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Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 51, 5 July 1929, Page 32

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THE. Radio Wien short-wave trans--"mitter recently carried ouf satisfactory preliminary tests, -and will shortly be brought into. nightly operation. with the relay of the ordinary Vienna broadcast programmes. Details of the official times.of trans ot wavelength, and power will b& able within the next few days. pun air mail liners on the new route from Croydon to India are in wireless communication with the ground throughout the entire journey. The usual. wireless organisation is used-on the London-Basle section, this comprising the stations at Croydon, Le Bourget, and the Marconi station at Basle. -R.A.F. stations form links in the chain after Alexandria. From ‘Basta to Karachi ‘the machines can communicate with the Marconi stations at Chabar.and Bunda Abbas, in Persia, while in the concluding stages they are in continuous touch with the powerful station at Karachi. THE taxing of valves has often been suggested, not only in France, bu in other countries, but it has. usuall} not been found to be a very practical scheme, owing particularly to the fact that the design of receivers is continually changing, with the consequence that a valve tax. which at one time seems to be equitable may within a very short period become unfair either to the Government or to the listener. A great deal of time has been wasted in regard to broadcasting in France, and the large and increasing body of French listeners now hope that a regular basis will soon be reached and that important advantages to them will result.