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Show I AUSTRALIA BEGINS GREAT RADIO WORK MELBOURNE. June 17 The preliminary pre-liminary work of establishing the mammoth Australian radio station for direct communication with Great Britain has been begun. The 6ubstatlons for overseas traffic traf-fic will be about three time as powerful pow-erful as any European station today It will take two years before the central cen-tral and feeder stations are completed. complet-ed. As a normal performance th3 chief station will be able to speak direct over 12,000 miles for the greater part of any working day. Receiving and sending stations to rorrespond will be built in Canada during the same period The plant for the main station will be importe 1 from England but the plant for thu feeder stations will he manufactured In Australia,' one for each of the states. The combined cost of all these stations sta-tions will be about $o,000.000 The main station will consist of a transmitter trans-mitter and receiver terminal 3o milea apart, the latter including 24 towers each 800 feet high spread over a .square mile The wireless rates will be one-third less than the present cable rates ta Europe |