Click HERE if you have RealPlayer (audio)  version 5 or 6 to hear a 1934 short-wave telephone link between Australia (Melbourne) and the Netherlands (the Haque). The prime-minister of the Netherlands is talking to the crew of the Uiver passenger plane (a DC-2) which arrived in Melbourne as second (but as first passenger plane) in the Europe to Melbourne air race.

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The same sound file (13 minutes, Mpeg, 1.4 Mb .mp2) but with limited quality HERE

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This radio link started in Kootwijk to Indonesia by short-wave,
and via a (short-wave?) radio relay in Indonesia further to Melbourne.