The Archive · 1928

Possibility of Signals

Wireless experimenters interested in short wave radio transmission have an excellent opportunity to indulge in some D-X work, by endeayfrom the piloted by Captain Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm, intrepid Australian aviators, who are a Australia, Specimens of messages picked up from the Southern Cross, sequence, were: "Land sighted! "No land, we were fooled by clouds, We can stay up four hours longer; "Guess we are lost;" "Got bearings from Richmond," "Land sighted, Just enough oil to make it."—Reuter Kawai Is., June 2.

The monoplane Southern Cross, Messages have been received by 'A.C/8-A.G., operated bY station M.", operated by Col. G. F.C. Campbell, Californa, to the effect that the "Southern Cross, is equipped with short wave apparatus, operating at a wave length of about 15 metres and with a 240 cycle note, the call being "K.H.A.B."

Radio enthusiasts should note that Jonge dashes are a characteristic of the transmission, which is mainly' concerned with giving conditions Southern Cross, which flew here The engined monoplane Sune 3.

yesterday from' Honolulu, left to-Way on a 3,000-mile flight to Suva, Fiji, Captain Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm, accompanied by two Americans, left Oakland, Cal on board, und that #0 far as reception by the "Southern Cross" is concerned, this limited to mar or powerful xending stations owing to engine interference.

Should signals from "K. H. A. B." he received in China, a report will be appreciated by Messrs. G. Gallet A G.) and A. Guillabert

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