RADIO SERVICES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 176, 15 October 1927, Page 1

RADIO SERVICES

TECHNICAL QUESTIONS INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 9.13 a.m. WASHINGTON, Fri. The creation of a permanent international consulting committee to consider all technical and allied questions in radio services was approved by the technical committee of the Radio Conference, by a vote of 24 to 4, over the opposition of the United States, Canada, India and Roumania. The United States opposition is believed to be based on a fear that the creation of such a committee might prove the initial step toward merging radio telegraph in the international convention, to which the United Statese is not a signatory. British diplomacy triumphed when the special section of the conference which dealt with the Cortina report decided to defer all consideration of the report until the Brussels Conference. The committee decided that the matter could not be legally considered by the conference, and also that the delegates were equally empowered to constitute themselves a section of the International Telegraph Convention. The Australian delegates strongly supported the view that no alterations should be made at present regarding the use of ten-letter code words for international cable and wireless traffic. It seems probable that the matter will remain in abeyance until the Brussels Conference, which is expected to be held in 1930. —A. and N.Z.