BEAM WIRELESS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 June 1925, Page 3

BEAM WIRELESS

THE PROPOSED STATION NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION TIG CLAIMS MADE Urea!, claims have been made for Lira in wireless, the. latest- invention of the v ward, Marconi. An idea of the important movements that are now in hand for the establishment of stations m different, parts of the Empire, and wlmt is expected from the service when it 's under wav. was furnished io an Jucklnml Star representative this morning hy Mr E. T. Lis!;, managing; dim - tor of Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd., of Australia, who, with Mr Mi,son Allard, the chairman of directors of the com pit. ny. arrived in Auckland by IHe Niagara. the two gentlemen are eu route to New York. Montreal and London in connection with the bengj services. 1 liese services are going to run be-twe'-ii Australia, England and Canada, said Mr Fisk. and direct, high s'.ired wireless services will ho established he iiwecu Australia, India, South Africa. ;ml Canada. Team stat ions to connect with England are now actually mulct const netioii. The Australian stations arc being built, near Melbourne. There will be one transmitting group and one receiving. Hie former to he about 50. mill the latter about 15 miles, from the city-. They will be operated front the hi tut of Melbourne by automatic apparatus. tiii' 1 till ilie oilier capital cities will have wireless figure-stations to ! work the tr.illie of each State into and out of the main overseas services. SPEEDY OPERATION, For i Multiple, if a person in Sydney wants to send a message to London, lie minds it- in at, the Sydney oflice. If is litre sent by ’virjpss to the mam beam station, and .from there is automatically re-transmitted direct- to London, tiio whole operation < ceupymg a few minutes. The stations will be able to work at. high speed 24 hours a day, and will 1).. abie to handle four messages at tho same time —for instance, one from England, one from Canada, one to England and one to Canada. The secret of the beam is that it concentrates all its energy in the one direction. .instead of sending it out in all directions. It is so efficient that the power is reduced to about 25 kilowatts, but it hits the same effect as it- station villi 1500 kilowatts. Mr Fisk luts been experimenting with it for the past 18 months, and has found everything verysatisfactory. He is sure that A vi'l prove a- success from a commercial str.i dpoint. lie could say nothing definite regarding the question whether New Zealand would bo incorporated in the new scheme. The Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd., has a capital of £1,000,000. The Government” of Australia holds 500,001 shares, and the rest are in .the hands of shareholders in England, Australia, and New Zcala nd. BROADCAST!NG STATIONS Rcgi-ieing broadcasting stations, in Australia, Mr Fisk said that there arc six operating broadcasting stations, and tin re more are contemplated. Of the pi (-sent six', tlir?e are 5-kilowatt, Maidens, and two more of this power are under construction- Iho power of the well-1:j own .Sydney station, 2 F.C., is going to be still further increased m a few months’ time.