DIRECT WIRELESS.
BRITAIN AND AUSTRALIA. BIG WORK INVOLVED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, March 30. Mr. Fisk, referring to the wireless agreement providing for direct wireless between Britain and Australia, explained that it would be two years before the centra] feeder stations would be finished in England and Canada. The main station for overseas traffic would be three times as powerful as any European station and would epeak direct over 12,000 miles for the greater part of each day. It would consist of transmitting and receiving stations thirty miles apart, the former covering over a square mile of country with 24 towers, each 800 feet high; the latter comprising 200 feet wireless maste.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1922, Page 5
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112DIRECT WIRELESS. Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1922, Page 5
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