no connection with the telephone wires, was recently investigated by the Gisborne district telegraph engineer (Air Mason) states the “Poverty Bay Herald. It was reported that the conversations had been plainly heard when the machine was on a freak tuning and Mr M nson c< msidered that if the report were substantiated, a new field of radio research might be opened up. Investigation proved however, that the amateurs whose set recorded the “conversation” had, in the act of disconnecting the set, caught snatches of a vague vocal message which they were unable to define and which they surmised might have been a telephone conversation. Mr Mason, discussing the incident with a reporter, stated that it was eonceiv; ible that a fault in the telephone wiring might result in a leak that would be recorded by a sens a five radio plant, but that if the wiring were faultless he did not see how the message could leak. He had never heard of any similar eases.