BEAM WIRELESS

Otago Witness, Issue 3803, 1 February 1927, Page 29

BEAM WIRELESS

THE AUSTRALIAN TESTS. - ’ LONDON, January 25. ' *> Alarconis officially announce that the tests have demonstrated that the Anglo- »■ Australian beam is capable of working at high speed each way for more hours than the terms of the Post Office’s contract require, but defects have developed on some of the auxiliary apparatus. The company has informed the Post Office that it requires further time to correct these defects. For this reason it is not r asking the Post Office to accept the station until the defects' are remedied. LONDON, January 2(5. "While Alarconis are most reticent as to the reason for the Australian beam sys- . tem failure to satisfy the contract conditions, it is learned that the trouble is due principally to the land lines at both ends, and also to defective receiving apparatus, which is unable to keep pace with the rapid transmission. Alarconis states that both the Australian and the English stations are being completely overhauled. It is further learned from the most reliable quarter that it will probably be three months before the beam will be working. At present there is no indication of the date of the tests being resumed, but the Post Office research workers have unshaken faith that a commercial service will ultimately be achieved. THE AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. LONDON, January 27. Alarconis state that they do not endorse the experts’ prophecy that it will be three months before Australia’s beam service is working commercially, but. they prefer not to state the approximate time when the tests will be resumed. GREAT POSSIBILITIES. LONDON, January 28. Mr Afarconi, speaking at a luncheon at the Foreign Press Association, revealed that the Anglo-Canadian beam service was being simultaneously utilised for tele- -* graphy and telephony. Air G. A. Mathieu, one of Marconi’s experts, had successfully conversed with Canadians without interference or disturbance in cither the' telegraphic or telephonic communications, and therefore Mr Marconi believed that it would soon be possible to establish both telephonic and telegraphic services in all countries served by the beam. * ■ Mr Alarconi added that the defects inthe auxiliary apparatus which were caus-~* ing difficulties in the Australian tests were being remedied by the Australian Company. He believed that the tests were carried out before the system had been tuned up. Neither Marconis nor the Australian Company doubted the early and complete success of the Anglo-Australian beam transmission. He expressed the opinion that television would shortly be pratical.