A half dozen letters from residents in New Zealand, 12,000 miles from this section, or half way around the globe, topped the foreign fan mail record of WBT, Charlotte station, one day during the past week. Added interest was found in an additional communication from one Sergeant F. G. Hayes of Fort Shatter, Honolulu, T. H., who wrote that the program was "coming in fine; I thought it was KGMB, Honolulu, instead of WBT."
Three of the New Zealand letters from the city of Dunedin, one of which enclosed a folder describing the community as the "Brighter Britain of the South" as well as the Wonderland of the Pacific."
Port Chambers, Christchurch and Ivercargill also acknowledged WBT's signals, the consensus of expressions being to the effect that reception was loud, clear and distortionless, with little or no fading. Static caused slight interference, despite winter's mantle covering New Zealand, and several of the letters mentioned weather conditions as being snowy, and with much sleet.
Leaving the Carolinas in summer, it is an interesting slant that the radio transmission passes through spring or fall season, depending on the path traveled, to arrive at the other end of the world in mid-winter.