AUSTRALIA AND TELEVISION

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 37, 22 March 1935, Page 9

AUSTRALIA AND TELEVISION

HE research department of the Post-master-General’s Department has been engaged in Melbourne for some months in intensive experimental work in short-wave wireless transmission. using wave-lengths of between five and seven metres. For technical reasons it is necessary to use wave-lengths of about that length for television. transmission. The experiments have yielded much information which will be of great yalue in any.review of the possihytity of establishing television services if Australia.

The British Broadcasting Corporation is to be entrusted with the inauguration of a regular public television service in London this year. There have been , informal departmental discussions about the institution of television services in Australia, but the matter has not been discussed by the Federal Cabinet. The official view is that the time is not opportune for such a service in. Australia, and a preliminary review has disclosed that .several problems would be encountered. , One of the first practical results of the ultra-short wave wireless experiments in Melbourne has been the production of a remarkable new portable wireless’ telephone transmitter, which is heing employed for outside trans-

missions from the broadcasting statious. Working on a wave-length of about five metres, the transmitter enables an announcer to give descriptions from ships or moving vehicles te which it would be impossible to provide telephone line connections, od