EMPIRE RADIO ’PHONE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12651, 11 January 1927, Page 7

EMPIRE RADIO ’PHONE

FIRST SECTION CONNECTED LONDON CONVERSES WITH OTTAWA BEAM SYSTEM USED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 10, 8.45 p.m.) OTTAWA, January 9. The Empire wireless telephone was connected between Ottawa and England to-day over the beam radio system from England to Drummondville in Quebec, to which Ottawa is connected by a land wire. Several conversations were conducted between the two countries, the distance being 8500 miles. These tests, which are not connected with the radio ’phone inaugurated between New York and London, foreshadow the opening up of direct telephone communication to all parts of the Empire. It is a new, distinct, in-ter-Empire project, which it is hoped to carry out through the Marconi beam system.

HEARD VIENNA TALKS ACROSS ATLANTIC

INTERCEPTION EASY,

Published in “Tho Times."

LONDON, January 9. The Vienna corraspondent of “The Times” gives a new instance of the interception of Anglo-American telephoning. The owner of a three-valve set occupying a house in a nosiy street in the centre of the city tuned in and heard every word. He even passed on part of the conversation to a looai newspaper by placing the receiver of his set against the mouthpiece of a telephone connected with tho newspaper office. The Marconi Company, in conjunction with the Austrian Broadcasting Company, is inaugurating an AustroGerman service for the wireless transmission of photographs and bills of exchange. It is expected that the system will shortly be extended to Britain. SECRECY NOT GUARANTEED (Received January 10, 9.5 p.m.) ..LONDON, January 9. The first newspaper advertisement received by trans-Atlantic wireless telephony from New York was published in the “Daily Telegraph,” occupying three columns. Few calls were made to-day. Those using the system found the conditions remarkably suitable, i Reports come from various parts of the country of amateurs overhearing conversations. The Post Office admits it is unable yet to guarantee the same secrecy as with the telephone, hut it denies that an entire conversation can be picked up.