57-576: AWV may refer to: Amalgamated Wireless Valve Co, part of AWA Technology Services Association of Writers of Vojvodina, a writing association in Vojvodina , Serbia Alain-Werke-Verzeichnis, a system for cataloging the works of Jehan Alain Alaskan Way Viaduct , an elevated road in Seattle, Washington, United States Topics referred to by
114-592: A Microwave Landing System (MLS) called Interscan . Many of these developments were undertaken jointly with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Australian Department of Civil Aviation . Some of these products are now produced and supported by Interscan Navigation Systems, which for some years was a privately held stand-alone company, but is now a fully owned subsidiary of Indra Sistemas ,
171-689: A Spanish defence and ICT contractor. AWA engineers were also working with Marconi in England on television systems from 1948, and in 1954 AWA provided the first experimental TV broadcast in Australia during Queen Elizabeth II's Australian Royal Tour. From 1948 to 1991, under its Aviation Division, AWA held the contract to install and maintain the avionics of the Australian domestic airlines (Ansett-ANA, later Ansett Australia and Trans Australia Airlines , later Australian Airlines). The Aviation Division
228-641: A direct radio service with the UK - in lieu of submarine cables - commissioned AWA to create a service in 1922. The government boosted the new company's capital and became its majority shareholder. In 1926, the company established two large beam wireless stations on 180 hectare sites; a receiver site in Victoria at Rockbank near Melbourne and a transmitter site at Ballan near Ballarat which eventually become known as Fiskville . A shortwave beam radiotelegraph service between Australia and Britain, undercutting
285-474: A fixed amount of transoceanic telegram traffic, reducing the revenue of the cable companies and possibly bankrupting them. Parliament ruled out the creation of a private monopoly to provide the service and concluded that no government department was in a position to do so, and the Treasury were reluctant to fund the creation of a new department. Contracting the construction to a commercial "wireless company"
342-635: A formal proposal from the Marconi Company to construct a series of wireless telegraphy stations to link the British Empire within three years. While not then accepted, the Marconi proposal created serious interest in the concept. A dilemma faced by Britain throughout the negotiations to establish the chain was that Britain owned the largest network of submarine telegraph cables . The proposed stations would directly compete with cables for
399-425: A landmark case in Australia, there were legal proceedings against auditors for failing to identify the trading, as well as cross claims against the company's directors, the foreign exchange trader and the banks involved. As a result, later that year AWA radio stations 2GN Goulburn, 3BO Bendigo, 3MP Melbourne, 4CA Cairns, 4TO Townsville and 6KY Perth were purchased by Wesgo for A$ 40 million. In 1988,
456-512: A matter of urgency. An expert committee also advised that Marconi were the only company with technology that was proven to operate reliably over the distances required (in excess of 2,000 miles (3,200 km)) "if rapid installation and immediate and trustworthy communication be desired". After further negotiations prompted by Treasury pressure, a modified contract was ratified by Parliament on 8 August 1913, with 221 Members of Parliament voting in favour, 140 against. The course of these events
513-400: A mile (800 m) long, and consisted of a row of five 277 feet (84 m) high lattice masts , erected in a line at 640 feet (200 m) intervals and at right angles to the overseas receiving station. These were topped by cross-arm measuring 10 feet (3.0 m) high by 90 feet (27 m) wide, from which the vertical wires of the aerial were hung, forming a " curtain antenna ". At Tetney
570-615: A not-for-profit Catholic healthcare provider. AWA has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, and Newcastle and a national network of more than 700 service agents. Established by Greg Steers in 1988 as Oasis Systems, their service regions, as Isoton, include Australia and Asia. Imperial Wireless Chain The Imperial Wireless Chain was a strategic international communications network of powerful long range radiotelegraphy stations, created by
627-414: A range of 2,000 miles, which required relay stations, and that Britain should be connected to Canada , Australia , South Africa , Egypt, India , East Africa , Singapore , and Hong Kong . However, the report was not acted upon. While British politicians procrastinated, Marconi constructed stations for other nations, linking North and South America, as well as China and Japan, in 1922. In January 1922
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#1732787422281684-491: A strategic defense technology, as it was realized that a nation without radio could be isolated by an enemy cutting its submarine telegraph cables , as indeed happened during the war. Starting around 1908, industrialized nations built global networks of powerful transoceanic wireless telegraphy stations to exchange Morse code telegram traffic with their overseas colonies. In 1910 the Colonial Office received
