Radio in Hedjaz
Modern Eastern Ruler HE King of Hedjaz and Nejd has recently concluded negotiations with the Mareoni. Company for the erection of fifteen radio stations throughout the joint kingdom. These will link up every important, centre, and four complete transmitting/~ and receiving installations fitted in lorries are.also to be supplied as mobile radio telegraph stations. These will enable the King, Ibn Saud, to keep. in constant touch with his two capitals, Mecca and Riyadh, during his desert journeys. In Mecead and at Riyadh, 400 miles distant, powerful telephone and tele-
graph transmitters and modern receivers will be installed, and the King will be able to talk between his two palaces .by means of special micro- va « phones. = A British engineer will supervise the installation outside Mecca, and _ to provide for maintenance afterward King Ibn Saud has sent four of his subjects: to England for instruction on the technical side of radio,
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Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 27, 16 January 1931, Page 16
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153Radio in Hedjaz Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 27, 16 January 1931, Page 16
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