New Plant for ZLW

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 49, 21 June 1929, Page 8

New Plant for ZLW

Engineer to Visit Australia A MODERN short-wave _ transmitting and receiving plant has been ordered for the Tinakori Hill Morse Station, ZLW, at a cost of £6000. This is much in advance of the spark transmitters now used in other Government

stations. The plant will be supplied by Amalgamated Wireless Ltd. The transmitter will be used primarily for communicating with the Pacific (Samoa, Rarotonga, and Tonga), but it will afford an emergency means of communication with Australia and with the United Kingdom during certain hours of the day. The plant will be assembled in Sydney at the end of this: month, and will be submitted to extensive efficiency tests before dispatch to the Dominion. Mr. J. R. Smith, engineer of the P. and T. Department’s laboratory, will proceed to Sydney for the _ testing operations, and he will supervise the installation of plant at Wellington. Mr. Smith, while in Australia, will also investigate many radio developments in the Commonwealth in recent times, such as long-distance short-wave telephony, picture transmission, modifications in the beam system working to Canada and the United Kingdom, broadcasting technique, and extensions of the Commonwealth Post and Telegraph laboratory at Melbourne. In connection with these and other technical problems which are common to Australia and New Zealand, and upon which considerable correspondence has passed, the Hon. J. B. Donald says it will be of great value to the Dominion to have one of its higher engineering officers visiting Australia to collaborate with Commonwealth postal engineers.