Matto Grosso Expedition

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 11, 25 September 1931, Unnumbered Page

Matto Grosso Expedition

Inexplicable Silence of Transmitter A FIRST-CLASS mystery has aet yeloped on the American amateur transmitting channels regarding the whereabouts of the operator of station KUKU. This is the call-sign of Mr. J. W. Newell, the radio amateur who accompanied the expedition to the Matto Grosso jungle region of Brazil. Since February last KUKU has been transmitting glamorous accounts of the adventures of the expedition, which is collecting natural history data for the University of Pennsylvania, and many of these vivid stories have been relayed by KDKA for the benefit of American listeners at large. The series came to an abrupt end early in April with this message from Newell, addressed to the American Radio Relay League:-"To date we have two live jaguars, one g,@ijnda, one ant-eater, two monkeys, ySiFrots, and mosquito birds. It is just possible I may be compelled to leave here ... as I have been feeling pretty low. The doctor advises it. Anyway, don’t ever come to Matto Grosso!’ Nothing has been heard from KUKU since.