FLORIDA STATION LOGGED

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 25, 6 January 1928, Page 4

FLORIDA STATION LOGGED

INTERESTING AMERICAN COMMENT. Some little time ago, Mr. Guy C. Holmes, of Masterton, logged station WDA, Tampa, Florida, U.S.A., suce cessfully listening to a number of the items. Mr. Holmes communicated with the "Tampa Daily Times," owners of the station, and the following interesting reference to the feat was made in that paper :- N.Z. RADIO FANS. NEARLY 10,000 MILES AWAY. ENJOY THE "TIMES" PROGRAMME ‘It?s a long way from Tampa to New Zealand. Nearly ten thousand miles to the south-west lie these South Pacific Islands-nearly half-way around the globe-months by sailing vessel, weeks by steamer, and days by airplane. Yet, a voice from Tampa was flung out over this long gap last week’ in an infinitesimal part of a second by WDARE, the "fimes’ radio station. And

the operators are claiming a long-dis-tance record for a 500-watt station. "It was during the Tom Cat program broadcast. at midnight Monday-mid-night here, not there-when three radio fans in different New Zealand cities heard the boys in WDAE’s studio doing their stuff-and hardly believed their ears. . ‘Letters, giving enthusiastic accounts of the excellent reception of the midnight program, came in from the faraway islands-and WDAE_ operators hardly believed their eyes. The letters came from Masterton, Matamata, and Clevedon, South Auckland, New .Zealand. One from Guy C. Holmes, another from K. H. O’Halloran, and the third from George R. Munro. ; Apparently they suspected that WDAE men would have their doubts, and to substantiate their claims to the Tom Cat ptize for the most distant listener, the letters enumerated the various numbers on the midnight program, and each urged that the prize Tom Cat be sent poste haste. "Ten thousand miles is a long way, but if the voices rode the ether 10,000 miles west, the same sounds probably travelled the same distance east, a total of 29,000 miles, lacking just 5000 miles of circling the globe."