New Broadcast
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At Townsville With Pacific Radius
A NEW broadcasting station, which will serve many of the Pacific Islands, was opened at Towns ville by Amalgamated Wireless (A/sia.) Ltd., on October 5.
The radius of the new station, which is known as 4TO, Townsville, will embrace Thursday Island, Papua, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides and New Caledonia, and it is quite possible that it will be picked up in Fiji and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
The inaugural programme was a very successful one. Mr. E. T. Fisk, managing director of the A.W.A., gave a short address from Sydney, by tele phone, his words being broadcast over the air.
During the evening, congratulatory telegrams were received from listen ers at Thursday Island, Flinders Is land, Madang (New Guinea), Sam arai (Papua) and other places.
Station 4TO is of the very latest type, having been designed and manu factured by Amalgamated Wireless, in accordance with the most modern principles. It operates on a wave length of 256.4 metres (1170 kilo cycles) and has a power of 200 watts in the aerial.