RADIO FOR BYRD
ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION TESTS WITH AMERICA (Special to THE SUN) ' GISBORNE. Monday. Mr. R. J. Patty, the Gisborne radio experimenter, has for some weeks been experimenting with the Canadian Westlnghouse Company to check reception of the company’s broadcasting stations. KDIvA, WBZ. and KYW. These will be used for transmitting messages to members of the Byrd Antarctic expedition, and providing entertaining programmes for the members while they are in the polar regions. It is hoped that the American stations will be heard on telephony even when the expedition is in the most distant parts of the Antarctic, but should this fail Morse signals will be used. If any difficulty is experienced with these, Mr. Patty will operate his station as a relay station.
The expedition is to have eight radio stations, for which the following call letters have been assigned* WFBT. steamer Samson: WFA. main base to be established on the ice cap: WFB, the Floyd Bennett, a tri-motored plane: WFC, a Fairchild Wasp plane; WFD. WFE, and KFK. advance sub-bases: and WFF, Fokker plane.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 462, 18 September 1928, Page 9
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176RADIO FOR BYRD Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 462, 18 September 1928, Page 9
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