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THE Institution of Electrical Engineers is holding a Radiocommunication Convention during March 25^-28, at which some seventy papers-will be presented dealing particularly with war-time activities in this field and their resulting application to future peace-time development. The Convention will be opened on March 25 by Sir Stafford Cripps President of the Board of Trade, after which Sir Stanley Angwin will give a lecture on “Telecommunications in War” On March 26 four meetings will be held dealing in turn with long-distance point-to-point communication, naval, military and aeronautical communication, and the special features of pulse modulation in communication systems. The subject of short distance communication will be dealt with during the following morning, while the afternoon and evening sessions of March 27 will be devoted to direction-finding and war-time broadcasting respectively. On the morning of March 28, Sir Edward Appleton will open “the session on propagation with a paper entitled "The Investigation and Forecasting of Ionospheric Conditions”. The afternoon of the same day will be devoted to radio components, and in the evening, Sir Clifford Paterson will conclude with a review of the Convention and the future trends of development indicated by the papers and discussions. At an additional meeting to be held on April 2, a number of papers will be presented dealing with the various types of continuous wave radio navigational aids which have been developed during recent years.
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Radiocommunication Convention. Nature 159, 397–398 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159397d0
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