DEVELOPMENT OF WIRELESS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19144, 29 October 1927, Page 15

DEVELOPMENT OF WIRELESS.

PROBLEMS TO BE PACED. BIG BRITISH BEAM STATION PROPOSED. (BI CABLB— PRJSS ASSOCIATION— COPTEIGHT). (.AUSTRALIAN ASD N.Z AND 6CN CABU.) (Received October 28th, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, October 27. The most serious problem confronting wireless is the ether's lack of sufficient channels for all services, says Captain Peter Eckersley, Chief Engineer to the British Broadcasting Corporation, who has returned from the Washington wireless conference. Broadcasting, he said, was best between the bands 200 to 600 metres and 1000 to 2000 metres. Everyone wanted those wave-lengths, but Britain was not surrendering Daventry, as stations using long and medium waves in conjunction were the most valuable for rural populations.

British and American short-wave experiments were continuing with the opening of the Chelmsford double aerial station with a wave-length of 24 metres within a fortnight. If the American experiment worked, which was a big assumption, he foresaw the establishment of an enormous stattion in the middle of England, from which a beam could be directed to the Dominions, where it would be received by spaced aerials. The Corporation was not rebroadeasting American items until transmission improved.

RADIO CONFERENCE. (AUSTRALIAN AJCD H.S. CABLB ASSOCIATION.) (Received October 28th, 8.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 27. The Mobile Service Sub-Committee of the Radio Conference has decided that spark radio sets should be eliminated from shipboard usage by 1940 on the ground that messages sent out bysuch sets could not be kept within the bands destined to be allotted to a particular service by the present conference. ' The problem of distribution of the voting power of the conference is still unsettled. The American proposal favours one vote, "each independent governing nation having power to initiate, negotiate, or ratify an international treaty." This would give a vote to Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, but not India or the Philippines. Britain suggested that the votes should be distributed by "administrations," making it possible for the British Empire to have 60 votes. AMERICA'S BEST CUSTOMERS. (AUSTRALIA* AN» N.Z. CABLB ASSOCIATION.)

(Received October 28th, 10.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 27.

The Department of Commerce announces that Australia and New Zealand are America's two outstanding customers for radio apparatus. Australia has increased its radio purchases from 310,000 dollars in 1923 to 1,304,000 dollars in 1026, and 789,000 dollars for the first half of 1927. New Zealand has increased her purchases from 83,426 dollars in 1923 to 627,000 dollars in 1926, and 297,000 dollars, for the first half of 1927.