741-550: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages AWA Technology Services AWA Technology Services , formerly named Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd , is an Australian communications technology company. Throughout most of the twentieth century, AWA was Australia's largest and most prominent electronics organisation, undertaking development, manufacture and distribution of radio, telecommunications , television and audio equipment as well as broadcasting services. After
798-593: The Ashfield works under the AWV, RCA and Radiola brands. During World War II AWV produced a range of defence electronics materiel, including klystrons and magnetrons for radar equipment. In 1958 AWV commercialised research work by the AWA Research Laboratories to set up a plant to manufacture transistors and AWA Semiconductors was born. AWA continued to distribute products from RCA Semiconductor into
855-535: The Australian government in 1912, for infringing their patent (and AWL issued writs against firms using Marconi equipment), the government decided in future to use circuits designed by John Balsillie . Eventually the two firms settled their differences and, on 11 July 1913, formed a new company, Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd , with exclusive rights throughout Australasia to the patents, 'present and future', of both Marconi and Telefunken. Later that year
912-646: The British Chambers of Commerce added their voice to the demands for action, adopting a resolution urging the government to urgently resolve the matter, as did other organisations such as the Empire Press Union , which claimed that the Empire was suffering "incalculable loss" in its absence. Under this pressure, after the 1922 General Election , the Conservative government commissioned
969-734: The British government to link the countries of the British Empire . The stations exchanged commercial and diplomatic text message traffic transmitted at high speed by Morse code using paper tape machines. Although the idea was conceived prior to World War I , the United Kingdom was the last of the world's great powers to implement an operational system. The first link in the chain, between Leafield in Oxfordshire and Cairo , Egypt, eventually opened on 24 April 1922, with
1026-707: The Department of Defence appropriated and operated the Ballan facility for military radio operations, eventually returning it to civilian operations with the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (OTC). OTC joined with Telecom Australia in 1992 to form the Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation, later to become Telstra . AWA continued in maritime operations supplying marine radio operators to Australian registered vessels. The AWA Marine Division with its headquarters in
1083-543: The 1930s, AWA Aviation Department (later Aviation Division) operated the major avionics servicing organisation in Australia and Papua New Guinea through a number of service depots located at major and secondary airports, with a large workshop located in Airport West , Victoria. During World War II , the Marconi School trained an extensive number of military personnel in signals and communications. Additionally,
1140-690: The AWA head office until the 1990s and is now listed on the NSW State Heritage Register . Immediately after World War II through to the 1980s, AWA was extensively involved in the design, development and manufacture of advanced aeronautical communications, navigation and surveillance systems. These systems included the VHF Aural Range (VAR), Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) for airborne use and ground beacons, VHF Omni Range (VOR), Air Traffic Control systems (known as AWANET) and
1197-595: The Donald Report and discussions with the Dominions, it was decided that the high-power Rugby longwave station (announced on 13 July 1922 by the previous government) would be completed since it used proven technology, in addition to which a number of shortwave "beam stations" would be built (so called because a directional antenna concentrated the radio transmission into a narrow directional beam). The beam stations would communicate with those Dominions that chose
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#17327874222811254-638: The Empire Wireless Committee, chaired by Sir Robert Donald , to "consider and advise upon the policy to be adopted as regards an Imperial wireless service so as to protect and facilitate public interest." Its report was presented to the Postmaster-General on 23 February 1924 The committee's recommendations were similar to those of the Norman Committee – that any stations in the United Kingdom used to communicate with
1311-530: The Empire should be in the hands of the state, that they should be operated by the Post Office, and that eight high-power longwave stations should be used, as well as land-lines. The scheme was estimated at £500,000. At the time the committee was unaware of Marconi's 1923 experiments into shortwave radio transmissions, which offered a much cheaper alternative – although not a commercially proven one – to high-power long-wave transmission system. Following
