TALKING WITH AMERICA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 178, 18 October 1927, Page 9

TALKING WITH AMERICA

2FC, SYDNEY, SPEAKS Many listeners felt extremely like eavesdroppers about 9.30 last night when a message was broadcast from Sydney, and a moment later they heard a man in America making a reply. At the commencement of the evening’s programme, the president of the Australian Press Association spoke for a few minutes to listeners in Canada and the United States- His speech was broadcast simultaneously by 2FC and the short wave station, 2ME, owned by the same company. The talk was picked up in Pittsburgh and a reply broadcast from the high-pow-ered station, KDKA, owned by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Short w**ves were again used to send the message across the thousands of miles of land and s©a back to Sydney. Here the message was intercepted and rebroadcast by 2FC. Listeners in Auckland who heard the test state that everything came through clearly and with very little interference from static or fading. The speakers might have been in the same room instead of thousands of miles apart. This is similar to the system of "talking back” originated by 2BL during the time "Uncle Jack” was in charge. In this questions sent by telephone were broadcast along with the replies from the studio. This has been tried once by ITA.