WIRELESS ’PHONE
SERVICE WITH AUSTRALIA
PERFECT SECRECY ACROSS ATLANTIC.
LONDON, Dec-. 29. Tim possibilities of 1923 include wireless telephony to Australia. The date depends on the result of Senntore Ala room's experiments, the apparatus for which will not he completed till the results of the experiments with the Canadian beam are known.
It is understood that the British Post Office, within a few weeks, will announce that it lias achieved perfectly secret trans-Atlantic wireless telephony hy means of disintegration and “turning over" the sound waves
at the transmitting point, and piecing them together again at the receiving point. -Meanwhile. Air Franklin. Alatconi's right hand man. is giving special attention to the cause and remedy of fading out on the Australian beam, which is now losing considerable traffic through 12 hours of fading from late in the afternoon It is suspected that this is due to the summer-time radiation of heat from the sands of Australia's arid hinterland. It is hoped to overcome this next summer.—A. and N.Z. C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10473, 31 December 1927, Page 9
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168WIRELESS ’PHONE Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10473, 31 December 1927, Page 9
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