MICRO-WAVE RADIO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 196, 18 July 1935, Page 12

MICRO-WAVE RADIO.

INVESTIGATION BY DOMINION. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, July 17 The relative advantages of cable telephone and radio telephone communication over Cook Strait will be studied by the two New Zealand engineers who are being sent to England, said tlie Director-General of Postal Services (Mr G. McNamara) today Mr McNamara said a new line of communication was needed between the North and South Islands first, because of the volume of business and, secondly, because the. existing cables were getting old. Too much risk of accident was involved in under-sea cable communication, and tire cost of maintenance was high. “I have a feeling,” he said, “that cables have become out of date . for use in particular services such as Cook Strait.” He indicated that the New Zealand engineers would specially investigate the recently-established nine-channel micro-wave wireless communication between Scotland and Northern Ireland. This was entirely new, and obviously the cost would he well below that of a submarine cable system. The conditions over the Irish Sea were, Ire believed much the same as those over Cook Strait.