Beam Wireless

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 21, 6 December 1929, Page 3

Beam Wireless

Proof of Value — + HE value of Beam ‘yeiteless in muin~taining communication was strikingly exemplified in the past week’ by the ‘occurrences following on the large seale break in the Atlantic cables by the severe -earthquake experienced near the coast of Newfoundland, This shock had the unexpected result of breaking some 13 cables of the number which stretch across the Atlantic Ocean. Their repair will necessarily take séme time, and will cost upwards of £100,000. Under ordinary conditionzvihe loss of 13 ‘cables would have imped a very severe con,estion tipon the remaining number, and have held up business and private’ communications between ‘America ‘and Europe very considerably. Fortunately- the Beam service was available, and -proved itself fully able to meet ‘all — demands, avoiding any congestion. So satisfactory and rémarkable was ‘thir service that comment was made upor: it in the. British House. of Commons, The British Postmaster-General, in.a subsequent debate on ° broadcasting matters and wireless. comniunication methods, stated that the’ Trans: Atlantie wireless telephone service was steadily progressing. Very shortly it was proposed to introduce another longwave and another short-wave channel of communication, which’ would make alfogether five channels in operation from the Rugby: wireless telephone station. The yolume of business thus being transacted: was. providing. a. very satisfactory revenue, and this would lead to a reconsideration of the fees in the near future, Experiments in the way of telephonic communication between Australia and London have beeu in ‘operation for some time past, and have reached a high degree of éfficiency. The Beam service between Australia and London is also operating at full pressure, and has had a marked effect in reducing the cost of communication between’ the Antipodes and the heart of the Empire The volume of traffic being: secured by the Benm service is remarkable, as is also its service in ‘facilitating communication and permitting more extensize and ready business negotiations hitherto been possible. So fur F\ow Zealand has not benefited by the Beam service, except in a very minor degree. That position is not likely to endure without protest very’ much longer. Complications of course exist in connection with the cable service, but in view of the rapid advances being made in other parts of the world by the Beam service, and their effects in facilitating communication. a demand is likely to spring up before very long for an extension of the facilit’ to New Zealand,