Trans-Atlantic Radio

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 34, 7 March 1930, Page 6

Trans-Atlantic Radio

'ALKING across the Atlantic through radiophone contact established on ordinary house or office ’phone has ‘assumed an imposing position in the business an d social life of both the Old and the New Worlds. During the past year the number of calls made has increased by no less than 300 per cent. At Lawrenceville, New York, American engineers have been busily engaged for the past year in erecting a short-wave radio transmitting station for international communication. Twenty-six towers 180 feet high and arranged in the form of the letter L, have been erected extending for more than a mile, These towers support twelve radio telephone aerials, all of which will be in operation shortly as a part of a short-wave transmitting system that will provide important links in the chain of overseas telephony to Burope and South America.