Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-31
RADIO AMATEURS
HELP EXPLORERS
Expeditions to Far Corners OF
Earth Offer Interesting
Entertainment.

Expeditions are the radio amateurs
speciality. Explorers and adventures
whose destination may be the farther
most corners of the earth now embark
with complete confidence that they will
never lose touch with civilization, pro-
vided they are equipped with suitable
radio apparatus. There a,d is always a1rays,,r a
throughout the world. young and old,
tuning-in nightly for messages from far
away places.
These amateurs hear the dots and
dashes that spell out messages on re-
ceiving sets capable Of tuning TO the
range of wave lengths far below the
lowest point on the dial Of the average
broadcast receiving set. Special appa-
ratus must be used, but short-wave
eouipment is readily obtainable on the
market for those qualified to operate 1t.
Nine Expeditions Now Out.
The officia1 organ Of the American
Radio Relay League, QST, lists nine
expeditions with which amateurs may
now contact. Most frequently heard, OF
course, Is the Byrd expedition at Little
America, which has frequently relayed
its reports via amateur stations when
direct Communication with New York
failed because Of peculiar atmospheric
conditions Comdr. Byrd's supply ship.
the Eleanor Boiling, Is also working
| through the mateurs while IN port ~
Dunedin, New Zealand.
Amateurs in the Philippines have
regularly contacted with Stuart Seaton,
a young amateur from Washington, who
Is radio operator aboard the Carnegie
Institutes yacht, Carnegie, now In the
second year Of three-year cruise to
study terrestrial magnetism in all the
seven seas.
The all-American Lyric Malayan ex-
petition, now In the jungleS OF Borneo,
| where University of Chicago scientists
are making an anthropological study
Of the natives, has also kept in contact
with the world throufh amateurs In the
Philippines.
Harry w. Wells, another young ANA
teur from Washington, and John Prov
ince of Red Lodge, Mont, are radio
operators with the All-American Lyric
expedition. Several months ago some
concern was felt for the safety of this
party when for 10 days Manila amateurs
were unable to raise" it by radio.
| 1t developed that the radios battery
supply had become SO weakened that
the explorers, who were in q territory
where the friendship Of the natives was
to their supply base.
Heard Lindbergh'S Reports.
oxford University of England has an
expedition now in British Guiana, with
British amateur handling the radio.
| The italian expedition in the Arctic
has been worked while at Nova Sembla,
an island north Of Russia, by Paul s.
| Beale, Detroit amateur. Charles D.
Perrine, jr., of Hermosa Beach, Calf,
has reported working the British cable
ship, Dellwood, which is on cruise in
midatlantic.
The Ford Motor Co.'S ship, Lake
Ormac, which has its base at the rub
Der plantation at Santa Ream, Brazil,
has frequently been heard by amateurs
in this country, as has the yacht Ripple,
owned by T. E. Bishop of Los Angeles,
| which is sailing from Gloucester, Mass.
to Halifax, Nova Scotia, calling at ports
1 en- route.
When Col. Lindbergh and his party
were exploring Maya ruins recently va
rious amateurs reported hearing the de-
tailed reports that were transmitted
from his airplane, and the messages
were successfully picked UP by the radio
stations of the Pan-American Anyways
at Miami.
| (Copyright, 1929. by North American News
| paper Alliance.)