WIRELESS ON TRAINS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19198, 14 June 1924, Page 15

WIRELESS ON TRAINS.

QUEENSLAND EXPERIMENT. LIMITED SUCCESS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, June 5. Some very interesting experiments regarding the installation of wireless on railway trains have been carried out in Queensland. Although so far the results have not been altogether encouraging, there are hopes that methods will bo found for overcoming the obstacles to success. Tho experiments wore carried out on the Commissioner’s inspection car. He arranged for the inspection car attached to the Townsville mail train to bo fitted with a wireless telegraph receiving set only, placed in charge of Air C. Daley, of the Railway Department. The experiment was interesting and instructive. When leaving Brisbane a concert was distinctly heard even when passing through the towns, but it was not loud enough to entertain a carriage full of passengers. At Rockhampton and Alackay, in North Queensland, music from Farmer and Company’s broadcasting station in Sydney was hoard indistinctly, but messages forwarded in the Morse code were easily distinguishable. The noise of the running car militated against lha success of tho experiment, and the operation of tho electric light dynamo was also an obstacle. Telegraph and telephone messages being conveyed on the line? running parallel with tho train were frequently picked up by induction while _ the train was in motion. By a strange coincidence, an officer at one railway station \yas heard telephoning another station that hr had a truck ready to lead an aeroplane for the station called. It was singular that tho reference should have been to a flying machine while an experiment in wireless, the ether big invention of science, was being conducted.