Linking Up by Radio

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 50, 27 June 1930, Page 25

Linking Up by Radio

"THROUGH the establishment of trans-oceanic telephone communication, it is now possible for a telephone subscriber in one of the countries so connected to talk to 20 different nations. ‘These possess a total population of approximately 400,000,000 and contain 85 per cent. of the world’s telephones. The countries linked together include the majority of European nations, Great Britain, Spanish Morocco in Africa, Cuba, Mexico and, in the near future, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Three short-wave radio circuits are employed in telephone-radio communication between the United States and Hurope, and an average of about 50 ealls a day go across the Atlantic, of which nearly half are social conversations. One-half the trans-Atlantic calls are made to Wngland alone. The radio transmitters for the shortwave systems are located at Lawrenceville, New York, and reflectors are used to concentrate the energy over the great circle route to the distant Huropean receiving station, so that comparatively weak transmitters may be employed. The receiving station for short-wave circuits is at Netcong, New York, and it also utilises a reflector system to improve _ signal strength. It seems apparent that within a few years’ time every telephone subscriber will be able to communicate directly with any other in the whole world.