BEAM SYSTEM
DANGER IX WAR. STATEAI ENTS AT SEN AT IS ENQUIRY. SYDNEY, ALay 2. Air IS. G. Eeard, chief engineer for United Distributors Co., Ltd., giving evidence yesterday nelore the Senate select committee', which is investigating wireless transmission charges, lic,mired that if another European war occurred beam wireless would bo a danger to Australia. Air Jjeard said that the Germans or any other enemy eoiud erect a plant within 24 hours that would put flic beam plant in England out of commission. Jt would be a month before the beam could be changed. Within three minutes of that change the enemy would again have the plant out of order. This would so continue that it would only be possible to communicate between Britain and Australia for about three minutes in every month. It was unsafe, lie declared, to rely tijxiii beam wireless in time of war. Air Dean! said lie bad wireless experience in the Royal Navy and in the Royal Australian Navy before joining ilm company. A non-beam installation would not cost more than £.jl.’oo. 4bo public in Australia were sufficiently acquainted with (.be advantages of the short, wave system. '1 be beam system, In- saul in conclusion, was already on lie. decline.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1929, Page 8
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