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RADIO TOPICS
ON THE AIR.
TO THOSE WHO HAVEN'T A RADIO.
Have you ever thought of what it means to you to be able to sit comfortably in your own home and, merely by pressing a switch and turning a couple of dinis, literally produce from the atmosphere that which will please nearly every
whim?
engineers and designers have done
SIGNALLING TIME.
all the thinking and technical work; it only remaina for the lis- Not satisfied even with the very tener to press a switch and turn a close approximation to the correct couple of dials.
time as furnished by a ship's
It is quite wrong to regard broad-chronometer at the announcer's casting only as a form of amuse- elbow, SLO, Melbourne, has just in- ment, or even morely as a wonder-atalled a very thorough and unique fal acientific achievement. A form method of signalling the exact time of amusement it is, certainly, and with a precision so close that even moreover an excellent one; in fact, ships at sea may set their chono- it would be hard to find any of the meters by it. At the Melbourne programmes provided that does not Observatory there is a compulously compare with or even surpass accurate timepiece that is set daily A star is Twenty years ago this would other forms of entertainment which by astronomical means. have seemned like a fable from the we are accustomed to enjoy. But observed through a telescope with Arabian Nights, but to-day it is broadcasting is more than amuse-n hairline across the cysplece and made easily possible by the practi- ment and entertainment; it is the exact time when the star crosses cal perfection of wireless broad- casting and reception, and la being rapidly becoming a new factor in the hairline is found by reference man's existence. It is a means to carefully calculated tables, called used by thousands
Ephemeris. of people in whereby profitable knowledge and an
The observer every corner of Queensland. information are brought to our very presses an electric contact which Several stations in Australia, and homes without any effort on our records a mark on a revolving drum hundreds of stations all over the part, other than switching on our and by this means the clock can be world, are filling the air with music, receivers. The scope of broadcast-adjusted with remarkable accuracy theatrical performances, educa-ing has increased so much in the to the fraction of a second. This tional lectures, and talks that last few years that the man with clock is adapted to make contact spell profit, good,
healthy out a wireless set must find him on a controlling mechanism which amusement and entertainment for self at a considerable disadvantage sends out clectric algṇal on their listeners. You don't even
among his fellows, for he is out of special line from observatory The con- have to move from your armchair immediate touch with everything along to 310 studio, to get all this if you have a radio that is happening round him. The tacts are closed every 10 yet.
acquisition of a set is no longer seconds and a dot signal is made. Wireless waves are everywhere; a luxury, but a necessity, and a until at the fifty-sixth a series of they can penetrate through densest profitable investment. It gives the dots is sent one per second, thus scrub, deep down into the howels power at a touch to bring out of 66, 67, 68, 69, and then a long dash The of the earth, and right into your the air the news of everything that indicates the exact minute. home, and the service is always is happening around, and in the operator in 3LO control room can there between 6 o'clock and mid- other countries of the world, the "Fade in" those algnals whenever night waiting to be commanded into mellow touch of music, theatrical he chooses, underneath whatever is being by the turning of the dials.
performancea, and for the kiddies being transmitted at the time.
whether song, speech; band selec
TELEPATIC POWERS.
At
It has always been difficul. to bedtime stories and other entertain: gauge the importance of present-ment: Every day there are given tion, wrestling, or what net. day discoveries and events or to talks by people who make their present they are being "faded in" estimate their probable influence on particular subjects a study, on the on the last minute, of each hour the future course of civilisation. various phases of farming, sheep throughout the broadcasting ses- We are, however, gifted in a vnry- and cattle raising, and other things|sion. ing degree with a certain sense of that are of importance to the man Imagination, and it is this sense on the land. Not only are the pro- which enables us to visualise 'more
blems of production dealt with, but or less the possibilities of new dis- the latest and most successful coveries or a new application of
means of marketing the products to A remarkable transmission by science.
the beat advantage of their owners 4QG recently was that in which the are discussed in simple and telepathic powers of "Argus" were thoroughly practical manner. Mar- tested by radio. "Argus" is accom- ket reports and the latest weather panied on all his tours and in all forecasts and general information his performances by his father, Mr. are also included.
C. L. Copeland, who demonstrates.
.
