How the Prince's Speech was Broadcast
Buenos Aires to London to New Zealand
AT 5.80 am. on the Sunday before last all New Zealand = stations carried out a rebroadcast of station GBP, London, on the occas’ of. the opening of the BritExhibition at Buenos Aires by HH. the Prince of Wales. Reception in New Zealand was particularly good, and listeners through the Dominion followed the Prince’s speech without difficulty. ‘ There is always something fascinating in receiving speech from the other side of the world, and although feats of this kind are common enough at the present time, it is seldom that there is brought into use such a length of radio channel as was employed,.on this -occasion. The speech of the Prince of Wales was conveyed from Argentine te England, and on to New Zealand, the total distance involved amounting to approximately 19,000 miles. Vrom the Prince’s microphone in Buenos Aires the speech was conveyed the Hurlingham transmitting station, about 12 miles from the city, and by means of a directional aerial the signals were retransmitted from station GBP, and reached New Zealand after. travelling eastward over Northern Hurope and Asia, thus completing a circult around the greater: part of the globe from Buenos Aires via London to New Zealand.
For the purpose of reception in the case of station 2YA, the Post and Telegraph Department co-operated with the Radio Broadcasting Company, the signals being received at the Department’s
receiving station at Mt. Crawford, and thence passed on to Station 2YA by telephone line in the usual way for rebroadcast. In the cases of 1YA, 3YA, and 4YA, GBP’s signals were picked up by
receivers located in the suburbs, as is customary when rebroadcasts of overseas stations are conducted-GBL’s sigA. a 1als being received direct after their reception in London per medium of the adio telephony system from Buenos .ires. From midnight until about 8 a.m. New Zealand time, the signals travel custward from England up over Northern Hurope and Asia to Australia and New Zealand. From about 6 p.m. to midnight the reverse route is taken; ‘hat is, southward across the Western vortion of Europe skirting the west -oast of Africa across the Atlandie to the southern end of- South \merica across the South Pacific, and thence to New Zealand and Australia. As the transmission in this case was vetween the hours of midnight and 8 ium, New Zealand time, the signals followed the first-mentioned route, and the accompanying map will provide lis--eners both with the route taken and the distances traversed.
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Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 37, 27 March 1931, Page 3
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423How the Prince's Speech was Broadcast Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 37, 27 March 1931, Page 3
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