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AS mentioned in our notes columns of December 17, the new wireless telegraph station at Bolt Head, South Devon, was opened by the Postmaster-General on December 11. This station is the first belonging to the Post Office to be opened for a regular service of communication with ships at sea, and has telegraphic connection with Exeter, through which town all messages will be transmitted. In accordance with the provision of the International Radio-telegraphic Convention of 1906, the station will establish public communication with all vessels carrying wireless telegraphic apparatus irrespective of the system of wireless telegraphy which they may have installed. The range of the station is 250 miles, though it is not anticipated that the general working range required will exceed about 100 miles. The cost of communication is expected to average about 8d. per word, made up of a shore charge of 3½d. and a ship charge of 4d., and the usual ½d. per word for the ordinary land rate.
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S., M. The New Wireless Telegraph Station . Nature 79, 224–225 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079224a0
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