THE BEAM SYSTEM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 92, 16 March 1927, Page 9

THE BEAM SYSTEM.

OFFICIAL TESTS PASSED. MAROONIS NOTIFIED. * LIKING UP THE EMPIRE. LONDON, March 15. . The Marconi Company has been informed by the General Post Office that its Australian beam system has passed official tests. The Marconi Company has broadcast a statement, quoting a report from the Amalgamated Wireless of Australasia, Ltd., stating that the average number of words telegraphed each way daily during the hrst six days of the test amounted to 148,000, and increased at the end of the seven days to substantially 150,000 daily. The statement adds: “The speeds were not pressed to the highest possible point, and are no indication of the speed obtainable at the opening df the service, which may be expected very shortly. The statement pays a tribute to Australia’s persistence, as a result of which the Empire is within measurable distance of being linked up by wireless.—A. and N.Z. cable. TRIUMPH AFTER TEN YEARS. SUCCESSFUL OPERATION ASSURED. MELBOURNE, March 15. Mr Fisk, managing director of the Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd., stated today that the result of the recent tests of the Anglo-Australian beam wireless service was a for those who had fought for ten years to establish direct communication with London. Under actual test conditions, extending over seven days, the system had been operated from 13 to 19 hours per'day, with speeds ranging up to 325 words per minute. The messages had been generally particularly free from fading. Complete fading occurred between 10 o’clock in the morning and 1 in the afternoon, corresponding from midnight to 3 a.m. London time. This was not considered of any great importance, as no demand for traffic accommodation existed in London at that time. Successful operation of the British service now being assured, efforts would be turned to the Canadian route, on which it should not be more than two or three weeks before the preliminary tests were made. In order to bring the beam within the range of every centre in the Commonwealth, feeder stations were being erected in every capital city. He anticipated the possibility of crystal set users being able to listen to programmes broadcast from London, also the transmission of pictures. As certain arrangements had yet to be completed, it would be some days before the opening of the British service could be fixed.—Press Association. *■ CONTRACT CONDITIONS. MORE THAN~FULFILLED. Received March 16 8.55 a.m LONDON, March 15. “The beam is capable of a great deal more than we expected,” declared Senatore Marconi when presiding at the shareholders’ reconstruction meeting. “The seven day test of the Australian system more than fulfilled the contract conditions of an average estimated capacity of oyer 140,000 words daily which is three 'times the existing cable traffic. The . recent tests demonstrated the possibility of superimposing commercial wireless telephony upon the telegraph services”’* Senatore Marconi said that personally he was of the opinion that the system would soon be commercially available between Britain and the Dominions.

The reconstruction proposals were carried, but a poll was demanded.—A. and 'N.Z. cable.