MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1926, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] V/1 RELESS TELEPHONY EXPERIMENT. INTERESTING PARTICULARS. (Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON. March 8. The demoiistratioii ol wireless telephony between London and New Sink is specially interesling because it is precisely filty vears to-dav since Graham Hell applied tor lus first patent, telephone in the l it i tod Stales. Sixty journalists assembled at the General Post Office in London anil a similar number in New York, each couple occupying two minutes at the speaker. They went, into an ordinary telephone box and sat down with an ear piece until the operator said:

"New Mirk on the line.” Conversation was then possible with the greatest oa-c. Though sueh perfect transmission is at present possible only at certain seasons of the year, when atmospherics do not interfere, it should he posible ill a few months for any subscriber in England to he put in ('oininuiiieation with any American. The demonstration brings ordinary commercial communication between America- ami England appreciably nearer.

The aerial used at Rugby was 1 miles long and was supported liv five giant masts, each eight hundred feet high, hut the receiving aerial at Wrniigliton was seven miles long and only thirty feet high. It is in a straight lino during the whole of its run and points toward the American .station at Rooky Point.

The power used was live hundred kilowatts compared with the Duvoutry broadcasting station’s power of fifty kilowatts.