"WIRELESS POLICE"

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 19

"WIRELESS POLICE"

WATCH FOR SECRET STATIONS

The British authorities concerned have taken every possible step to guard against ■ the^ use of secret wireless stations for illicit purposes.

It is claimed that no ; transmitter could be habitually used in England without being tracked down by what may be described as the.'wireless police of the Post Office Department—a band of specially-trained engineers who. have detector posts in various parts of the country, says the "Daily Mail." . , Eecent disclosures concerning: the operations of unauthorised transmitting stations in-England have drawn attention to the ease with which anyone with the necessary wireless engineering knowledge can construct" and operate a transmitting station of sufficient power "to reach almost anyparti.of Europe. ■.' There has been no case yet reported of the use of an unauthorised, wireless station" for anti-social >purposes, but it is no secret that there are certain /organisations in England which have in mind the use of wireless for the dissemination of propaganda should Britain at any time find herself in the grip of a, general strike. " . ; ; ' , These organisations would .use wireless not only for fanning discontent in England, tmt^also for establishing communication with Continental sympathisers. . '■""'• t ■ ■ ■ Secret wireless stations on the Continent could also be used for propaganda purposes in England, but so far only tho Moscow station has been reported to have been'used for this purpose. ; An expert explained, to the "Daily Mail" that the only form of transmitter in Britain which could hope to.escape detection by the wireless polico for any length, of time would bo ono which never operated from tho samo place twice. - "It might bo possible,"_he said, " to i equip a .vehicle such, as _a?pantechnicon with a'broadcasting apparatus, but I ,there would be great difficulty in maintaining a regular and powerful transmission with any degree of efficiency."