WIRELESS WONDERS
POSSIBILITIES FOR 1928.
TELEPHONY TO AUSTRALIA. SEEKING REMEDY FOR. FADING. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT Received 10.10 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Dec. 29. The possibilities for 1928 include wireless telephony to Australia, the date .for wii ( ich depends ion certain Marconi experiments, the apparatus for which will not be completed till the results of experiments with the Canadian beam service are known. It is understood that the British Post Office within a few weeks will announce that it lias achieved perfectly secret transAtJantic wireless telephony by means of disintegration and “turning over” sound waves at the transmitting point and piecing them together again at the receiving point. Meanwhile Mr. Franklin, Signor Marconi's right-hand inan, is giving special attention to the cause ol and a remedy for fading-out oil the Australian beam, which is now losing considerable traffic through twelve hours’ fading from late afternoon. It is suspected that this is due to summertime radiation of heat from the sands of Australia’s arid hinterland. It is hoped to overcome this next summer.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 December 1927, Page 5
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171WIRELESS WONDERS Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 December 1927, Page 5
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