EMPIRE WIRELESS
PROGRAMME COMPLETE INDIA SERVICE OPENS (British Official Wireless . — Copyright) RUGBY, Monday. The beam wireless service between Britain and India is working to-day, having been opened at, midnight. Thus the programme authorised in 1923 for linking the Kmpire by wireless Is now complete as beam communication witb Canada, Australia and South Africa is already working satisfactorily. All these four transmissions are operated from the Central Telegraph Oflice, London, from where messages are sent on a land line to r.he actual beam transmitters, situated in different parts of the country. Tests have shown, in regard to the Indian service, that the beam stations can without difficulty exceed the capacity required in the contract, which stipulates for 100 words a minute both ways for 12 hours out of the 24. Actually, the service has worked consistently at 150 words a minute both ways for 18 hours out of the 24, and the speed of the service is really governed at present by landline instruments In the central offices.
The service was opened this morning with an exchange of congratulatory greetings. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 15
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182EMPIRE WIRELESS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 15
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