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RADIO TOPICS
A NEW MOVE.
RADIO ACROSS. THE. SEAS.
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THOUSANDS DAILY.
OCEAN PHONE MONEY DEALS.
S'PORE WIRELESS,
LISTENERS-IN WHO DO NOT PAY.
The Amatour Wireless Society of Thousands of pounds are doing A new branch of activity among amateur transmitters in this. coun-made daily by British Arms who are Singapore continues to supply try which may feld" valuable remaking regular use of the Transat-Malaya with evening concerts
principal every Wednesday and sulta in the development of long flantie telaphone.
Because Anancial deals depend Sunday. It appears to get precious We distance broadcasting has been the recent formation of a Research for their success on speed, London little support for, its pains. Section by the Radio Society of financial houses are using the ser- think it necessary to put in a plea for this admirable little organisa- Great Britain, says a Homo paper's vice to a great extent.
Post Office officials, while not tion because it is not talking, but The co-ordination
of radio expert, affected by this move, it is felt, divulging the namen of customers doing, showing the public
that Malaya that the transmission of may help in the solution of many using the service,, stated
a large number of British Arms concerts and the like, can be accom- technical problems. In actual long-
plished locally in acceptable man- distance transmission, both of tele- are using it regularly.
An official of the Over-seas ner-performing, in fact, the prac phony and telegraphy, amateurs have achieved remarkable results, branch of the Midland Bank sald (tical pioneer work that may least to bigger things in the futuro. The and It now only remalna to perfect to a Reportor,
"We do a lot of business by tele- Society has a fair number of mem- Appratus and aerial design to on- Bure a greater degree of reliability. phone to New York in our dealingabera, who pay an entrance fee of But there are many curious facts in foreign exchango-arbitrage in all five dollars and a monthly subscrip- about long-distance broadcasting currencies, and find that the Trans- tion of one dollar; but there is rea atlantic telephone more than pays son to believe that some people in that still require elucidating.
Mr. Gerald Marcuse, one of the for itself. The charge of £16 for Singapore and up-country who own best-known British amateurs, told three minutes may seem high to a receiving sets share in the good me that, while greater progress had man doing small business, but work by listening-in but do not been made in Transatlantic tolewell worth it to us. While talking phony, ha still regarded America as to New York we are able to follow the most difficult country in the the market movements just as if the London world with which to communicate.we were dealing on He suggested that it was far easler market, and we are able to make to communicate eastward from this four purchases within an instant."
state- country than westward,
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ment which appears to be borne out! by ships wireless, operators, who Hay that American stations, even in the ordinary broadcast band, seem. easier to pick up in the Atlantic than British stations working on equivalent power. Mr. Marcuse added that so confident was he of reception from New Zealand that if that Dominion had the necessary apparatus to broadenst on short waves, relays in this country could be arranged practically any day. Experimenter between the Radio Corporation of America and the. British Company in relaying on either aide are still in progress.
A new Osram power valve, manu- factured by the General Electric Company, should meet the demand for a good loud speaker valve to. operate from a low flament voltage. It works from a two-volt accumula- tor, and gives excellent. tonal purity in loud speaker reproduction,, the current consumption being ex- tremely small. The filament is of new design, the effect being to pro- duee greatly increased electron emission: The valve gives maxi- mum volume without distortion when used in the last stage, provid ing even amplification over a wide- range of musical frequencies.
WIRELESS LOVË,
The fact that a Viennese woman committed suicide after having fal Yen hopelessly in love with a broad- easter's voice illustrates a problem: which is not unknown to the British broadcasting authorities.
Artists and announcers were extremely reticent about the re- markable letters they received, days of especially in the early broadcasting. but the correspond- enes department was diplomatically equal to the occasion.
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Radio and talking machines have changed people into "listening public," which longer plays or buys sheet music according to John Philip Sousa, fonger" plays or buys sheet music, compost. His Income, he as- serts, has been more than cut in half since radio became the fad.
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equally share by paying a subscrip- tion." The work of the Society is on a purely amateur basis and involves a great deal of personal attention by those gentlemen who superintend the technical side and arrange the programmes... The expenses are" met from the revenue of the Society,. but with a larger income It might Those accomplish greater thinga. who are not yet members of the Society should make appleation at Union Building. Singapore.. where the headquarters of the Society are locatedStraits Times
SLEUTHS OF RADIO.
