WIRELESS TELEPHONY

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 29

WIRELESS TELEPHONY

SYDNEY-LONDON SERVICE

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 28th November. In a few months probably wireless telephony between Sydney ana London will become operative on a commercial scale. It then will be as simple for a man in Sydney to talk to someone at the heart of the Empire as it is now to engage in a telephonic conversation in the city. People have heard quite a lot about wars that are going to make the world a better place for democracy, but they are a little sceptical after the last war, with its legacy of broken humanity and of tragedy and tears. With this radio telephonic war, however, on other means of communication, there is an absolute guarantee of better things. Time and space, and not human beings, are being annihilated. On the Sydney front, in the radio war for supremacy of world communication, and at the head of a little army of cold, logical, exacting engineers developing their plans, is a quietlyspoken, unobtrusive man quite unknown to 99 per cent, of the public. It is Mr. E. T. Fisk, managing director of Amalgamated Wireless. One very rarely sees his picture in the papers, and only at very rare intervals does he make a speech. If was this wizard of wireless who, as one of the big men behind the Beam service, dropped a bombshell into the cable companies' trenches in the cable-wireless battle for mastery of communications. Except for slight adjustments of plant, it_ would bo possible to get into touch with London by radio telephony almost immediately. The necessary equipment at Pennant Hills, a few miles beyond Sydney, is actually more powerful than that which will be used in England for the transmission • of the spoken word to Sydney.