The introduction of broadcasting is probably as important to the world as was the introduction of printing in the 15th century. At that time it is safe to say that few, if any, appreciated the huge in- fluence that printing would have in the cause of civilisation, and it is doubtful whether we at this moment realise more than a small fraction of the far-reaching influence that broadcasting is having, and will have, on the population of world. That it has come to stay is proved by the rapid increase of listeners all over the world. In England alane, within a year of its Inception, there were 500,000 sets installed, and probably two million people listened in regularly to the various entertainments broadcast To-day in England there are over three millions sets. In our own State of Queensland alone there are nearly 30,000 licensed sets.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an export but our readers are warned to look out for occasionat phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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22
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HORIZONTAL 1-What Philistine gad was pictured as half man and half fish? 6-0f what country is
Alfonso XII king? Awry (Bcet.) 11-Lacking luster 12-What early king.
called "The Great,"
originated the
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) | VERTICAL (Cont.) 38-In what city In N. E. 10-Bldier
15452
Italy was famous 13-What animal is the council held in
#king' of beasta?” 15-What is a musical
medley called? 18-Prefix-form of
"Ed"
38-What is the bleat of
⚫ sheep?
140-What woman of '
Moab married Boaz!19-What is the Latin and became an
for "sun?" ancestress of
|22-What Is a minor David?
jury called?
English navy7 14-Manufacturing alty42-Conjunction
In central Georgia 13-A pointed tooth
The upper atr 16-Plentiful 17-What is the tightest 45-A fruit
form of mattor? 20-An oleoresin of 5.
America 21-Distress signal at
FOR
เ
22-What river rises
Hear Banta Fe, N. M., and flown through B. Texan Into the Rio Grande?
24-it la (contr.) · 25-Yen
26-What parlor game fa played with cards and disks? 28-And (Latin)
29-Where was the first 'home' of Abraham? 30-Proportion
33-A city on lala of
Ely, England 35-Borough (abbr).
48-A single thing 49-What city is the
-Beat of the Popet GO-What is a statue
without head and {mbs called? 51-To stupefy, ze with
drink
VERTICAL
t-Darling
2-What are game-
cocka' attel spuri
CRIJEST
3-A man-eating demon: 4-Born (French) B-What is the result
obtained by addition?
6-A plotted map 7-Who wrote "Little
Wament"
8-Who was the
23-Which of Napoleon's
marshrin war Duke of Dalmatie?
25-9tt?
27-To attempt 30-To put to fight 11-Who followed
Garfield to preal- dent of the U. 8.7 32-Girl's name 53-0f what place was
the witch consulted
by Saul, king of Jarnet? 34-Squad
35-What naval station
is on the N, W. corst of Franco? |37–Prefix-emo-Be “in”
18-Pol10 |39-Actor
41-Barnyard fowl
(pl) 43-Renown
45-What
Spanish for
#river?"
reputed founder of 47-To take away from Nineych?
(The solution of the have cross-word-puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue dwng with a new cross-word puzzle.)
It may be argued that all this in- from the body of the theatre, ask formation can be gleaned from ing questions of "Argus," who sits technical journals and text books. | blindfolded upon the stage. Probably it can, but it is a well-rangements were made between Mr. known fact that the personality of Copeland and Station 4QG for test- the lecturer is conveyed to his ing the powers of his son. audience through the voice, and strong committees were selected by will rivet the attention of the lis-Station 4QG to supervise the test toner who would pass over the same and to ensure that there could be words presented to him in cold no connection between Station 4QG print.
and the Lyceum Theatre, save the Leaving the business aspect of microphone, which was switched on radio for a moment. let us imagine and off before and after each test cosy living-room converted to a by the chief engineer and director concert hall or a theatre, in which of 100. With the microphone are living reproductions of the switched off and "Argus,”- sitting artists who are broadcasting. A blindfolded upon the stage of the
DEVICE OF THE DEVIL· lunce et the radio pro- Lyceum Theatre, the committed in Frammea will give some the Studio of 4QG would decide
Mohammedan pricats in the idea of the variety and quality of upon some article, card, or number.
