HIGH-POWER WIRELESS

Evening Star, Issue 19003, 27 July 1925, Page 5

HIGH-POWER WIRELESS

15 RO ADC AS I’ING EXPERIMENTS. SCHENECTADY, July 25. New York reports that station WGY General Electric Company will broadcast special high-power test programmes at midnight on July 25, July 28, and July 30. They will bo of an hour’s duration. The station will employ 50,000 watts, a hundred times greater than the power used by ordinary stations. Engineers are experimenting for the purpose of reporting to Mr H. C. Hoover at the next national radio conference. —A. and N.Z. Cable. COMMUNICATION WITH ENGLAND. DUNEDIN PICKED UP. LONDON, July 20. ( Received July 27, at 10.15 a.m.) Signals by the Melbourne wireless station A3BD were picked up with exceptional strength the last two mornings by station G2KF, Loudon. The Dunedin station NZIAO washboard at a slightly less strength. G2KE desires A 3131) to listen in during the current week at 0 o’clock in the morning, English summer time, on a wave length of forty-throe metres, with a view to determining the best length on which important telephony experiments should shortly be carried out. G2KF was the first station to pick up Macmillan’s Arctic expedition, and was the medium of transmitting messages from the members of the expedition to America. —A. and N.Z. Cable.