BEAM SYSTEM.
♦ — DANGER IN WAR. STATEMENTS AT SENATE ENQUIRY. <.3»aoil Ota owjf COIiaZSPOMDEIsT.,: SYDNEY, May 2. Mr E. G. Beard, chief engineer for United Distributors Co., Ltd., giving evidence yesterday before the Senate select committee, wuish if investigating wireless transmission charges, declared that if another European war occurred beam wireless would be a danger to Australia. Mr Beard said that the Germans or any other enemy could erect a plant within 24 hours that would put the beam plant in England oat of commission. It would be a month before j the beam could b# ckanged. Within
three minutes of that ehange the enemy would again have the plant out of order. This would bo continue that it would only be possible to communicate between Britain and Australia for about three minutes in every month. It was unsafe, he declared, to rely upon beam wireless in time of war. Mr Beard said he had wireless experience in the Royal Navy and in the Boyal Australian Navy before joining the company. A non-beam Installation would not cost more than £SOOO. The public in Australia were not sufficiently acquainted with the advantages of the short wave system. The beam system, he said in conclusion, was- already on the decline.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 18 May 1929, Page 10
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