Short Waves or Short Memories?

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 31, 12 February 1932, Page 13

Short Waves or Short Memories?

NDED the above heading, the "The Wlectrican," October 30, 1931, publishes the following :-Less than seven months ago several motor-coach loads vf journalists, including representatives of most of the London dailies, listened on the cliffs above St. Margaret’s Bay to a demonstration given by the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation’s Laboratories at Hendon in, co-operation with the laboratories of Le Material Telephonique in Paris, On that occasion each member of the party had the opportunity of exchang~ ing perfectly clear speech with Mr. Ulrich on the French side of the Straits --a distance of nearly 25 miles-the wayelength used being 18 em. Yet om Wednesday most of the London dailies published a Reuter telegram from Santa Marcherita announcing that the Marchese Marconi had on the previous day "created a fresh record when he heid a wireless telephone conversation from Santa Margherita to Sestri Lev-ante--a distance of a little over 10 miles--on waves on only half a metre, tven "The Times" printed this state ment without comment and some of the more sensational journals *‘splashe ed" it, Without in any way desiring to belittle the achievement reported by the Marchese Marconi, we do feel that the London daily Press has radiated with even less than its usual accuracy on this occasion. —