Shore to Ship Wireless Telephony

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 9, 13 September 1929, Page 26

Shore to Ship Wireless Telephony

A UNIQUE feature in Australian journalism, and also in Australjan wireless was carried out in Sydney recently, when a wireless telephone conversation was carried out by representatives of one of the evening papers and of a motion picture trade journal, with a passenger on board the s.s,/ Sierra, when the latter was 370 miles from Sydney. ‘ ' The interview was made possible by the courtesy of Mr. H, T. Fisk, manag-' ing director of Amalgamated Wireless. ¥rom a room at the Sydney office representatives of the two journals, and officials of the Fox Movietone poke to the Sierra by radio telephone? The conversation was carried out -through. A.W.A., Radio Centre, Pennant Hills, Sydney, but, unfortunately, owing to the Sierra not being equipped for modern wireless telephony, the replies of Mr. S. Crick, managing director of the Fox Movietone Co., who was the person interviewed on the Sierra, had to be transmitted from the ship by Morse code. These messages were then reeeived at the station at: La Perouse, and transmitted by ‘land line to the city office of the. company. ; The newspaper representatives spoke through the office telephone in exacthy the same manner and with the same facility as they would in the conduct of an ordinary land-line telephone. The interview by wireless telephone was &ptirely successful, the Press tives asking Mr. Orick many questions regarding his impressions of the state of the moving picture industry in the United States, especially with regard to the talkies and their future develop-' ment. , Mr. Yisk has carried out several tele‘phonic conversations with the United States, Berlin, Java. and several other oversens countries; but this"is the first time that a Press interview has taken place between Australia and an ocean-. going liner. ‘ ©