New Australian Stations

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 43, 10 May 1929, Page 31

New Australian Stations

A WRITER in the Sydney "Wireless Weekly" says .regarding the new broadcast stations which are ., be on pe air in Australia in July: "The reports of the tender conditions mention the fact that the power of the stations require’ by the Commonwealth Government is set down as three kilowatts 1d five kilowatts. What strikes the radio fan, of ri special interest, is the fact that the method of rating the stations is different from that usually adopted by the Commonwealth Postal Depurtment. In the regulations. whic are all familiar with. the power is mentioned as the wattage in the ‘high frequency gene rator circuit’; that is the power, stated in watts, inj + plate circuit of the mnain oxcillator, and excluding "modulator power, In these tendérs the power is. to be the watts in the ‘aerial, Th is probably adopted as toilowbry the lead of the Americans: it iv n better systey: to follow anyhow Qe dt yea betles Sodtention ¢" the en eocer'ne Capaeit of th station than the other methol of specifying the plate power of the oscillator. alone." ’