Heard in the Artic

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 51, 6 July 1928, Page 2

Heard in the Artic

NEWS. AND ENTER- "~ TAINMENT — BROADCASTS PICKED UP. BROADCASTS intended primarily for listeners comparatively near at hand often travel miles to carry word of the world’s happenings to far away explorers. ‘ Signals from WGY, 50,000 waits, 379.5 metres, Schenectady, U.S.A., giving the dramatic story of the westward flight of the German ’plane Bremen across the Atlantic, the landing at Greenly Island and subsequent events were picked up by the radio operator of the Rawson-MacMillan Arctic expedition, now icebound in northern Labrador near Nain, which is 500 miles south-east of Greenly Is» land. News of the flight of Captain George H. Wilkins across the Arctie "region also was received. R. ¥. Strong, control room operator at WGY, and amateur station 2S5F have been in frequent code contact with the expedition. The operator in the Far North reported that 2XAD, on 21.96 metres as a rule, was heard very loud between noon and 6 pm, but from 6 to 8 p.m. signals from WGY generally were stronger. He added _, that 2XAP on 31.4 metres was good from 6 to 9 p.m. and was audible many times when WGY could not be heard, The operator also said that the explorers got the result of the ArmyNavy football game through 2XAD and the Tunney-Dempsey fight over WGY. Just before General Nobile’s airship, which has met disaster, entered the Arctie regions, the following was an- | nounced from Rome :- "While the Italian dirigible Italia eruises this summer in the Arctic seeking to add to man’s knowledge of polar geography, wireless instruments will keep its crew in touch with the supply ship, the Citta di Milano, and thus in contact with Rome, | "he supply vessel has a powerful wireless outfit which can transmit directly to a sister station in Rome near the Basilica of St. Paul’s-Without-the-j Walls.