BEAM WIRELESS.
AUSTRALIAN STATION TESTS. RESULTS WERE DISAPPOINTING. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 1.55 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Jan. 24. Until Maroonis issue a statement tomorrow the full extent of the shortcomings of the beam wireless tests will not be revealed, but inquiries disclosed that in the Post- Office examina tion, the tabulated daily results showed deficiencies below the contract stipulation or one hundred words pere minute over seven hours pere clay; that the Post Office informed Signor Marconi that it could not take over control of the -station, and that further_ tests were necessary. When these will be carried out is, at present, undecided, it is revealed that the results were disappointing even when the alternate east and west routes round the globe were- used, also that London got Melbourne better than Melbourne got juondon.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 January 1927, Page 9
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134BEAM WIRELESS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 January 1927, Page 9
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