Lautoka Broadcast
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Station In 1956
A 2-KILOWATT, £15,000 broad casting station should be in operation at Lautoka, Fiji, “well before the end of next year,” according to a Fiji Broadcasting Commission announcement. Inten tion to establish the station was announced over a year ago.
The transmitter will be primarily a relay station, programmed from Suva. The connecting link will be by a chain of a very-high-frequency transmitter across Viti Levu’s back bone. “VHP” waves behave like light waves, and, like a searchlight
beam, may be accurately directed in any desired direction in the form of a sharp beam. A “VHP” link has certain advantages over a land line, which is subject to damage in bad weather and other weaknesses. Such a link between Suva and Lautoka has been in operation for some years as a Post Office telephone circuit. Equip ment is being supplied by Pye Radio of England. f, Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Cole have re turned to Brisbane after 30 years in Fiji. Mr. Cole recently retired from the post of Director of Lands. Their son, Mr. Rodney Cole, is in the Gov ernment service in Fiji.