AMAZING WIRELESS EXPERIMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 14 December 1925, Page 9

AMAZING WIRELESS EXPERIMENTS.

Rugby Calls up Seven Seas.

SUCCESS OF INITIAL TRIALS. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received December 13, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 12. Amazing success has attended tim official tests, of Rugby’s huge wireless station, operating on wave lengths of 18,200 metres. The first trial was in broad daylight oil Thursday, with most gratifying results. America advised Rugby that the signals came through extremely well, and were easily ten times stronger than Leafield, which up to now had been Britain’s best station. A report from South Africa said that Rugby was easily the most distinct station in Europe. Since Thursday, test signals have ranged over the whole twenty-four hours, and the officials were delighted to learn' that to-day’s pre-dawn signals were picked up with amazing clarity by Australia and New Zealand.. The success is all the more surprising, because only six of twelve masts, and only half the bewildering array of three miles of aerials is .in use. The remainder of the aerials will presently be devoted to two-way' telephony tests with America), by which it is hoped a London .subscriber will soon be able to call up a nuniber in New York; Meanwhile, it is thought that there is no limit to Rugby’s possibilities of swift/ accurate wireless transmission all over the world. It is revealed that the secret of the success is the creation of a master oscillator, produced by the British Post Office Research Department, by which the wave length keeps its own path and overcomes atmospherics, which is especially" important to Australian and New Zealand traffic. It is considered that this will permit ships to keep in constant touch with Rugby from any port in Australia or New Zealand, also continuously en route. Sir 'Robert Donald states that the range testing stage has been reached by the Rugby wireless station, which early in the New Year will be sending messages, which will reach evci-y ship in the Seven' Seas, and the remotest corner of every Dominion. They will also within a few weeks bo experimenting with America in two-way telephony.