WIRELESS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18567, 27 November 1923, Page 9

WIRELESS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

SITE FOR STATION DECIDED. Tho site for the high-power wireless transmitting station, which is to be erected as an outcome of the contract between the Government of the Union of South Africa and the Marconi Company, has been selected by the company's engineer. More than ' 2000 acres close to Kliphenvel station in the Malmesbury division of the Cape Province are being acquired for the purpose of erecting an extensive aerial system. The station will be 30 miles from Cape Town. It has been ascertained ■ that the Cape Province possesses the best atmospheric conditions for wireless of any part in the Union, and the site selected is considered sufficiently far from the coast to be immune from attack from the sea. A site has been chosen as far distant as practicable from any mountains *which might exert a screening effect. The stat- ■ ion will be of 750 kilowatts, and will be able to communicate with other stations of the Marconi system in Australia, India, England, South America, the United States, and the Continent of Europe. There will be sixteen masts, 800 ft. high, placed in, the form of a circle 1£ miles in diameter. Beneath them will be an earth screen supported upon 250 towers 40ft. high. The messages will be sent by operators working in an office in Cape Town, which will be connected by land lines with the Klipheuvel station.