Heeney—Tunney Broadcast

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 16, 2 November 1928, Page 8

Heeney—Tunney Broadcast

eee T echnical Appreciation (THE suceess of the Heeney-Tunney ght from a radio point of view will still linger in the memory of listeners. As a technical feat the radio service then given took high rank, and copies of the "Radio Record" outlining the treat given New Zealand listeners were posted by Mr. A. Gibbs, Chief Telegraph Engineer, to a number of technical friends in America. The article in the "Record" outlined the accomplishments of the Post and ‘Telegraph operators in picking up Morse messages on shortwave and making them speedily available to the broad: casting staff. Description was also given of the success achieved in picking up and re-broadcasting the special midnight summary of the fight arranged for by the Broadcasting Company. The feat represented by picking up such a tremendously long-distance reception and rebroadcasting it attracted the interest of the American engin-

eers. In acknowledging reeeipt of the "Radio Record," Mr. Otto B. Blackwell. transmission development engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, says :- "T have been much interested in reading the article of the ‘Radio Record’ regarding the picking up and broadeasting of the description of the Heeney-Tunney championship fight. There must have been a good deal of thrill in broadeasting so tremendously long-distance reception, even though we are all becoming used to wonders in the communication art." Mr. William H. Copen, of the International Standard Blectric Corporation. New York, writes :-‘‘So far as I know. this is the longest rebroadcast which has been successfully done, and I feel that you are all to be congratulated on the results you obtained.’ Mr. Lloyd Espenschied, also of the American Telephone and Telegraph ‘Company, comments :-‘‘It seems somewhat incongruous that the staging of a fight should be the occasion for connecting together our countries telephonically! Let us hope this is just the forerunner of a more intimate and sustuined connection, and one which will

be of economic and social use, as well as of sporting interest." Mr. Ralph Bown, of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company’s New York office, says :-‘"I was particularly interested in looking over the ‘Radio Record’ and learning something of the personnel and organisation of broadeasting in New Zealand. I have seen copies "of the publication put out by the British Broadcasting Company of a somewhat similar nature to the ‘Record,’ but have never seen anything of the kind in this country. It seems to me a very useful publication."