Messages to Byrd

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 49, 21 June 1929, Page 31

Messages to Byrd

ORE than 38000 pérsonal messages from Great Britain, Canada, Germany, and South Africa have been transmitted to the North and Sonth Polar regions during the past winter in the series of "Atctic-Antarctic" broadcasts staged by the Canadian Westinghouse Company, says a Montreal . message. The stations participating were KDKA Pittsburgh, FKX Chicago, WBZ Springfield, and WBZA Boston, Mass. The addressees included members of the Canadian Mounted Police, . Commander Byrd’s Antarctic Expedition, trappers, traders, and missionaries.