The Wonders of Wireless

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 23, 21 December 1928, Page 7

The Wonders of Wireless

Unique Demonstration from 2YA LISTENERS to 2YA Sunday last were without warning switched over to station KDKA, United States, to hear them conversing with Commander Byrd and .is intrepid crew in the ice-bound Antarctic. .The conditions were good and it was possible for the owner of a very modest set to hear the good wishes of the American people being extended to the expedition. But it is the wonder of the feat that takes the attention of anyone who stops to think of the happening apart from its being part of the programme. Who would have imagined when Scott and his gallant men were fighting to conquer the silent, solitary waste, that in a,few years another expedition was to attempt to carry on the work: so nobly commenced and that it would be possible for the owner o* an apparatus costing a few pence to hear Christmas greetings being extended them by their countrymen? }