AUSTRALIA HEARD IN A CAR

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 49, 29 June 1928, Page 14

AUSTRALIA HEARD IN A CAR

SEVERAL people sitting in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, in a saloon ear fitted as a wireless receiving station on a recent evening heard Melbourne City clock striking 6 o'clock (Monday morning) just after the London clocks had chimed 9 o’clocl (summer time). .. A six-valve super-sonic receiver was placed in the car with an aerial of about 8ft. of copper trolley-wire used by electric trams, rigged to the top of the car, The earth wire was connected to a grease nipple on the mo-tor-car frame. Mendelssohn’s "Spring Song" and YWandel’s "Largo" were heard at full loudspeaker strength within the sa-~ loon with practically no atmospheric interference, and the whole of the news announcements came through perfectly. °