BEAM WIRELESS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 221, 16 August 1927, Page 2

BEAM WIRELESS.

AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. PESSIMISM UNWARRANTED. Received August 16, 12.50 a.in. SYDNEY, Aug. 16. Mr E. T. Fisk, managing director of Amalgamated Wireless Ltd., commenting on the cable from London concerning the operation of the beam service, said that from his experience of the operation of the system nothing had occurred to justify so pessimistic a report. To date there had been no delays in the service, which daily was handling a great volume of traffic at a high speed. On one or two occasions, however, there' had been an accumulation of messages, which had justified the company diverting a small portion of the accumulation to the cable services, but there had been no interruption of a serious character. The period of fading at the change over time, in which the direction of the beam transmission was altered to obtain the benefit of the darkness, was never long in duration and the service was usually available for 17 hours a day and sometimes 23 hours. It was always possible, Mr Fisk continued, to communicate at least nine hours.a day, but it was seldom that tlie period was so short.—Press Association. The London cable stated "that the vagaries) of the Australian beam wireless system continues to exercise the minds of those engaged in research work. The Australian beam system is not yet fulfilling the British stipulation for seven hours daily at 100 words a minute, though it is getting more than the stipulated number at a lower speed.”