NORWEGIAN WHALER

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 19, 25 November 1927, Page 4

NORWEGIAN WHALER

-cemee BROADCASTS HEARD MANY QUIRINS SOLVED. We have received many queries from listeners as to the identity of au unknown station heard at yarious times lately. The stranger is the Norwegian whaler operating the waters adjacent to New: Zealand. Instructions to its supporting vessels are given by ’phone, and on frequent occasions special musical aud gramophone items are "put on" for the benelit of the senitered orews, , The following letter ¢explains the position, and is of interest :- "Southerner" (Invercargill): In last week’s issue of the "Radio Record," [ see a correspondent asks what station was operating just above YVYA’s wave-length on Sunday night last after that station had closed down I was also fortunate enough to pick up this station at the commencement of their transmission on the Saturday night previously (11.15 p.m.). They first called in morse and then changed over to ’phone, when I found it to be the "Sir James Clarke Ross," the mothership of the Norwegian whalers. She } was lying in Patterson’s Inlet, Stewart Island, at the time, and the music heard was the "super" accordion and also a violin supplying music for the dance being held on board that nicht. The annonneements were in good English, though with a strong ‘Norse’ accent. Just before closing, I heard the announcer say that they would be on the air on Sunday night after the other stations had closed down, so this is evidently what vour correspondetit picked up. I could not help being amnsed at the closing down part. The "Norskvs" are evidently constant listeners to 2YA as, after wishing us all ‘happy days," the announcer said "Good-night all Radio and; Good-night."