FAST WORK

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 14, 21 October 1927, Page 12

FAST WORK

THI RAPIDITY OF RADIO, Radio communication, says ‘‘Nature,’"’ is proving of great yalue to isolated communities on various patts of the earth’s surface. L’or example, the lonely Tfarsan Islands in the Red Sea, which are about 400 miles north of Aden and the same distance south-east of Port Sudan, are beiug examined for oil by the Red Sea Petroleum Company. ‘The prospectors are equipped with an ordinary Marconi ship’s transmitter, Through the neighbouring ports, or through any of the large number of ships within radio range passing up and down the Red Sea, they can easily link up with main telegraph circnits, and also secure, if necessary, medical advice and other assistance, The new short-wave beam stations enable news to be transmitted to the Dominious much more rapidly than by ordinary radio services. Wast year it took sixty seconds to transmit the name of the winner of the Derby to the Melbourne central telegraph office. This year the name of the wiuner was transmitted in three seconds, and in’ fourteen seconds after the finish of the race ‘the full result was known in all the principal newspaper offices in Australia, This result was equalled on Budget day this year, only a few days after the beam stations had been handed over to the General Post Office. A_thirteenword "empiradio"’ message, giving the first news of the Budget, was transmitted to Australia in thirty seconds,