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That it was not possible to reduce the "channel" requirements

listed in the minutes of the previous meeting.

That for the guidance of the Hong Kong Communications Board

the recommendations of the last meeting re land requirements

should be amplified.

That The Hong Kong Board should be informed that the largest

possible separation between the two sites was necessary,

and that 5 miles separation is considered to be tho

absolute minimum.

4. That:-

(a) The specimen aerial layout sketched by Cables and

Wireless, amended to include aorials for Hiroshima,

would be useful as a guide to the minimum acceptable

arr.ngemont for a Transmitting site.

(3) Another spooinom layout should be drawn as a guide to the

minimum scooptable arrangonont for a Repoiving Site, (Noto-lir. Smalo undertook to amond the original sketch

for 4(a)-above and to prepare the scoond skotoh for 4(b)

abovo).

(c) Copies of both these sketches should be sent, with the

minutes, to the Hong Kong Board emphasising that they

show the minimum acceptable layouts, and that greater

spacing of aeriels is desirable.

5. That, if it became necessary to connect several receivers

to one acrial that wide band amplifiers of the Cathode

follower type would be required.

6. That a signal summarising the above agreements and amplifying

the recommendations re land requirements, on the lines of

Air. Wynne-Jones' suggestion, should be sent inmediately

to the Hong Kong Board

(Copy of signal 201056A attached as Annexe to these minutes)

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