AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 22 June 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

WIRELESS TESTS

Vi CABLE- I'EESS Abnuva AT rr>N—COPTf EIGHT MELBOURNE, June 21.

Mr H. It. Love, chairman of the Victorian branch of the Wireless Institute and Trans-Pacific Committee, at a meeting of the Institute, announoeu the result of the American tests. He said that the distance averaged 13,900 miles. A short wave length and low power were used. Twenty-three stations were involved, 3 ret the mesasge despatched on May 17 was word perfect.

ilr 11. Hull, who conducted the tests in New Zealand, states that the tests were eminently successful. Two ways of communication had been employed. The messages were clearer at the commercial stations, which were a thousand m:les nearer, using 150 times the power. Mr .J. Court, delegate to the broadcasting conference, said a movement was on foot to contest the proposed regulations. If it was successful the regulations would be revised. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.