PHI Now on the Air

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 5, 16 August 1929, Page 30

PHI Now on the Air

World’s Largest Short-Wave Station ms

HORT-wave set owners all over the world haye reported excellent reception of signals from PHI, the new short-wave broadcasting station, owned and operated by Philips Radio, at Huizen, Holland. PHI is now .the largest station of its kind in the world, and although essentially a short-wave station, it is built to the design of a typical longwave station, and embodies all- the

CLP HERL LITO PULLE ELROD most simplified and centralised methods of operation. Picture-goers will remember a sensSational movie which was released some time ago, depicting the city of Metropolis in the 21st century. In —

the picture, the city was eontrolied by’ one man, who, seated at a huge desk, had at his finger-tips the buttons, switches, dials, ete, with which he eould control all heating, lighting, time and power in the city. The resemblance of this fancied man of the future and his apparatus to the accompanying photograph of the controller of PHI is remarkable, as not only is the apparatus similar, but.

PUA SE RS a BU TUITE at PHI the entire station is controlled by one man. : Transmitting on a wavelength of 16.88 metres, PHI can work with a high frequency energy of 40 kilowatts, or when necessary 60 kilowatts. +t; ...= sao