THE LONDON RELAY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 127, 2 June 1927, Page 14

THE LONDON RELAY

The recent double relay of ; 2LO, •Xpndon, ,by-PCJJ,.,Holland, .and 2BL, Sydney, constituted a world record in ■ broadcasting, and emplasised the tremendous advance that has been made in radio engineering within the past twelve months—even within the past three months, remarks a Sydney paper. . Within a year it has been demonstrated that it is possible to encircle the world with wireless telephony. Experiments have shown, the possibility" o£ speech uttered from the depths of the ocean being heard throughout 'the inhabited . world, from thousands of feet in the bowels; of the earth, from the highest altitudes readied by daring aviators, from explorers at the Nofth Pole, in the arid wastes Africa, and the depths of"the Brazilian, jungle. Thus has wireless annihilated distance, space, and brought mankind the^ world over within speaking 'range. ' ' « : " ' ' ' It is, however, a matter for regret that the first record in world broadcasting was hot established by British experimenters. Great Britain." has the world's best wirer less stations- and apparatus, but merely through lack of enterprise' has not yet' attempted - anything, in the nature of .world broadcasting/ wireless station sends Morse signals round-the-world twice daily. - - The beam-wireless stations afford instantaneous between Sydney and London. ■ Dayentry and 2LO, London, are generally admitted to be the world's best broadcasting, stations.'' Hence, it only requires a little enterprise on the part of."the British Broadcasting Corporation to ensure its programme being sent nightly to Australia. A begining could be; made with a weekly transmission. . It is an open secret that the beam wireless. stations .can easily be used for telephony without .in any interfering with .the Morse signals being simultaneously transmitted. It is, therefore, to be hoped that, with the co-operation of ■Si-the British and Australian Governments, and of Marconi, there! will be a speeding up of the proposed experiments in telephonic communication between London *nd Sydney. liiter-Empire broadcasting will follow as a. matter of course. „