OUR WIRELESS STATION'S ACTIVITIES 



to Copenhagen. This seemed to me an excellent 

 arrangement, and I complimented Oscanyan on 

 his thoughtfulness and generosity. 



The matter passed out of my mind until shortly 

 after leaving Holstensborg on the Disko, when the 

 radio operator came to me with the somewhat start- 

 ling news that she was now engaged to Mr. 

 Oscanyan. A light began now to break over me. 

 Though I had delivered to her a letter of "in- 

 structions" together with the instrument, I had no 

 doubt that other matters of great intimacy had 

 passed to the lady and been received on the short- 

 wave receiver. The "Yes" had no doubt gone 

 out in long-wave to be received at Mount Evans 

 on the station's long-wave receiver generously 

 loaned us by the Radio Corporation of America, 

 which was thus, I suppose, a party to the pro- 

 ceedings. Mr. Oscanyan sent out the news of this 

 contract by short-wave radio to an amateur station 

 at his home in New Jersey, but it was picked up 

 by another New Jersey amateur operator, and 

 since affairs of the heart seem to possess large 

 news value, the full story appeared on the front 

 page of the New York Times and other metro- 

 pohtan papers, as well as in the papers of Copen- 

 hagen. 



For me the affair had a more serious side since 



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