RADIO IN ARCTIC

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 48, 15 June 1928, Page 13

RADIO IN ARCTIC

ESKIMOS ListTEN IN. How Eskimos in the vicinity of Anatalok Bay, Labrador, were able to listen in on one of their own race broadcasting from New York on a recent night, was described in ra.'"o messages received by the National Broadcasting Company trom Donald MacMillan, leader of tlie Rawson-MacMiian ficid ¢xpedition, now in the Arctic. The messages were picked up by A. V. Giamatteo, of ‘the National Broadcasting Company’s staff at Bellmore, L.1., who operates amateur station 2VT, and who has been in daily communication since last November with’ Clifford

Himoe, ‘the radio operator on MacMillan’s schooner Bowdoin. Teddy Kirogluk, an Alaskan Eskimo, took part in the programme, announeing the musical selections in Iskimo language, and making a short’ speech on his experiences in New York since his arrival last December. The prin-| cipal message of the three received fiom the Arctic exploration ship Bowdoin, said: "Thank. you for musical procramme last night. With the exception of fading now.and then eyerythine came in beautifullv. The J‘skimos listening-in-Simeon, his wife Miria, and Panie-gunivk-were greatly interested, and could understand akout one-quarter of what your I’skimo said "