WIRELESS COULD LINK UP EMPIRE

Shannon News, 11 January 1927, Page 3

WIRELESS COULD LINK UP EMPIRE

RELAY STATIONS FOR BROADCASTING NEWS. LONDON, Nov. 19. Tlie Imperial Conference has discussed the problems of Imperial wireless,' but is.it too late for the Dominion Premiers to consider and discuss Imperial broadcasting’ It is nearly two years since the "Daily, Mail” pointed out that broadcasting was developing so rapidly that the time was not far distant when it would be possible for the Sovereign to speak to every part of his Empire and the extraordinary success of last week's relay across the Atlantic made it clear that this day was drawing ever nearer. In February last Major Gladstone Murray, of the outlined a scheme by which the heart of the Empire might be linked Avitli the outlying members. Though little notice was taken of it in this country, it excited intense interest in the Dominions, while the newspapers in the United States denounced the , scheme as a proof of British aggression and a menace.

The possibilities have now become so immense that it is well worth the consideration \of the Imperial Conference beforb it breaks up fo r another three years.

Major Gladstone Murray told a ••Daily Mail” reporter yesterday that the modern methods of dealing with tne trouble of clashing atmospherics were efficient enough to guarantee that reception in Singapore would not be much Avorse than reception in Winnipeg. A series of wireless links in which Daventry would transmit signals to a modern receiving station, and then be retransmitted by another Daventry, wa s the most hopeful scheme he could visualise at the moment.

The tsvgineeri i•; troubles, he sad were great, but the wireless engineers he had consulted thought that there was a good deal of hope for success it experiments were made with short waves, which were far fte-er from atmospherics and fading. Glasgow the other day took its programme direct from Daventry instead of using the Post Office land lines ,and this on a small scale illustrated what could be done. Another member of the 8.8. C. urged the merits of an alternative scheme by which a special low-wave transmitting station could be erected ir. this country for the benefit of overseas listeners, for wliat voluntary subscribers in the Dominions would pay. The service would then be retransmitted in other areas. He thought the scheme could be started or a capital of about £2OOO.