Wonder Car to Track Offenders:
were
How officials of the General Post Office are tracking down radio' Oscillators with the aid of a high- powered motor-car, equipped with a specially-constructed direction-find- ing set, was demonstrated to Press representatives when tests made in North Lerden. So aenei tive are the instruments carried in can be the car that oscillations
their tracked with certainty to source, and the house in which is the offending set identified by the 11 graduated: simple turning of wheel.
This wheel, by controlling the direction of a double circular frame
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RADIO FOR THE BLIND.
London, Feb. 21
A new era in the history of broad-
aerial, mounted on the roof, affecta casting may shortly be entered upon the strength of signals received on with the printing of broadcasting a three-valve super-sensitive selec-programmes in Braille embossed tive sat, and as the car approaches type to enable the blind,, who at pre- an oscillating set a pointer on a sent have to rely upon their friends: circle marked in degrees approaches for the reading of the programmes zero, and when the car le opposite from newspapers, to dispense with the offender the signals received this aid and read the programmes drop to a minimum. A movement themselves.
of a yard in either direction alters] The National Institute for the the signal strength, and thus a par-Blind is broadcasting an appeal for to print ticular house is indicated without funda to enable them possibility of error.
weekly programmes in Braille an When complaints are received by supply them to the blind for a sabe- the B.B.C. that oscillation in any cription of 6s. 6d, a year: area is particularly bad, the Post Office Engineering Department das- patch the ear with two operators. and a driver tog the district. With the aid of a large-scale map of Lön- don and a binocular compass of the submarine type the district is "combed out," and the offender dig. covered. The operators inspect the
licence. inform person's โช oscillating, and
that he
him
Writers of fervid notes to indivi-" duals found themselves warmly thanked by a limited liability com- pany (the British Broadcasting Another stage in the age-old fight Company) with no neck to be for supremacy between the criminal hugged and no Hips to be pressed. and society was. entered upon when "We trust you will continue to take the Chief of Police of the town of give advice and assistance in the announced working of the set. Should the such a deep interest in our pro Passaic, New Jersey, grammes," was the safe and imper- that, if the tests were successful listener offend twice, he is likely to sonal ezding employed when ac-all constables under his command lose his licence.
The car has been in commission knowledging (but ignoring) love-wonld in future be provided with letters.
miniature portable wireless receiv- for seven months, but has only been The envelopes containing these ing sets in order to keep them in good to track oscillators for about always marked constant touch with the central four weeks. Previously dt was Recently five "Personal" ao that, as far as pos- station at police headquarters. used to detect, unlicensed trans- sible, the love-lorn correspondent According to the inventor, who him-mitting stations. was protected from any teasing by self is a Passaic man, an alarm offenders were caught in the course
sent out from the central station of three hundred miles. her own family.
Then there were the admirers will immediately reach all police-. men equipped with receiving sete who-waylaid broadcasters at 2LO, the London station. In one case at within a radius of three and a half
miles. least a glimpse was sufficient to cure the trouble, and an offering of cigarettes went to some other des- tination.
answers were
Antwerps broadcasting station. Radio-Zoologie, was closed down owing to financial dificulties.
take.
Mr. Jack de Frece, brother of Sir Walter de Frece, M.P., has been appointed by the B.B.C. to charge of the brighter programme campaign on the variety side.
The sets have one valve and tiny batteries, and are so compact that they are fitted into a box the size of a cigarette case. The police": men will carry collapsible Car phones, and will have a small aerial attached to their sleeve or the lapel of their coat. On the outside of CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN BALM.
FEELING of warmth, comfort and their uniform will be fastened. a
An Essex wireless experimenter relief from pain follows an applica. small electric bulb which by light- tion of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It ing up will give them the signal Mr. F. A. Mayer, has been in com- to listen-in. The Chief of Police is a penetrating liniment for deep neat- ed pains, which reduces painful awell- believes that the invention will be munication with New Zealand for ings, relieves stiffness in muscles and of great assistance in checking 22 days, enabling an octogenarlan, Joints and leavensone feeling supple crime, and especially in catching Mrs. Franklin, of Wickford, to talk and active. Easily applied and feels gunmen in motor-cars, and "other each day with her son at Christ-
church. good to the skim Sold everywhere. quick get-away gentry
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