WORLD BROADCAST

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18552, 26 April 1930, Page 14 (Supplement)

WORLD BROADCAST

SUCCESS OF MARCONI BEAM SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMISSION The speeches of the King and the principal national delegates at the opening of the Five Powers Naval Conference in London on January 21 were heard by wireless listeners practically throughout the civilised world. A newrecord in simultaneous world broadcasting was established, and in this feat the Marconi Company played a prominent part in several ways. Long-wave and short-wave omnidirectional stations and the Marconi short-wave stations at Dorchester and Bodmin were used in Britain to broadcast the speeches to all parts of the world for relaying from more than 200 oversea stations. The high-power longwave station SXX, at Daventry, supplied by the Marconi Company to the British Broadcasting Corporation, was picked up by many Continental stations. Further afield, the programme transmitted by the experimental shortwave broadcasting station SSW at the Marconi Works, Chelmsford, was well received and rebroadcast. Of this station a British wireless journal, stated:—“The honours go to SSW. Several stations on the Continent which had arranged to take the broadcast by land line chose the less expensive but equally efficient method of tuning in Chelmsford. Among the stations which preferred this method were Turin, Naples, Stockholm and Vienna, the last two starting with landline, but resorting to SSW because the transmission was better.” Listeners in more distant countries also heard the broadcast from SSW, and excellent reception reports of this station have been received from short-wave listeners as far afield as South Africa, India and Australia.

As in the cast of previous international broadcasts from Great Britain—such as the broadcast of the Thanksgiving Service for the King at Westminster Abbey in July last—Canadian listeners were well served by the Marconi Beam station at Bodmin, which provided a highly efficient transAtlantic “link.” The signals were strongly received by the Canadian Marconi Company's Beam receiving station at Yamachiche and very successfully rebroadcast throughout the Dominion by a chain of 25 rtations. The excellence of the Marconi-Mathieu Multiplex system for telephony by Beam over the greatest distances was further proved by the reception in Japan of the programme specially transmitted to that country by the Multiplex equipment installed at the Marconi Beam station at Dorchester and rebroadcast throughout Japan by the Japanese Broadcasting Company. The programme was also received by Beam in Australia, the Canadian Marconi Company relaying the signals received by trans-Atlantic Beam over the Monteral-Melbourne circuit