Mountains recently The art of broadcasting, and the the entertainments provided. They The microphone would then be Caucasus apparatus used for the trans represent practically the whole switched on and the, loud speaker publicly condemned a radio set as mission and reception of music and range of items that are possible. fitted in the Lyceum Theatre would a device of the devil and threw it over a cliff. We must confess that and speech, will doubtless be im- The mere fact of turning the dials advise "Argus" by the sounding of
at times we have the same sort of proved as time goes on; but the of a set automatically places then gong that all was ready. technical perfection that has al- man out of town on the same level, Mr. Copeland would then ask feeling especially when the static is ready been attained is more than from an entertainment point of "What have I here?" or "Please particularly bad. sufficient, to satisfy even the most view, as his fellows in the largest read this gentleman's, mind," and
A number of cases of cholerat critical of audiences. It may, per cities. So advanced has radio be "Argus" would answer into the haps, be interesting to compare the come that it is even possible to lis-microphone upon the stage the cor- have occurred in the kamponga progresa of radio with that of the ten to concerts from as far away rect answer. As the test progress-along the Perak river. Up to date there have been about 85 cases automobile: Twenty-five years ago as Holland. These are picked up ed and the boy's mind went into a if a man bought a car he had to have, unless. he were somewhat of an expert, a mechanic to travel with the machine, in order to ensure its safe return; even then, very often the matter of return was problema- tical. To-day, we have ears of such simplicity and reliability that a man without any technical knowledge at all can drive about for thousands
The
by our stations and rebroadcast. deeper state, no word was spoken with about 20 deaths.
Do you remember the thrill that from 4Q0 whatever. you experienced when your mother microphone would be switched on, read you stories from the Arabian the gong Bounded, and Instantly Nights when you were a child, and "Argua" would describe the article the pleasure and anticipation with that was held before the microphone which you watched eagerly for your at 4QG. birthday to come round? All these. things are available from all the stations between 6 and 7 o'clock
A DANISH TENOR.
Signor Palmetto, the Danish
of miles with absolute confidence each evening, and on Saturday both in the machine and in its safe afternoons. Bedtime stories, fairy return. Until a few years ago tales, nursery rhymes, all are told tenor, who is delighting audiences radio was in the same stage; but and sung during this period, and from studio 3LO by the rich quality now it is just as simple, in fact, they are different every night. of his voice and the bell-like clarity considerably more so, to operate a "The Professor" and "Uncle Jim," of his "head notes," has done much receiving set than it is to drive even of station 4QG, take the children on globe trotting during his procco- the most advanced and simple of long motor launch, car, and sero-sional career, and has broadcasted cars, During the development of plano rides, in story form and in in more countries than, any other the automobile there have been a manner that the children dote on. artist who has paid a visit to studio He has broadcasted in over 1,000 manufacturers In Then, when the various, birthdays 3LO. America alone making cars and en- enme round, the names of the America, South Africa, and China, gines of various types. These have children whose birthday it ia are to say nothing of a very successful boiled down to a mere thirty-eight announced and a special littlo mes- season at station 2LO, London--- where all his relatives in Denmark manufacturing ears and engines on Bage broadcast for the occasion.
The The three well-known principles.
All these things can be obtained hear him singing distinctly. samo can be said of radio. Count for the family for the cost of the signor says that transmission from less numbers of circuits have been receiver and the yearly license fee. London to Denmark is particularly tried out and manufactured, but Good sets by reliable makera can be good, and it is only on very rare only the simplest and most efficient purchased for £30 or £40, and will occasions that every item cannot Already the remain, and these can be counted last for years, and give very little. be distinctly heard." on the fingers.
if any, trouble. The yearly licencef signor has had many letters from. Hundreds of technical journals fee, paid to the Post Office, is 27/8. several of his countrymen who have have been, and will be, published Assuming that the set will only last made. their homes in Australia ney- an radio and broadcasting, but the five years, and that it costs £35; ing how much they have enjoyed thing to remember is that no tech- on this basis it costs a mere 2/ a his numbers, and how delighted nical knowledge is necessary for the week for Information and amuse- they were to hear their own lan efficient and satisfactory operation' ment that are invaluable.The guage, The Danish," coming over
the air. of the receiving set of to-day. The Queenslander.
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