INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 40, 20 April 1928, Page 16

INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTS

ENGLAND AND U.S.A. To demonstrate the ease with which the English programmes are being received in America via short wave relay, Dr. Goldsmith, chief broadcast engineer of the U.S.A. National Broadcasting Co., placed his telephone receiver near the loudspeaker in his laboratory recently, and music broadcast in London at an 6 pm (& p.m. New York time) entertainment was heard over the telephone in ‘Ihe New York Times" office. ‘The station transmitting was BSW, Chelmsford, England, operating on twenty-four metres. "International rebroadcasting between United States and English stations has been resolved to a definite experimental project which has, received official approval and a definite appropriation of funds to carry out the work," said Dr. Goldsmith. ‘‘We will pursue the problems involved until they ere) satisfactorily solved. | "Among the problems ts be studied are antenna design-hoth directional and multiple-suitable receiving sets and fading compensators which will equal- |

ise the output of the sets and place on the land, wires to the point of distribution in New York a constant amount of energy." Special apparatus for the receiving station at Riverhead, JVu.I., is heing completed at the Van Cortlandt Park laboratories of the Radio Corporation of America. The short wave transmiitters in Pittsburg and Schenectady, owned and operated respectively Dy the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company and the General Tilectric Company, will broadcast the United States programimes to British listeners, via short wave receiving station at an eflicient point of interception in the British Isles.