Commercial Radio

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 16, 1 November 1929, Page 30

Commercial Radio

New Plant at Wellington "THE commercial wireless service conducted by the P, and T. Department is now being modernised. A high speed short-wave Wireless Telegraph Station manufactured by Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Limited to the order of the Department has been erected at. ZLW, the Tinakori Hill .Station. _ This set was inspected and tested in Sydney recently by an, officer of the Department. The results obtained on’ the tests conducted in Sydney were in every way satisfactory, and since the station has been erected in its permanent quarters, the results obtained on th; apparatus have in all respects come up to the expectations of the Department’s office s. It is confidently expected that the new station will materially increase the distance over which it will be possible to communicate With vessels en route to and from New Zealand ports, and in addition this new plant will greatly facilitate the growing radio traffic between New Zealand, Samoa, the Cook Group, and Chatham Islands. The apparatus, which embodies the very latest discoveries in radio technique reflects the greatest credit on the manufacture"s, Messrs. Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Limited, The New Zealand Government have now placed a further order with A.W.A. for a short-wave transmitter for installation at Samoa. The new plant will establish constant radio service with overseas dependencies.