WIRELESS WAVE-LENGTHS

Evening Star, Issue 21620, 16 January 1934, Page 7

WIRELESS WAVE-LENGTHS

HEW PLAN INAUGURATED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 15. Wireless wave length changes to the new Lucerne plan, affecting 200 European stations, have 'been successfully inaugurated. Since midnight the ether has been alive with tests, tirelessly repeated, in order to enable the central listening station at Brussels to check the accuracy of the new ranges and suggest adjustments. OVERLAPPING AND CONFUSION ELIMINATED LONDON, January 15. (Received January 16, at 9 a.m.) The ‘ Daily Mail ’ says that one of the most sweeping changes in the history of broadcasting was made on January 14, when twenty-three radio stations throughout Europe, affecting 1,000,000,000 listeners and thirty-eight countries, changed their wave lengths in accordance with the Lucerne plan. One man sitting in Brussels supervised the change-over, speaking to stations successively. As the result of the alteration overlapping and confusion are largely eliminated. British listeners are enabled to hear 25 per cent, more entertainment. The tests were continued until dawn, 2,000 engineers and thousands of enthusiasts listening while the nations played musical chairs amid long-drawn wails and howls of heterodyning and spatters of Morse. . More tongues were heard than in the Tower of Babel.