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RADIO TOPICS.
EMPIRE GIRDLE.
FASCINATING WIRELESS
PROSPECT,
The fascinating prospect of wire- less telephony with nil parts of the Emprosa was discussed by Mr. F. G Kellaway in an interview with さん representative of "The Observer," in which the question was naked whether we shall be able in the near future to talk to Canada and the Dominions over the short Beam wireless system of the Mar- coni Company.
other
BROADCASTING.
THE LONG DISTANCE
FEVER...
From abvera! scurces, lutely
SCHOOLBOYS,
WIRELESS PRESENTS
NUISANCE
1 Your "schoolboy, howlar" of to- day is not the young person who describes the patron saint of Ire- land as "Mr. Gladstone" but the lad frat who has just received his wireless set,,*
on
on
doven
have had indications that the wild thir fo clatant reception among wireless enthusiasts is declining. says the radio correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph. It is
Thoughtless. but benevolent, an stated, that listeners, who formerly look delight in listening to any ata unele gives the boy an oscillating tion but their own, are now tiring two- valve set not realising that the of the sport, parverse as it may offering will cause far wider do- seem now, that heterodyning is on vastation than a bagpipe outfit. the wane and highly selective nuts His nephew then blasts, the broad- are cheaper and more easily con- eust harmony of six 07 trolled. Wireless manufacturers parishes by uninstructed handling of the new toy. That is what is report that listeners are now
happening overywhere at present. the whole concentrating more
Bistrict aftor district is suffering the quality of receptien from the local station. Perhaps the radio from the curse of the schoolboy searcher's stories of his wonderful howler. The young operator knows formerly that if he twiddles a certain knob theren hauls, which used to rival sherman's yarns, are the set makes a much follier row. becoming out of date as the selec And the neighbours know it tog, tivity of the average set increases, for their aerials pick up the whoppi A more feasible explanation is, how-and howls till their loud-speakers ever, that wireless set owners have yelp in torture.
Boventry will donounce the in- come to the conclusion that foreign programmes are no better tham, if font oscillator's street and publish "Tests have been made during 45% good Bs, our own. I addition, its shame to half the world, but! there is practically no reliability of j only when a petition of at least halt two recent Sandays, when the sta
been reception, Marae, ntmospheries, and in dozen, householders. has tions were not so fully occupied as on weekdays with wireless el fotting causing sufficient brouble, signed and presented to the B.B.C. graphy, and they demonstrated that even if heterodyning is gradually By the time this can be done the As a means originator of the outrage will be a wireless telephone service, over)
being eliminated. the Beam system can be carried on. of learning foreign languages, back at school and beyond brond-
"Conversations took place beforeign atutions may still ure Bricast vengeance.
AL present "It would be a kindness if every tween officials of this company and tish listeners, but
Are wearing one who has recently given & wire- officiala.of the Canadian Marconi) seems their charms Company for some hours. They badly. During the first few days less set to a child would at once
"If you ask me," the managing director of the company said, "whe- ther a wireless telephony service over the Beam system between the country and Canada can be estab- Hshed this year, my reply is that there is no technical difficulty what exur. The Post Office engineers are fully alive to this possibility, Discussions, in fact, have already taken place between officials of the Marcori Company and offenfe of the Post Olee, and, they have agred to mur making tests on the Canadian elreuit.
were just as clear as conversations Lover ordinary telephone land lines. They were conducted not only be Sween the station at Bodmin and the corresponding station in Canada, but they were also cried on from Bodmin into the Canadian Marconi Company's office in Mon- treak
Small Costs.
"Generally R can be stated that wherever high-speed wireless tele. graphy services on the Beam system are established the installations can also be used for wireless, telephony servlecn. It will be possible to ron- duct both a wireless telegraph ser vice and a wireless telephone ser vice simultaneously from the same station by putting in al additional transmitter, the cost of which, with the necessary building. will be com paratively smal"
Mr.
"Will the charge to the public bel comparatively small also?" Kellaway was asked
Mr. Kellaway replied, "The lowe the capital cost the lower the charges that can be made to the public, As the official statement issued by the G.P.O. has pointed: out, the present charges for the American services have been in flanced by the fact that anyone using the service is using equip ment of something like one million pounds in capital value.
1
can only say I do not know all the considerations which the Pont- master-General is bound to have in mind. From the technical and practical point of view, I see no ronson why such services should not be instituted during the course of the present year. for the wireless telegraph service with Australia will be opened shortly, and that with South Africa and India will follow about March and April in all probability.
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Dr. Palmer has invented an "electro-magnetic detector and amplifier," which will replace batteries and vacuum tubes in radio. receiving sets as well as make them more sensitive and provide greater range.
of the new wave length' scheme. expected a ferocious chorus of howls from the searching commun- its groping for carrier waves, and was surprised to find so little inter- ference from this source.
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1927.
DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE,
(This crusa-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasionals phonetic spellings, such aà harbor, plow, and altho.y
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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
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emaciated:
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Crate
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19-Trialty term (abbr)|36-Covertly: sardastid
$7-The diaphragm.
20-To prize
21-A day of the weak
(abbr)
22-Vast time-parlod:
(PL)
25-A food flah
26-To tattle.
28-To- patch."
