Beam Wireless

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 54, 25 July 1930, Page 27

Beam Wireless

Growth Recorded

FACTS, they say, speak for themselves, a sentiment which will be echoed by every person who peruses a copy of "Wireless Communication," a recent publication dealing with the network of world wireless communications established by Amalgamated Wireless Australasia, Ltd. A few years ago the only Australian wireless services available to the publie were the marine services to and from ships and the island. services between Australia and Papua, and Australia and New Guinea. To-day, step into the beam office at Sydney or Melbourne, or enter any post office in the Commonwealth, and you may send a message via beam to some of the remote places of the world-to Esthonia or Greenland in Burope, Yukon or Alaska in North America, to San Jose De Guatamala in Central America, or to Cali Cirardot in the South America Republic of Columbiato name but a few of the traffic destinations. " From the privacy of your business office or from your home, you may telephone to all parts of the United Kingdom and to no less than fourteen countries in Durope. The booklet under review fully describes the radiophone service between Australia and Europe as well as the beam wireless services between Australia and Great Britain, and the Continent of Burope and North and South America; the A.W.A. coastal radio service, the marine wireless services for the transfer of messages between ships at sea and the Australian coastal stations, and between one ship and another ship. Particulars of the extensive and strategic chain of wireless stations in the Pacific, established and operated by A.W.A., brings home to one the realisation of the highly important work that is being accomplished in advancing the interests of British communications in the south western Pacific. With its controlling centres at Rabaul, Port Moresby and Suva, and a chain of wireless stations on the smaller islands, A.W.A. have established a retwork of wireless communications that is highly creditable and useful.