A Great Record

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 7, 30 August 1929, Page 9

A Great Record

| 412) Stations Logged Me. §. R. ELLIS, of Okato, Taranaki, ~-sends a eutting from "Radio Digest."-, This: cutting ‘tells of. an invalid lady, Miss Jennie R.- Miller, of New York, who has been’ bedridden for 20. years, , She has won many trophies for long-distance reception, and of these she is very proud. She writes: "Tt am an artist and spend most of the ‘ daylight hours painting’ pictures, ‘being . gifted with this lovely faculty since I was old. enough to hold a pencil.’ tC love this work, and I suppose that, you wonder how I can work though in bed,’ put where there is a will there. is a Ways et ‘ "The Iongest distance ,I have. ever. had is: 3L0, Melbourne, but I have also iad IOW, Buenos Aires, Argentine, and’. 5NO, Neweastle, England. It. is- no° trick at all to pick up FKI, Los. An--seles, or PWX, ‘Havana. tg "Jt was last summer that I first:jicked up the Australian station. I vas keyed to-tune.in. the bulletins of * he flight of the Bellanca to Berlin, At 3.15 a.m. I picked up'a very weak. sigs: nal,"and a few. seconds later T heard: 1. man. speaking, But the static was" noisy, so I just marked the dial setting’. and determined to try it again. © ;% "The next cool evening that’ came: along I began listening at 3 o'clock.’ At 8.05°I heard the call 3L0, Mel-' bourne, It was very clear and distinct,’ and then I heard very clearly ‘a piano solo. ; A's ‘log a I live Iwill never forget fle. thrill’ of those precious" mo~ ments. 8 Cet PE