Short-Wave Stations for Rapid Transmission to All Parts of the Empire London, Oct. 20.
Short-wave "beam" wireless. stations, designed for communicat between Great Britain and the Dominions and India. the first of which, as already reported, opens on Monday for communication. with Canada, will operate on a wavelength of 26 metres.
The design enables energy to be Jconcentrated so efficiently slong the path of the beam that the transmitting stations require much less powcgpthan is customarily the ease ind are, consequently, much: cheaper operate, The rate of transmission has exceeded in tests over twenty letters per second, thus enabling an enormous volume of words to be sent in few hours, Transmissions from the stations will be operated direct from the G. P. 0, in London,
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