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The Mercury, Wednesday , aye. 11s.

WIRELESS TELEGRAPH STATION
Office authorities -retify that the Hobart i = St 2 beccaph——-
Stalian will be Open for business from today, May 1. The hours of
attendance of the Operators will be from ii ass CO 11 p.m. oF
4&8 Dusiness warrants,

More extracts from the Mercury re the Hobart Domain Wireless Station
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which opened in 41912, Richard Rogers VE7RO Ni ec oo JA

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The Mercury, Saturday, December if, 1924.

Radio Notes,

An Antigquated Station.

=e i broadcasting we must have a minimum of interference . .
The Domain Radio Station, Hobart, will cause wWoilimited annoyance unless
it is modernised several eeens- « ~ « VIN ie a 5S kiwy apare station
dating back a COnBiderable time, and is af the most antiquated degion.
i + VIA, . eee 8 8 ae Forrest ultra-audion get, which does ite
duty as well as can be wilehecd, However, the the grudge is not against
the receiver, but the trarnemitter. . . Any Spark station is liable tea
interfere if close GnGugly «3...

b Tne first broadcasting station in Tasmania, 7ZL, Opened four days
later, cn ember 17, 1924, ]

The Mercury, Wedne@gday, December &, 1926

HOBART RADIO STATION

It will be good news . . » fOr broadcast listeners, to know that the
Wireless telegraph station on the Domain at Hobart has had the old
Spark wireless transmitter dismantled, and there is now ingtalled in
its stead a very fine transmitter of the thermionic valve type.

The valve transmitter is Of the 2 ku, type, specially designed and
manufactured . . . a note of any desired mitch May be transmitted,
There ig little apparatus compared with the Old Spark station, . ..
The n@w apparatus .. . ig algo capable of transmitting on the
Continuous wave syatem, and when ASCGhaary Can be adapted for Wireless
telephone transmission.

in association with the SeGCial valve transmitter, the Hobart Macdio
Statian isa equipped with a 4—valve receiver. This receiver was made boa
meet all requirements of a modern coastal radio station. Although the
receiver hag provision made Tor feuc Valves, it is so designed that ariy
number from one up toa four fay be used, as circumstances may make
NG@Cesgary.