BRITAIN LEADS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 3, 5 August 1927, Unnumbered Page

BRITAIN LEADS

WORLD'S STRONGEST RADIO STATION

A series of tests conducted jointly by the U.S.A. Government Burean of Standards and the American section of the International Union of Scientific RadioTelegraphy to determine the strength of signals from commercial radio-telegraph stations sliows that the one at Rugby, England, is the most powerful in the world, according to laboratory records. The tests were conducted during the months of September and October, 1926, and the stations tested, rated according to their signal strength, are as follow :- Rugby, Bordeaux, Ste. Assise, Nauen, Monte Grande, and Rio de Janeiro. The weakness of the signals from the famous German station at Nauen, ‘of which so much was heard during the World War, was a surprise to the compilers of the report. The French station at Bordeaux, once regarded as unapproachable for. the streneth of its signals, is revealed ss sending far weaker signals than Rugby, which was completed last summer,