80 Conjuntion. 31-Twofold
32-Clotted blood 34-A ruler
30-A oricket
36-Presuming
197-An ancient country
of Greate
59-Without life
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VERTICAL
1-Kaunty discerning
VERTICAL (Cont.)
17-A fruit 23-To-overajaborate. 24-9 ag
28-Coarse stuff of jute (27-Lad (Boot.) (29-Bhart sword
(Malay)
Is Evil destiny
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example" (Latin= *bbr.)
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(xbbr.)
37-Highest peak in
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34-Cry of wild grass
2-Originator of atomlo 39-Manufactured
theory.
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AmPint (abbr.):
141-A burrowing rodeak:
|42-A Hindoo outonat.
43-A layman:
B-To drink axoausively 44-Unyleiding,
6-Parsonal pronoun
|7N.E. State of
U. S.. (abbr)
8-A drink
Juk pata..
SB-HI Majoaty (abbr)10-A bush
40-More (cat.)
42-An exoU
43-To. loiter
48-A 2utting: Implonient 49-Stylish
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continents
32-A100
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13-A vehicle on runners 60-Nickoli(ahem. ■ym): 18-A Roman emperor 50-Deciliter (abbr).
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue niong "with a new cross-word: puzzle.)
STOWAWAYS FATE,
Death From Starvation.
Rome, Feb. 21. The steamship "Adriatic" reach- send a postcard to Technical Cor- respondence, B.B.C., 2, Savoy-hilled Naples on Saturday from New WC. 2, asking that painted instruc-York with the bodies of two Italian tons on how to avoid oscillation peasants, stowaways, who dled should be
£8
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RADIO IN FUTURE.
Twopence-in-the-Slot Wireless...
London, Feb. 15. "London calling, British Isles, the two pennies please" may be radio signal of the future, if the suggested scheme for a twopence- in-the-slot wireless is put into operation.
were
At
When the vessel reached America both were dead. Several arresta were made by the Naples police. Wireless.
sent to the young_re- cipient. No charge is made. The trom hunger.
werk of
taken aboard They "I should like to give the assur, In other countries, however, where B.B.C. regards it ance," he added, "that the Post radio has not yet reached the stage I public charity.
Naples on the outward journey, it Office officials are keenly alive to of development it has here, the
is supposed by atokers, and con- the great possibilities which the long distance fever is apparently
cealed in the coal bunkers. Beam system presents 'ef instituting raging unchecked. I have recent- Wireless telephony services between ly heard from a listener in India :this country and all parts of the who, working an eight valver.
Empire. But if you ask me when in hill station, claims I the services will be commenced I ception from most Euro- stations at pean broadcasting. moderate laud speaker strength, Bournemouth can be
separated from Bombay by the slightest ad- fustment of the condenser.. As in most tropical regions, atmospherics are troublesome, but lesson as the weather turns colder, and fading is usually only of short duration. Afternoon transmissions from
A resident of Weston-super-Mare Europe, he claims, can he heard al- most any night. Incidentally Mr. sent letter to the Postmaster- Eric Dunstan, the 210 announcer Office should provide listening-in General suggesting that the Post taking 13
charge of started all that will be required to Indian broadcasting, said good-bye rooms, at which the publie could establish wireless telephony with to British listeners through the aire earphones to the Empire will be an additional microphone the other night.specified time. transmitter with the necessary In a comparatively short time two- building for each station. I do not big modern broadcasting stations wish it to be supposed, however, will supersede the existing radio that the Postmaster-General or any-clubs in Bombay and Calcutta. body else can start u service in the twinkling of an eye; but I am con-. Adent it would be possible to do it the King," it was suggested, "might
be broadcast to Australia ?".
"After these services have been who.
in the course of the present year." A Possibility of the Royal Tour!
"Then, of course, many posibili ties would be opened up?
Esten for å
The Postmaster-General replied that legislative authority would be necessary before the Post Office could operate the scheme. He does not consider that he would be justi fed in seeking parliamentary sane- tion, but no objection would be raised to private individuals ex- ploiting the scheme, provided radio licence is obtained for every listening-in booth.
"I can see no technical difficulty, in that either," Mr. Kellaway aald
With regard to the London-New "Yes," said Mr. Kellaway, "the York telephone service" over the possibilities are simply fascinating. Government's high-power system For example, the Duke of York will "from Rugby, Mr. Kellaway added be opening the new Houses of Par- that "we have watched the experi- A census of 6,000 pupils of Hament in Australia this year. I ments with great interest, and watecondary schools, taken with a a wireless telephony service on the naturally wish well to every deveview to finding out their preferences Beam system was established, and lopment of Senatore Marconi's in regard to subjects broadcast,
invention, although an hour convenient to ench country great
showed, according to Mr. D. H. could be arranged, I can see no turally wo should have Pre-MacCurtain, of Crewe, that 68 per technical 'difficulty in the Duke' of ferred that the Arst trans- York's speech being sent to London oceanic wireless telephony service cent, voted for music (of whom one- by wireless telephony and broadcast to be established should have been third preferred Savoy and other by the B.B.C."
I between this country and one of banda), and only 8 per cent. for edu
rational subjecta. "And, similarly, a message from her Dominions."
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