BEAM WIRELESS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17178, 30 October 1926, Page 21

BEAM WIRELESS

MARCONI OPTIMISTIC ALL CLAIMS JUSTIFIED LONDON. October 21. “I anticipate that shortly Imperial Conferences will not- need to meet in London, but wilt lie carried out by wireless from the Prime Ministers’ firesides in the Dominions,” said Senator Marconi after the receipt of a Post Oltice official certificate that the beam stations had passed a seven days’" test, preparatory to the commencement of the Anglo-Canadian service. The certificate stales - that after an allowance, owing to the recent electrical storm, the stations had' satisfactorily fulfilled the conditions, sending and receiving, to and from Canada, 100 words of five letters each per minute daily over an average of eighteen hours. Senator Marconi declared that the beam stations had taken longer to construct than was anticipated, due to research being made simultaneously with the. constructional work. Tests with Canada had enabled speeds of 1250 loiters a. minute simultaneously in each direction over the complete circuit. The stations liadl been worked many hours on end. Counting every hour of the. seven days’ test, the average speed of signalling had been 600 letters a. minute in each direction. “ CLAIMS JUSTIFIED.”

“ This result,” declared! Senator Alarconi, “ abundantly justifies the claims, and indicates that the stations arc capable of handling all the Anglo-Cana-dian traffic likely to he available for some years. The beam’s working speed al present is only circumscribed! by mechanical limitations of the transmitting and 1 recording instruments. It will soon- be possible to increase Hie overall speed- of signalling. The results already shown that beam signals are a hundred-fold stronger than non-dircctional transmitting and receiving. ”

The Senator said that the present was the most appropriate time to discuss the beam question, because of tho Imperial Conference and its obvious effect upon Empire communications. The message from Australia, stating that the beam experiments had failed, was quite untrue. If the facts had been investigated the message would never have been despatched.

The beam would! revolutionise communication. That was a hold statement, but he was confident, and anticipated! that a new type would result in atmospherics ceasing to be the bugbear of wireless, DEFYING THE ELEMENTS. “ Moreover,” continued Senator Alarconi, “ we are using two waves in connection with the beam, and! we employ a new one under exceptional circumstances, such as storm interference, enabling continuous communications during phenomena, like the aurora borealis, which have recently also interrupted telegraphs. I have been working for ten years on, the beam, which I am confident has justified’ my beliefs, not only with Canada, but with India, South Africa and Australia, as well. The beam will bo applicable to telephony, picture transmission and television, eventually enabling the broadcasting or speeches from Australia and America."' Asked when Australia’s beam would be working, Senator Marconi said: “'Within a few months, as soon as the Australian station is ready. I believe it will work the best of all, from theoretical observations. I do not know the exact reason. Perhaps it is because of different atmospheric conditions.

“ Our contract,” he added, “ guarantees a. continuous seven hours’ service to Australia, but 1 expect this will bo greatly exceeded. If the beam does all I anticipate, it will soon he worldwide. I have already submitted' the system to the Admiralty and the AVer Office. Tho beam, by reason of its high speed, enables a great degree of secrecy, because of the difficulty of interception.”