OUR WIRELESS STATION'S ACTIVITIES 



can receive messages through a voice broadcast 

 from the radio station at Godhavn, the capital of 

 North Greenland. 



Every afternoon at five o'clock the natives can 

 be seen gathering about the door of the Governor's 

 house, where he may be seen with the telephone 

 headpiece sitting before a radio receiver. All im- 

 portant news of the day, and with it any radio 

 messages as well, come in by the voice of Mr. Hol- 

 ton Moller, the government's very efficient radio 

 operator at Godhavn. On rare occasions when a 

 ship lies in the harbor, but only then, answers to 

 these messages can be returned over the ship's 

 radio. 



During the winter of 1927-8 the following radio 

 message reached me at Ann Arbor from Mr. 

 Oscanyan : "Please tell Governor Bistrup that the 

 dog-sleds will start back Monday". I realized the 

 necessity of having this message go forward, be- 

 cause the winter having been exceptionally warm, 

 the fjord between Holstensborg and Sarkardlit 

 was probably not frozen, and the motor-boat would 

 have to be sent in for the returning dog-sled party. 

 My message to the Governor went by cable to 

 London and was forwarded by cable to Reykjavik 

 in Iceland, from where it went out by long- 

 wave wireless to Julianehaab near Cape Farewell 



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