1368-626: The Pacific, West Indies and Atlantic, and would also be given a lease on the beam stations for a period of 25 years, for the sum of £250,000 per year. The conference's recommendations were incorporated into the Imperial Telegraphs Act 1929 , leading to the creation of two new companies on 8 April 1929; an operating company Imperial and International Communications, in turn owned by a holding company named Cable & Wireless Limited . In 1934 Imperial and International Communications
1425-496: The Sydney suburb of Leichhardt continued to wholesale marine communications and radar equipment to the Australian maritime and leisure-boating market into the mid-1980s. The AWA Building at 45-47 York Street, Sydney was completed in 1939 becoming an instant landmark with its art-deco style and large white radio tower on top (in the shape of the Eiffel Tower) and was the tallest building in Australia until 1958. It remained
1482-474: The UK by RIS/RBE and included products and services such as Reditune Background Music, CCTV, Hotel Audio Distribution and Specialist Information Display Systems. In 1974 AWA-Rediffusion branched into the television sales and rental market setting up a chain of retail shops under their Redihire name. Colour television arrived in Australia in March 1975, around ten years after the UK. and Redihire had been preparing for
1539-703: The beam stations was reversed in 1947, when the Labour Government nationalised Cable and Wireless, integrating its UK assets with those of the Post Office. By this stage, however, three of the original stations had been closed, after the service was centralised during 1939–1940 at Dorchester and Somerton. The longwave Rugby radio station continued to remain under Post Office ownership throughout. The shortwave Imperial Wireless Chain "beam stations" operated in pairs; one transmitting and one receiving. Pairs of stations were sited at (transmitters first): At Bodmin and Bridgwater, each aerial stretched to nearly half
1596-548: The cable and wireless interests of the Eastern Telegraph Company , the Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company , Western Telegraph Company and Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company should be merged to form a single organisation holding a monopolistic position. The merged company would be overseen by an Imperial Advisory Committee, would purchase the government-owned cables in
1653-665: The cable companies, was inaugurated on 8 April 1927 and terminated on 31 May 1969. In 1928, it established a similar service between Australia and Canada. In April 1930 the Empire radiotelephone service commenced. The Australian Government in 1922 granted AWA exclusive rights to operate the Coastal Radio Service (CRS), a network of maritime radio stations that eventually included stations in New Guinea which had been hurriedly installed when Japan entered World War II . The Overseas Telecommunications Act 1946 resulted in
1710-455: The company was renamed "AWA Limited", and in August sold its telephone manufacturing and related businesses to Exicom . A year later, AWA Computer Support Services was established as an independent business unit. In the early 1990s, unable to compete with cheaper imported appliances, AWA exited the field of domestic appliances and consumer electronics, and focused on industrial technology. In
1767-573: The creation of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission and ownership of the CRS was transferred to this new organisation on 1 October 1946. In effect, all overseas telecommunications was nationalised. Australia was adopting a Commonwealth-wide policy that had been adopted the Commonwealth conference in 1945. The main goal was to end the artificial routing of traffic to cable or wireless depending on private financial profits. With its commencement in
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1824-497: The early 1960s. In May 2010, the employee at the centre of 1987's foreign exchange losses, Andrew Koval, was extradited from the United States to face criminal charges. He had previously defended a civil suit in relation to the matter. In February 2014 AWA Limited voluntarily appointed administrators because it may have been insolvent . In May 2014 the company was purchased by Mount Waverley based Cabrini Health Limited,
1881-495: The ensuing years. This division of AWA (later known as the Ashfield Division) was also the Australian distributor for many audio equipment manufacturers, including Tannoy , Revox , and AKG Acoustics . AWA-Rediffusion, a company jointly owned by Rediffusion International and AWA Limited, was formed in 1971. The business was a platform to enter the Australian market with Rediffusion systems similar to those offered in
1938-467: The event for over a year with six shops opening in and around the Sydney area with the company's headquarters in Roseville, New South Wales . Television rental accounted for around twenty percent of the initial market and Redihire adopted a 'rent or buy' marketing approach from the onset majoring on existing models that were being made for AWA-Thorn by Mitsubishi Electric of Japan. In 1975, AWA brought
