IMPERTAL WIRELESS.
S. AFRICA AND THE BEAM.
TRIALS OF NEW SYSTEM.
A. and N.Z. CAPETOWN. July 25. It is expected that a Ministerial announcement will shortly be* made to the effect that the Government has decided to temporarily suspend the erection of a super-power wireless station at Klipheuvel, in order to give the Wireless company of South Africa an opportunity of demonstrating the effectiveness of th 6 new directional beam uyst-em. If the trials are satisfactory, tho building of the station now in course of erection, which was to have been the largest in the world, with 750 kilowatts, will be wholly or partly suspended. Instead a 25-kilo-watt station will be substituted, which, it is claimed, will work at higher speed and give greater secrecy. V ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18772, 28 July 1924, Page 7
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