FIVE CONTINENTS IN ONE DAY.

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 14, 19 October 1928, Page 6

FIVE CONTINENTS IN ONE DAY.

ANOTHER item that we record to-day is even more sensational in its revelation of the present standard of radio than the success attendant on the transmission of the flight of the Southern Cross. This is the news recording the attainment of Mr. F. W. Sellens, the well-known short-wave enthusiast, of in one day hearing stations from the five continents of the world-Europe, Asia, America, Africa, and Australia. Africa is the continent which has previously presented the greatest difficulties to listeners as reception from that point has been difficult. The feat of receiving African transmissions on Morse has been performed. Now, however, loudspeaker reception of broadcast music is recorded. This emanated from a new station erected at Nairobi in British East Africa. The thought that, through radio, one can sit in one’s home in Wellington and listen to the events of the whole world is indeed thrilling. No wonder that the growing facilities in the short-wave area are attracting an increasing number of enthusiasts. Short-wave reception presents its own problems which are only surmounted at present by considerable enthusiasm and skill, but the rate of progress being made is so remarkable that it is impossible to say that any predicted performance is impossible.