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in extreme southern Greenland, to be there re- 

 layed to Godhavn, the capital of North Greenland. 

 At five o'clock Mr. Moller at Godhavn would then 

 broadcast it in the Danish language, and Governor 

 Bistrup listening in could hear it on his receiver. 

 Thus by a route of 2,000 miles from Mount Evans 

 to me and by an additional 7,000 miles or more of 

 slow motion the message would bridge a direct 

 distance of less than 100 miles. Mr. Moller would 

 then kindly broadcast it in the English language, 

 and our people at Mount Evans would thus learn 

 that their message had gone through safely to the 

 Governor. 



In the spring of 1929 Commander Byrd in his 

 station in "Little America" within the Antarctic, 

 tried to send a message to me at our Ann Arbor 

 station. At other times messages had come through 

 without difficulty, but on this night there was con- 

 siderable static and the message could not be 

 heard. It occurred to Mr. Hansen, Byrd's radio 

 operator, to forward the message to our station in 

 Greenland 12,000 miles distant where there would 

 probably be less disturbance, and have them relay 

 it to us in Ann Arbor. Under these conditions 

 the message went through without difficulty. A 

 curious feature which caused interest and a little 

 confusion was that the message was sent from the 



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