Argus p7 Engineering notes and comments

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NGINEERING.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

By METRE.

‘The experiment that the Commonwealth
Government are about to undertake in
utilising wirelem telegraphy in place of ex-
tending tbe telephone system in sparsely:
populated districts will be watebed with
Truck intereat, for it ia the first time that

rriment has ever been made.
jo-telegraphy in concerned, it

ld not be able to compete with a land
Tine telephone *ystem in the case of large
installations, because of the cost of opera-
ting and the necessity for having a skilled
qyerator. ut in these small stations that |
the Commonwealth are going to erect the
services of a junior operator will be all that
ire required, They will have ranges from
0 to 30 miire, and about 15 miles will be the
average. At the lagger stations the prim-
try source of power will be an internal com-
hustion engine of 3h.p. (the electric output
ill be about 2 k.w.), while in the short-