Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-05
RADIO NET LINKS
WORLD IN CHAIN
Experience in Rebroadcasting Lon
don Naval Conference Aids
IL Technicians.
BY MARTIN CoDEL.

All the civilized world will soon be
linked in one vast radio broadcastinR
network Experience gained from re-
broadcasting the London Naval Con-
ference is enabling the technicians to
perfect structure which will make it
possible for all peoples in all countries
to listen simultaneously to momentous
nroadcasts OF an international char
acter.
With short waves, cables and land
lines being extended to connect nearly
every inhabited corner of the earth, the
globes proportions are shrinking so fast
that radio reunions of the family of
nations shortly will become common
place occurrences.
King Georges voice and those Of the
other speakers at the opening of the
London conference were carried to many
other parts OF the world besides the
United States and Canada.
A report just received by the Depart
ment of Commerce announces that
Japan's radio network was highly sue
ceSsful in picking up and rebroadcast-
Ing speech by Reijero WakatSuki, chief
OF the Japanese delegation, when it was
delivered from London last month. This
was one or the series Of international
talks by leaders of the conference which
followed the opening day Of the con-
ference.
The Japanese statesman went before
the microphone in the British Broad
casting Corporations London studios to
speak first to the United States and
then to japan. When he was ready to
address his own people the radio beam
was shifted toward Toxic, on the other
side of the world The voice trans
mission was satisfactory, despite the fact
that the radio waves path had to fol-
low the long, great circle route which
traverseS England, the North Sea, the
Scandinavian Peninsula, part Of the
Arctic Ocean. Siberia, Manchuria and
the Sea of Japan.
Marconi engineers, highly elated over
the success of this performance, are re-
ported to be saying: There is now no
technical obstacle to telephone COM
niunication between any two points on
the earth's surface, however far apart.
Indeed, the United States is still
listening to semi-weekly reports on the
conference from American radio OBJ
servers abroad. Next Sunday the voice
of Ramsay Macdonald. British prime
minister. will be heard on the Columbia
Broadcasting System after being brought
over via the transatlantic radio tele-
phone. American engineers are at work
on plans for a similar overseas tele-
phone system spanning the Pacific TO
Hawaii, the Philippines, Australia and
Japan.
Such radio links also have been or
are being developed between other
countries separated by ocean expanses
Co-ordinated with the wire systems Of
the several countries, they are being
made available both for international
telephone conversations and radio hook
ups.
AS for programs intended for two
way exchanges between individual coun-
tries, these already are commonplace
America has had broadcasts originating
in England, Germany and Holland, and
plans are afoot tor special exchanges
this year with Italy and Russia.
Latin America can listen to American
programs shot out by short waves daily
but adequate facilities are not vet
available to make 1t possible for the
American audience to enjoy the radio
programs Of Latin-American stations.
(Copyrtght, 1880, By North American News
paper Alliance.l