A REARRANGEMENT

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 5, 11 August 1933, Unnumbered Page

A REARRANGEMENT

Conference Discusses Wavelengths HE International Conference of European Radio Services opened at Lucerne on May 15. M. Muri, head of the Swiss delegation, was elected president of the conference; M. Keller, head of the radio department of ihe Swiss Post Office, vice-president. The conference is more important than the Prague conference, which it supersedes; the Prague conference had the authority of administrations only, attempted merely to apportion satisfactory wavelengths to existing stations, and the agreements arrived at were not adhered to. The Lucerne Conference, on the other hand, is backed by the Government of each participating State; all agreements will be in the form of solemn Government undertakings, binding all parties for five years, until the next conference; and each country has been asked to declare its maximum requirements in waves, stations, and power. With these declaraticns as a basis, it is expected there will be a complete rearrangement of European wavelengtl's. No station will be permitted to change its power or its wavelength witheut from three to six months’ notice, and the approval of all con-: cerned. The conference has five committees: the first, under Mr. Phillips, head of

> iontenenneenaneniediaamhamemenal atinecmeunammmnie Ne the British delegation, consjdered the principles of wavelength distribution: the second, under the head Italiav delegate, discussed which stations shall be placed outside the broadcast band; the third, under the chjef Czech delegate, discussed power-limitation; the fourth, under Herr Giesecke, the chief German delegate, apportioned wavelengths; and. the fifth, under the chief Russian delegate, determined legal issues, The Press was excluded.