Wireless Wanderings

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 24, 27 December 1929, Page 8

Wireless Wanderings

HE Swedish broadcasting service, controlled by the State Telephone and Telegraph Department, shows a re- * eord expansion. At. the end of 1928 Sweden had 31 broadcasting stations, the most important of which is at Motala. The number of licensed listeners now registered exceeds 400,000, corresponding to 66 receiving sets per 1000 inhabitants. The Department has 19 radio telegraph stations, of which the powerful transmitters in Karlsborg, in Central Sweden, and Varberg, on the west coast, handle the foreign traffic, the Varberg station being specially built for communciation with America, GTEADY progress is being made in England with experiments in facsimile telegraphy which were commenced a short time ago in view of the interest that was being evinced, particularly by business men, in its future possibilities. There are already four or five facsimile telegraphy services in use between important} cities in England, but perhaps the most highly developed system in use‘ is that used in America. A picture can be taken, for example, to a post office in New York and sent to Chicago or any other town within a very short time. 4