RADIO 'PHONES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18901, 17 January 1927, Page 15

RADIO 'PHONES.

LONDON AND AMERICA. (rROM OUB OWH COBRESPONDENT.) SAN FRANCISCO, December 15. Business men in Canada and the United States calling up London by radio telephone and transacting their business in the near future is predicted by the Commissioner, D. B. Carson, of the U.S. Bureau of Navigation, in his annual reports submitted to the Secretary of Commerce Hoover in Washington. Encouraging results havo been shown by tests, Mr Carson says, although the Commissioner points out that the difference in office hours' time of commercial houses may present some difficulty. Commercial pictoradiogram service, the report declared, is now in operation between New York and London, and San Francisco and Hawaii. Transfer of that part of the personnel of the customs service, engaged under the direction of the Commerce Department in administering part of the navigation laws, from the Treasury Department to the Commerce Department, is recommended. Broadcasting stations in this country on June 30th, 1926, decreased slightly during tho past fiscal year, totalling 528 licensed stations as compared with 571 last year and 535 in 1924, the report said. There has been a material increase in power used. The average power per station in watts is 715.8 as compared with 312.4 last year and 190.5 the year previous. During the past fiscal year, 117 new stations were licensed and ItSO discontinued. On June 30th there were 14,902 active amateur radio stations in the United States. There was a considerable decrease in the number of these stations licensed during the fiscal year as compared with 1925, the figures being, respectively 9037 and 10,074. During the year under review, 3209 amateur stations were discontinued. Practically all amateurs are now using continuous wave transmitters, many of them having crystal control. At the close of the year 1954 vessels were equipped with radio and radio compasses were in use on 230 American ships.