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MINUTES OF A SPECIAL MEETING HELD AT 143 PICCADILLY W.1. ON TUESDAY

16th APRIL 1946.

PRESENT:

G/Capt. H.G. Leonard-Williams Commander C.B. Brooko

Lt. Commander R.F. Phillimore

Commander C.R. Williams

Mr. A.M. Humby

Lt/Col. W.G. Tucker

G/Capt. G.H. Randle

S/Ldr. R. Davidson

Chairman

D.R.E. Admiralty D.S.D.

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D.Sigs. War Office.

D.D. Radio D. Air Ministry Sigs.Plans 1 Air Ministry Cables & Wireless Ltd.

Mr. W.G.R. Jacob

Mr. J.A. Smale

Mr. E.I. Wynne-Jones

Mr. J. Megson

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P.M.G. Hong Kong Colonial Office.

W/Cdr. J.M. Adams, B.J.C.B. Secretary.

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The Chairman said the minutes of the last meeting had been sent

to the Hong Kong.Communications Board and The Board had replied by

signal, la summarised version of which had been circulated. The Hong Kong

Board had described the difficulty it was encountering in finding

communal sites for the Transmitting and Receiving Stations, of the

sizes recommended at the last meeting and stated that either the

requirements of Transmitting and Receiving Channels must be reduced, or

if this could not be done, some system of greater sharing of aorials

utilizing wide band amplifiers and multi channelling equipment must be

adopted in order to economise in the land required for aerial arrays.

At the last meeting it had been stated that the requirements

listed by the various departments were the minimum necessary to provide

essential services. Perhaps the departments could now say whether they

could cut down requirements. If not it must be decided what was to be

done to assist the Hong Kong Board. Would greater sharing of aerials

provide the required Technical efficiency.

Mr. Smale said that at the last meeting there had been a tendency

to add all the requirements together and then plan the maximum space

needed for the aerial systems, on the basis that each main circuit

must automatically have its own aerial array, and cach acrial array

must have its own piece of ground. This would be the ideal arrangement /provided.....

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