TRANSATLANTIC PROGRAMMES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 37, 30 March 1928, Page 7

TRANSATLANTIC PROGRAMMES

TESTS BY BRITAIN AND U.S.A. Joint experiments to determine the feasibility of international re-broad-casting will be resumed soon ‘with Riverhead, ).1. (U.8.A.), as the western end of the transoceanic link, it was learned recently from Dr. A. N. Goldsmith, chief broadcast engineer of the National Broadcasting Company of U.S.A, "Our experiments so far ‘have shown us that the receiver on this side of the Atlantic must be located in a spot -outside of the city," said Dr. Goldsirtith. "They have also demonstrated that it will be necessary to utilise ‘exactly the right wavelength for the hour of the day on which the broadcast is to be transmitted, and just the right type of receiver and acrial equipment must be used." Dr. Goldsmith said he had just received a radiograin from Captain Peter P. Lickersley, chief engineer of the British Broadcasting Company, saving the British engineers were prepared to go on with the experiments on any wave and with any apparatus that was found to ‘be desirable. The twenty-four-meter wave, Dr. Goldsmith said, which has been tried during the last few weeks of the tests, had tot shown the resnlts which would ‘be necessary to carry on each service effectively,