TRANS-ATLANTIC 'PHONE
SUPPLEMENTARY STATION EFFORTS TO BAFFLE INTERCEPTION (Eloc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) {Australian nnd N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 18, 10 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 17. Announcing the erection of a supplementary station at Dundee to ensure greater clarity of trans-Atlantic telephoning, Mr. Purves, Post Office Engi-ncer-in-Chicf, says he never claimed to guarantee secrecy, but special efforts were being made in that direction. Even on the beam system such a wide "track" was required that the signals could easily be read. Regular users of telephony should use code words and phrases, but he hoped to devise a menns of cutting up words into fragments at the transmitting point and piecing them together again at the receiving end, thus baffling interception en route.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16243, 18 January 1927, Page 7
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122TRANS-ATLANTIC 'PHONE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16243, 18 January 1927, Page 7
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