BEAM WIRELESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 211, 7 September 1927, Page 7

BEAM WIRELESS.

UNKING THE EMPIRE

India, Canada, Australia, And

Africa.

TEST OP 150 WORDS A MINUTE

(British Official Wireless.)

{Received 12.30 p.m.)

RUGBY, September 6. The beam wireless service between Great Britain and India is working to-day, having been opened at midnight. Thus the programme authorised in 1923 for linking the Empire by wireless is now complete.

As the beam wireless communication with Canada, Australia and South Africa is already working satisfactorily all these four transmissions are operated from the Central Telegraph Office, London, from where messages are sent on the land line to the actual beam transmitters situated in different parts of the country. Tests have shown in regard to the Indian service that beam stations can without difficulty exceed the capacityrequired in the contract, which stipulates for one hundred words per minute both ways for 12 hours out of 24. Actually the service has worked consistently at 150 words per minute both ways for 18 hours out of 24 and the speed of the service is really governed at present by the landline instruments in central offices.

The service was opened this mornins with an exchange of congratulatory greetings.