1995-734: The event the link opened on 24 April 1922, two months after the UK declared Egypt independent . Parliament's decision came shortly after legal action initiated by Marconi in June 1919, claiming £7,182,000 in damages from the British government for breach of their July 1912 contract , and in which they were awarded £590,000 by the court. The government also commissioned the "Imperial Wireless Telegraphy Committee" chaired by Sir Henry Norman (the Norman Committee), which reported in 1920. The Norman Report recommended that transmitters should have
2052-649: The final link became operational between Australia and Canada, it was apparent that the commercial success of the Wireless Chain was threatening the viability of the cable telegraphy companies. An "Imperial Wireless and Cable Conference" was therefore held in London in January 1928, with delegates from the United Kingdom, the self-governing Dominions, India, the Crown Colonies and Protectorates, to "examine
2109-494: The final link, between Australia and Canada, opening on 16 June 1928. Guglielmo Marconi invented the first practical radio transmitters and receivers , and radio began to be used for practical ship-to-shore communication around 1900. His company, the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company , dominated early radio. In the period leading up to World War I , long distance radiotelegraphy became
2166-468: The first Pick minicomputer system to Australia, and set up a computer services arm. In 1977 AWA MicroElectronics was formed to design and manufacture integrated circuits and established a fully operational wafer foundry , integrated circuit fabrication facility and design centre. The group was a joint venture between AWA Ltd (64%), British Aerospace (25%) and the NSW Government (11%). This group
2223-598: The initial Jindalee Over The Horizon Radar trials. AWA Defence Industries (AWADI) was formed in October 1988 by the merger of the defence electronics business of AWA with those of Thorn EMI Electronics Australia and Fairey Australasia. AWADI was sold to British Aerospace Australia (now BAE Systems Australia ) in April 1996. With Radio Corporation of America (RCA), AWA established a joint venture (Amalgamated Wireless Valve Co. Pty Ltd) to manufacture radio valves (vacuum tubes) at
2280-674: The late 1980s, AWA established AWASCo Pty Ltd, a joint venture with Serco of the UK. The company provided facilities management services to federal and state agencies, and eventually Serco purchased AWA's share to form Serco Australia. In the early 1990s, unable to compete with cheaper imported appliances, AWA exited the field of domestic appliances and consumer electronics, instead to focus on industrial technology. In 1991, AWA purchased Melbourne radio station 3XY, relaunching it in 1992 as 3EE The Breeze . The station attracted good weekend audience ratings due to broadcasts of Australian Football League matches, but its Monday to Friday audience share
2337-702: The mid-1980s. AWA was a major manufacturer of television receivers under the AWA Radiola Deep Image brand from the mid-1950s until the relaxation of import tariffs under the Whitlam government in the early 1970s. With the increased competition in the marketplace, AWA joined forces with Thorn Electrical Industries UK in 1973 to create AWA-Thorn Consumer Products Limited, to produce colour televisions in Australia. Thorn colour television receivers modified for Australia were marketed as AWA or Thorn models, with local improvements being made to these over
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2394-533: The new entity established the Marconi Telefunken College of Telegraphy, (later renamed the Marconi School of Wireless. The first radio broadcast from the United Kingdom to Australia was received in 1918 by AWA with then Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes , praising the troops he has just inspected on the western front. In 1930, AWA transmitted the first newsreel pictures from Sydney to London . The Australian Government, requiring
2451-434: The new shortwave technology. Parliament finally approved an agreement between the Post Office and Marconi to build beam stations to communicate with Canada, South Africa, India and Australia, on 1 August 1924. From when the Post Office began operating the "Post Office Beam" services, through to March, 31st, 1929, they had earned gross receipts of £813,100 at a cost of £538,850, leaving a net surplus of £274,250. Even before
2508-492: The revenue which had been forecast, resulting in low dividends and an inability to reduce the rates charged to customers as much as had been expected. To ease the financial pressure, the British Government finally decided to transfer the beam stations to Cable and Wireless, in exchange for 2,600,000 of the 30,000,000 shares in the company, under the provisions of the Imperial Telegraphs Act 1938 . The ownership of
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2622-468: The sell-off of most of its assets and operating divisions, AWA is now primarily an information and communications technology (ICT) services company. The company commenced operations in 1909 as Australasian Wireless Limited (AWL) , a Telefunken wireless agent. The first chairman was Hugh Denison . Ernest Fisk , a foundation director, was general and technical manager. In 1916 he became managing director and in 1932 chairman. The Marconi Company sued
