GIRDLING THE EARTH
SHORT-WAVE TRANSMISSION
RADIO SOCIETY'S AMBITION.
(CNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIQHI.)
(SIDNEY SUN CABLE.)
(Received 21st October, 3 p.m.)
LONDON, 20th October.
The establishment of wireless touch with New Zealand is the result of inauguration by the British Radio Society of experiments whereby amateurs take the air for eight hours after midnight three out of every five nights, the remaining two being allotted to amateurs in France, Sweden, Denmark, and Switzerland.
(< The society's official statement says : "We are_ attempting to discover exactly what is possible by short-wave transmission and reception on small power. Our greatest ambitions are to establish' communication with Australia. We have picked up South America, but not .established a two-way communication. "The Postmaster-General has granted a concession to the society's members, allowing increased sending power for tests abroad." -.
Mr. Partridge, living at Merton, heard Mr. Bell's New Zealand signals, though they were weak. Sir George Fenwick, in a letter to the Press, that he heard of the establishment -of communication with deep pleasure. He is glad that the honour of first girdling the earth is shared with Mr. Bell, whose assiduous attention to wireless is thereby rewarded.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 97, 21 October 1924, Page 8
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190GIRDLING THE EARTH Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 97, 21 October 1924, Page 8
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