RADIO CONFERENCE
DRAFTING CONVENTION SCOPE OF STATIONS DEFINED Washington, October 10. The sub-committee reached a tentative agreement on the first four articles of the proposed new Radio Convention, which the present conference is attempting to draft. The articles define the scope of the convention stations, and on the subject of international re gulation establish special provisions for the obligatory exchange of radio telegrams. They provide for limited services Proposals on the four articles are offered bv France, Italy, Britain, the United State's, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and Czecho-Slovakia that would modify the present convention The United States is particularly concerned’with article 2, in which it is proposed to define international service as “radio communication between two or more stations not within the jurisdiction of a single high contracting partv.” It is understood that the United States wishes its radio services to its Pacific possessions considered national instead of international, and by the proposed definition aims to avoid a definition of “international” service as equivalent to “transoceanic.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 15, 12 October 1927, Page 11
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