WIRELESS DEVELOPMENT.
EMPIRE CHAIN". BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT, LONDON, Feb. 17. The Marconi Company’s report save that experiments’ in the development of the directional short wave in long distance wireless have exceeded, anticipations. Record tests had shown that continuous day and night communication with Australia could be secured. The work of installing the beam system would begin at the end of February, and the scheme for an Empire wireless chain was within sight of early completion. . , The company is now discussing with the post office the terms of the license to erect and work stations to communicate with the Continent and extra-European foreign countries, thus establishing a world-wide network oi stations. To finance the programme of Empire and foreign services 500,000 new £1 shares are being offered to shareholders at 27s 6d per share. BROADCASTING PLANS. / NEW YORK, Feb. 17. Plans are announced for linking up 18 broadcasting radio stations east of the Mississippi river with a combined range of 12,800,000 homes.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 February 1925, Page 5
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