Dog and Mouse Act

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 43, 6 May 1932, Page 4

Dog and Mouse Act

Novel Broadcast by 2ME "THE first dog to bark his way round the world was assisted in his efforts recently by Amalgamated Wireless through that organisation’s worldwide broadcasting station VK2MHE. Mr. BD. T. Fisk, managing-director of A.W.A., and his engineers, were carrying out tests in connection with round-the-world-wireless. He was speaking to Mr. Hitt, of the General Hlectric Company’s station at Schenectady, New York, when Mr. Hitt’s dog ran into the studio in pursuit of a mouse. The Sydney engineers heard the squeaking of the mouse, the barking of the dog, and the exclamations of the American engineers as the chase raged up and down. Finally the mouse was captured, and Mr. Hitt held it up by the tail in front of the microphone, where it continued to squeak as the dog bounded into the air barking nd snapping. While this was going on, the Schenectady station was linked up with a station at Amsterdam, by which the uproar in the studio was relayed to the Bandoeng station-in Java. Thence it was rebroadcast to VK2ME at Sydney, and so was passed back to Schenectady,. where the engineers could hear poth the original barking and squeaking and the reproduction in their broadcasting receiver after the noise had travelled round the world.