BEAM WIRELESS.
PROGRAMME COMPLETE. LINKING THE EMPIRE. RUGBY, Sent. 7. The beam wireless service between Britain and India ie working to-day, having been opened at midnight. Thus the programme authorised in 1923 for linking the Empire by wireless ia now complete, as beam _ communication with Canada, Australia and South Africa is already working satisfactorily. All these four transmissions are operated from the central telegraph offioe, London, from where messages are sent on a land line to the acutal beam transmitter situated in different parts of the country.. Testa have shown in regard to the Indian service that the beam stations can, without difficulty, exceed the capacity required in the contract, which stipulates for 100 words a minute both ways for 12 hours out of 24. Actually the service has worked consistently at 160 words a minute both ways for 18 hours out of 24, and the speed of the service is really governed at present by, the land line instruments in the central office. The services opened this morning with an exchange of congratulatory greetings.—British official wireless, OFFICIAL AUTHORITY. PROGRAMME TO BE BROADCAST. LONDON, Sept. 6. The Postmaster-General has authorised Mr Gerald Marcuse to broadcast an Empire programme.—Sydney Sun cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 241, 8 September 1927, Page 7
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