CHANNEL TELEGRAPH.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 413, 23 January 1909, Page 10

CHANNEL TELEGRAPH.

A NEW POST OFFICE WIRELESS . ■ .;. STATION. • A now radio-telegraph station, which has been .erected for the Post, Office, at Bolt Head, Devonshire, was .opened by , the Postmaster-General recently. ""'..''" '":. Bolt _Head is close to the extreme .southern/point of Devonshire, and the site has been;-selected as one specially•-.. convenient for shins passing up or down the English Channel,. The. station .will' be, available for communication with all ships .fitted, with wirejess;;feloMaphy;, whatever; their,,nation.particular system; of! radw-telpferaphy' with-which,'tljey. may beequipped,: .It will ;he.,worked in accordance *ith ( the.'provisions', of. the .International, Radio-telegraphic' Convention,,...which,- was-ratified'-by,the.Governme'n't in : June.last and''dame intq"operatidn'6n July-i.'V"',...' ..',.'. majority, of .the ..liners .which, call.'at ports' .in tlie English, .Channel can' be, com, munjeatcd. with, through'' the',.station, .and,it, •will","'also 'be -.available "if or. ..transmitting to,ah;d..[ at ,oi' ( destined for places abroad," "'!"■"".'.'■,;.' ■..'."■ The .station, which has been erected by'tho. Marconi; Company',],'embodies the latest improvements' in Its rangers. 250 .miles,' but' it. will probably ■'not.', have o'ci. casion to : .exchange ' ■message's"' with . ships beyond 100 mile's. . Should' therp be. any in-' terruptipn in the telegraph cable "'between England and the Channel. Islands, the 1 new station' will' be utilised, for' communication,