WIRELESS FEAT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 73, 13 March 1930, Page 7

WIRELESS FEAT

AUCKLAND AMATEUR'S ACHIEVEMENT.

TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION WITH FRANCE. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, March 12. An Auckland amateur wireless enthusiast, Mr. C. N. Edwards of Point Chevalier, has succeeded in establishing for the first time two-way communication wireless between New Zealand and Europe on 10 metres. He spoke with an amateur in France, the call-sign of whose station was FBAW.

This is believed to be a world’s record long-distance communication for such a low wavelength. Contact with the French station was established at 9 p.m on Tuesday. The communication both ways was complete, and lasted twenty minutes, the messages coming through very clearly. Mr. Edwards used a UV2O3A valve with an input of 80 watts. The receiver is the usual three-valve short-wave type. Mr. Edwards, whose call-sign is ZLIAA, was the first amateur transmitter to be licensed in Auckland, and his enthusiasm for radio bore fruit in several interesting directions. Toward the end of 1925 ho obtained communication with the Ross Sea whaling expedition in Antarctica, and in April the following year he conversed for over an hour with the Wilkins Expedition in Alaska. More recently he spoke with South Africa on 20 metres.