Radio Tests.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1923, Page 4

Radio Tests.

AMATEHHS IN A USTIIALJ A. SYDNEY., Feb. 22. Wireless amateurs in Australia are linking lor the iustiillatiun of “hroadeiistiug,’’ promised liy the Amalgamated Wireless Compain early tins ye: '. An amateur experimenter at Slraihfiebl. a suburh of Sydney, lias been p;i: ing concerts with gramophone mu-ic sent out on the eri'er on Sumlai rig is. He uses low power, but has been he-ird up country over -!(M) miles by those woo have valve receivers. The i ossess ,rs of the simple crystal sets, however. want higher power transmission, which the Amalgamated Wireless will employ. Some of Sydney’s big drapery stores Lave installed receivers, and one lias ! •ommeneed a service ot operatic concur.-; hv noted singers in the after- < moils and Friday nights, when the 1 diops are open late, the singing being i seat'd in the show rooms where the ! nagnavox amplifiers are installed. 1 YhTle the trials were being made the 1

firm received intimations from radio enthusiasts at various places that they had enjoyed the music, some at Moss Vale and Katoomba, country places 50 miles or so away, being successful in hearing it. Wireless is likely to boom in New South Wales. About Sydney many radio clubs have been formed, the juniors with a mechanical turn of mind taking it up with great interest. A number of shops are open selling the material for making the apparatus, one being run by a lady. Amateurs are keenly interested in the trans-Pacific (amateur) test to be transmitted from Long Beach, California, to Australia, commencing on May iltli. The proposed test is for such mediums as are in common use amongst amateurs, it being theorised bv some of the leading authorities in lav research that the ordinary lowwave equipment will carry as tar as the great high-powered accoutrements installed hy the various Governments at considerable cost. The test will he the tirst. low-wave test in wireless history for such a distance (over 8000 miles).