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Radio Broadcast
frontier dwelling and "listen in" on messages and concerts from a long distance. The Jerse}' City message already referred to was received over a high-power Dominion Government receiving set taken in by a survey party. J. B. Henderson, the Ottawa expert in charge of this set, arrived in Edmonton one day this spring on his way north for the summer. B.efore leaving he set up his apparatus, connected it with the largest aerial in the city, and picked up time signals from the Lyons, France, the Annapolis, and the Darien, Panama stations.
■The possibilities of radio in the far North country, which stretches all the way to the Arctic circle, are tremendous. That radio stations will soon be scattered all over that
territory at outposts and forts on the fringe of civilization seems to be a certainty. The Journal has received applications and requests for information from points as far north as Fort Chipeywan and Finley Forks at the junction of the Peace River and Athabasca.
That the big northern trading and transportation companies, such as the Fludson 's Bay Company, will soon be availing themselves of the wonderful possibilities, is a foregone conclusion. Officials of the Imperial Oil company are considering radio, and have cited the trip of Ronald McKihnon where two months were required to bring word of the far north wells, whereas by radio this information would have been available in a few seconds.
THH INlbRlOR Ol IHU bUMONTON JOURNALS BROADCASTING ST.ATION .Most of the transmitling and receiving equipment is of English manufacture. The receix ing tubes, located on the panel at the right are quite different in form from the American tubes, and the receiving set above them is also quite different
from those we use