2679-567: The situation which arose as a result of the competition of the Imperial Beam Wireless Services with the cable services of various parts of the empire, to report upon it and to make recommendations with a view to a common policy being adopted by the various governments concerned." It concluded that the cable companies would not be able to compete in an unrestricted market, but that the cable links remained of both commercial and strategic value. It therefore recommended that
2736-574: Was able to use it to its advantage during the conflict. With the end of the war and the Dominions continuing to apply pressure on the government to provide an "Imperial wireless system", the House of Commons agreed in 1919 that £170,000 should be spent constructing the first two radio stations in the chain, in Oxfordshire (at Leafield ) and Egypt (in Cairo), to be completed in early 1920 – although in
2793-584: Was also the Australian distributor for many audio equipment manufacturers, including Tannoy , Revox , AKG Acoustics and Clarion (car audio) . In 1984, Mitsubishi Electric purchased AWA-Thorn, (renaming it Mitsubishi Electric AWA), marketing their VCRs , stereos and TVs in Australia while retaining 'AWA' in the brand name. AWA moved into TV broadcasting again in 1980, purchasing the Nine Network TV station QTQ-9 in Brisbane, Queensland. In 1985, it
2850-507: Was disrupted somewhat by the Marconi scandal , when it was alleged that highly placed members of the governing Liberal party had used their knowledge of the negotiations to indulge in insider trading in Marconi shares. The outbreak of World War I led to the suspension of the contract by the government. Meanwhile Germany successfully constructed its own wireless chain before the war, at a cost equivalent to two million pounds sterling , and
2907-404: Was eventually purchased fully by Corning to become Corning Noble Park, but closed in 2003. Also in 1984 AWA acquired Electrical Equipment Ltd, a major manufacturer of power transmission equipment. The AWA group had a combined staff of over 10,000. In 1987, AWA reported A$ 49 million in foreign exchange losses due to unauthorised trading in 1986 and 1987. Over the next decade, in what developed into
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#17327874222812964-448: Was less than forecast estimates, and in 1993 the station was sold to Wesgo Communications. AWA exited the industry in 1994, with the sale of Sydney station 2CH to John Singleton . In 2001, AWA was acquired by Jupiters. Shortly after Jupiters merged with Tabcorp , in 2004 the company was spun off, once again becoming an independent company. In 2006, AWA acquired Telefix Sales, which has been servicing home entertainment products since
3021-654: Was renamed as Cable & Wireless Limited, with Cable and Wireless Limited being renamed as Cable and Wireless (Holding) Limited. From the beginning of April 1928 the beam services were operated by the Post Office as agent for Imperial and International Communications Limited. The 1930s saw the arrival of the Great Depression , as well as competition from the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation and affordable airmail . Due to such factors Cable and Wireless were never able to earn
3078-604: Was sold off to Quality Semiconductor Australia (now Silanna Semiconductor) in 1996. In 1979 the Marconi School of Wireless moved to Launceston, Tasmania to become part of the Australian Maritime College . Later that year, the last Australian-made AWA appliances were produced at the company's Sydney manufacturing plant in Ashfield. From the late 1970s, appliances such as TVs were being made for AWA-Thorn by Mitsubishi Electric of Japan. This division of AWA
3135-588: Was sold to Alan Bond , as Bond began to assemble his ownership of the Nine Network. Through research done at the AWA Research Laboratories, AWA was an early entrant into the design and development of optical fibre technology in Australia. In 1984, AWA, in partnership with Corning of the US and Metal Manufactures Limited , established Optical Waveguides Australia Pty Ltd (OWA). AWA later sold its interest in OWA, which
3192-737: Was sold to British Aerospace in 1996, before being sold again to Rockwell Collins to be absorbed within its Australian avionics maintenance operations. AWA continued to have major involvement in the Australian defence electronics industry. It worked closely with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in developing the electronics in the Ikara anti-submarine weapon, Nulka EW rocket drone, AN/SSQ-801A Barra sonobuoy (with Plessey as Sonobuoys Australia Pty Ltd), Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile ( ESSM ), Agile Gliding Bomb and ALR-2002 Radar Warning Receiver, as well as providing support to
3249-501: Was the favoured option, and a contract was signed with Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company in March 1912. The government then found itself facing severe criticism and appointed a select committee to examine the topic. After hearing evidence from the Admiralty , War Office , India Office , and representatives from South Africa , the committee unanimously concluded that a "chain of Imperial wireless stations" should be established as
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