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Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 12, 7 October 1927, Page 4

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o-oo FOUR 5000-WATT TRANSMITTERS INCREASHD RELAY SERVICE, It is proposed by 31,0, Melbourne, to proceed immediately with its plans for providing a relaying service for listeners in country districts. Klaborate plans for providing a relaying service were arranged hy 31,0 late last year, but upon the announcement that the Commonwealth Wireless Commission would be appointed they were held in abeyance. Mr. Conder, general manager of 3L0, stated recently that, following the commission’s recommendation that no obstruction slonld be placed in the way of persons desiring to provide relaying stations in the country, 3L0 would apply immediatcly ‘for four licenses to erect relaying stations. One of these stations would be built in the Gippsland district, probably at Maffra, to provide a service in areas where 38LO’s signals are now subject to fading. Another would be situated at Wangaratta or Benalla to serve the North-East. The third would probably be erected at or near Bendigo, and the fourth would be built on a site to be selected in the Western district, probably near Iamilton. First Station for Bendigo, The plans for these stations had already been prepared, Mr, Condor remarked, and he believed that it wonld be possible to have work on the first of the stations well advanced in two or three months. The first station to be opened would be that at Bendigo, where the pepulation to be served is greater than in any other part of the State, ‘The stations will each be as large as 8LO, having an effective power of 5000 watts. ‘This is nearly ten times as great as the power used by the relaying stations of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Mr, Conder said that 38L,0’s technical advisers agreed with the commission that it was undesirable to attempt to serve country districts by increasing the power of the main central stations, and for this reason they had always recommended the establishment of relaying services,