THE RADIO VOICE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 131, 4 June 1924, Page 5

THE RADIO VOICE

SPEECH FROM POLDHU TO

SYDNEY.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)

SYDNEY, 3rd June.

Mr. Fisk, of Amalgamated Wireless, of Australasia,- Ltd., has announced that the human voice was successfully transmitted from Poldhu, Cornwall, to Vaucluse, Sydney, on Sunday. This was the first successful wireless telephonic communication between England and Australia. ' : ■ ■ ' .' ' '-.-

Ppldhu, near the Lizard, has been made famous by the Marconi wireless Ration whiph has been in operation .there since ,1901. " Marconi chose the site for his' first attempt at signalling across the' Atlantic, and on .12th December, 1901, he received signals at St. John's, Newfoundland. , His transmitting aerial was a conical arrangement of 400 wires supported by four towers 215 feet high and 200 feet apart, and this was energised by an alternator, using a rotary disc discharger. The receiving equipment with which Marconi heard these first signals employed a coherer, and the aerial was a- wire 400 feet long held up by a box kite. Poldhu is thus' a historic' name in the story of wireless, and it is. an interesting addition to its fame that it should have been used in the impprtanj; experiment reported to-day. 'But this is not the first time that antipodean telephony has been recorded. Several weeks ago the Eiffel Tower (Paris) broadcast -vyas heard by Eadio 'Awarua, the Government wireJess station at Bluff.