FROM SHIP TO SHORE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 424, 4 August 1928, Page 13

FROM SHIP TO SHORE

TALKING BY WIRELESS YACHT’S ELABORATE SET The motor yacht Crusader, owned by A. K. Macomber, of California, is from the radio point of view perhaps the most elaborately fitted private yacht afloat. Programmes can be picked up by this yacht over long distances and in these days of extensive broadcasting, there are few parts of the world "where the Crusader would ever be without entertainment. Nearly every room has its loud speaker; and not content with receiving radio from outside sources, Mr. Macomber has ar ranged to transmit his own programmes from the yacht to his camp whenever he may be ashore. He is shortly to take part in a bigRame hunting expedition on the East Coast of Africa, and while on shore the hunting party will carry a number Portable receivers which will enable them to pick up conversation or music transmitted from the yacht anchored off the coast. Amusement is not the only use ''hich Mr. Macomber makes of radio. is yacht is also equipped with a complete and up-to-date installation or the transmission and reception of messages, news and eather reports, so he may keep in °se touch with the outer world. A kw. quenched Marconi spark P transmitter enables the ship to . ee . p iu communication with commerth s _H i^jons over long distances; and c ? . P’s receivers are capable of re\ing messages from all classes of Dons. The yacht is also fitted with ea *i W ‘ te^e Pi lone set, which is very wi * y operated and supplies the party P. r * vate telephone service be*j en its headquarters on the yacht I,- , any camps which may be estabSned during the expedition.