EMPIRE RADIO SERVICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 131, 24 August 1927, Page 9

EMPIRE RADIO SERVICE

AMATEUR’S ADVICE BRITISH OFFICIAL POLICY fly Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Monday. The British Broadcasting Corporation allowed the wireless amateur, Mr. G. Marcuse, who proposes to transmit programmes to the Dominions, lo broadcast a speech for 10 minutes. He explained to listeners-in his experiments in broadcasting, and advised listeners in the Dominions not to equip themselves specially with a short-vrave reception apparatus, as Ms broadcasting will be purely for experimental purposes. REPLY TO CRITICISMS The corporation has replied through Mr. Eckersley to the criticisms of the editor of the “Wireless World,” Mr. Hugh Pocock. He denies that the Broadcasting Corporation had intervened to prevent others from establishing an Imperial broadcasting. While the iransmlssion problem was practically solved the requisite conditions for reception had not been fulfilled. Definite and impartial reports regarding the reception of the Dutch, •Vmerhan and British experiments <bowed nothing on which an engineer could base an elementary guarantee. The corporation, said Mr. Eckers ley, was not waiting for perfection; cut broadcasting was not attempted until there were reasonable guarant’s«a of reception. EMPIRE-WIDE SERVICE ‘We believe the time to be close we shall be able to address , ,000,000 British subjects all over ~ world by word of mouth,” said Mr. Eckersley. But it would be of little advantage ? *“* Empire if the transmission e J e incapable of a general and ~factory reception, th T ° e ear Dest possible fulfilment of We conditions is one of the paraobjects of the policy of the vrporation, so as to enable the broadcasting systems to be of th up f ? r tfle benefit in general “ e Public of the Empire, rather m ® sporadic technical entertain‘or comparativelv few wireless amateurs.”— A. and N.Z.-Times.