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GROWTH OF WIRELESS
THE SIMPLICITY OF VALVE SETS.
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New Position. Powerful Government Station,
What is the difference The Chief Manager of Telegraphs the crystal and the valve set? That The Radio Corporation of the and Wireless (Mr. J. Malone) has is. a point which troubles many re- Philippines announces a direct bean appointed Chief Inspector of cruits to the ranks of Radio-ites, radio service to the Dutch East Wireless in the Postmaster-Gen- and is the cause of some misgiving Indies beginning on October 17. eral's Department, Australia, a until they know whether or not the Communication will be main position which was created recently, first set they have constructed "Is tained through the powerful gov. Hitherto Mr. Malone, as mana-going to work. So far as the cry- ernment station at Malabar and ger of Telegraphs and Wireless, has stal set is concerned, they know one of the RCP high frequency supervised the telegraph and wire what takes place when the broadcast transmitters, controlled from the less departments of the Post Office. programme la brought to their ears. Owing, however, to the increased They know the simple, principle in- Preliminary tests show every duties which
of the im- he has been called valved-that one-half indication that the service will be upon to perform, due principally to pulso received actuntes tho, car- quick and reliable. Standard au- the growth of wireless, it was de phones, while the remaining half, tomatic operation will be employ-cided to divide the office into two which is rejected by the crystal, is ed in both directions.
used to regulate the wavelength- but, when it comes to understanding a valve circuit, they just cannot.
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BEGINNERS GO SLOWLY.
Book knowledge may be acquired) to almost any extent, and yet thos who acquire it may be hopeless from a practical point of view, The only way to become successful in radio is to experiment, even if such experimenting la carried on in the simplest and the most ele- mentary fashion. One hour at the bench will teach the enthusiast more than a week poring over a book.
The beginner, får from being die mayed when he encounters trouble, should be glad to know that ob- stacles to progress are being plac ed in his path. It is only by meet- ing and solving troubles that ex [perience can be gained, and this ex- perience is priceless. To solve a problem, to successfully master a trouble, gives the student a self- confidence that, always remains his most valued servant. A trouble, once mastered, is mastered for The more troubles encoun- good. tered the less there are to meet,
We have said that the amateur should not attempt to become an expert. For one thing, there is no such person in wireless that the most experienced investigator real By knows but little. This permita the veriest novice to feel that he is not far behind. To-day he may know nothing; yet he has not far to go ere he will be able to catchi up and achieve great things.
sections.
In announcing Mr. Malone's ap. pointment last week, the Director
of Postal Services (Mr. H. P. And, consequently, In their firet Brown) said that he would occupy valve attempt they construct blindly his new position forthwith. Until-following the instructions to the
SERGE WİLLER, WASH, D. L
Col. T. F. Farves, Engineer-in- Chief of the British Post Office, who will head the British delega tion to the International Radio Conference, to be held in Wash- ington, Delegates from virtually every country will attend the con- ference, at which radio subjects and laws will be studied.
There is an old saying that one must learn to walk before it is pos sible to run. We would have every reader bear this in mind. Learn a little at a time and learn it well. To pass over a perplexity because the new position of Chief Inspector of Telegraphs, was filled, however,
letter, and hoping against hope that they make no mistake in the wiring. Usually, the potential valve-set owner is well "read" on the corse- quences of wrong wiring-burnt- out valves, burnt-out headphones, and burnt-out transformers, not to mention a few disconcerting, though harmless, noises which may be set up. Lack of confidence very often leads to lack of success, but, happily, auch failure is only tem- porary. A checking-over of the connections from the diagram, a tightening of any slack terminal, or a squeezing home of some ill- fitting valve ultimately leads to the entire satisfaction of the listener.
But there is, after all, no reason why those about to advance from the crystal to the valve stage should not be able to understand just what they are doing. The matter is admittedly a little more complex, but not unduly 80.
It must first be recognised that in the valve circuit the principle employed in the crystal set in still |employed, but there are, in addition, two electrical circuits. The differ- ence, therefore, between the two common types of receivers is that one consists of two circuits and the other of four.
BROADCASTING PROGRAMMES,
The Royal Commission on Wire- less, which was appointed by the Federal Government in January of this year, finds that in view of the quality and variety of the pro-
it is difficult to probe is to pro Mr. Malone would continue to act grammes rendered and the artists
ceed wrongly. Try and fathom pro- blems as
they present themselves, but do not seek them. Start at the bottom, climb up, and make sure of every step on a ladder which, even tually, will lead to great things.
What To Commence With.
In that capacity,
Distinguished Career.
employed, and the comparatively. small sum paid by the listener for a year's entertainment, the public Mr. Malone began his career in of most of the States have little to the Postal Department as a tele-complain of in regard thereto. graph messenger in Western Aus-Nevertheless, their investigations listeners, in some tralia. He served with distinction showed that
The wireless beginner should at the war, and was awarded the cases, had Cause for complaint. have available certain tools, and, if Military Cross. He rose to the Perhaps the most pronounced cause possible, a place where he will be rank of Lieut.-Colonel. At the con- was that, during certain hours of able to work undisturbed. The clusion of hostilities Mr. Malone the day, detailed descriptions of tools are few, and consist of pliers, spent some time in Great Britain racing and other sporting events brace and drills, a Ale, and
aatudying the latest methods of were being broadcast from nearly screwdriver. That so much may be wireless telegraphy. In 1920, when all the stations at the same time. done with so few implements in the control of wireless, which had The evidence disclosed that part of remarkable, but this is not the only been placed with the Naval Board the cause of this uniformity was remarkable feature of wireless, as under the War Precautions Act, the desire of the station to escape will be seen later.
was restored to the Postmaster- utilising items upon which copy- The beginner should possess a General's Department, Mr. Malone right royalties were payable. These number of boxes wherein to keep was appointed to the position of items tended to exhaust the limit hia gear, and the contents of these Controller of Wireless, to take beyond which the station must pay should be methodically arranged. charge of the new department. an additional rate to the Austra Wire of all kinds can be kept in Later Mr. Malone was appointed to lasian Performing Rights Associa one box; nuts, bolts and screws in the position of Chief Manager of tion, Ltd. The Commission had another; toolą ir a third.
Telegraphs and Wireless.
To have to transport a job from The minimum salary fixed for the one room to another every time a position of Chief Inspector of trifling job has to be done is Wireless is £729, and the maximum nuisance. To have to pack away salary £792.
all one's gear every time a task is interrupted is equally annoying. The happy worker is he who is able to leave his job and pick it up again without moving a single item.
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TESTS FOR GRID LEAKS.
found that in view of all the cir- cumstances the amount of the licence fees which ultimately reach- ed the hands of the Australasian Performing Rights Association, Ltd., was, in its opinion, out of proportion to the service rendered or value given by the association, or the author whom it represented, To test, a grid leak, the method and was an advantage that in the whereby one is substituted for an. majority of instances was never other cannot be excelled. Appara-contemplated as likely to belong to tus required to scientifically and ac- either the author or composer or the curately test the resistance of a assigneo of the copyright. Recog- "The first hostility between wire-leak is no expensive and intricatenising that every phase of the less and the Church has been broken that it would be folly to buy and popular taste must be catered for, down, but there is more to be done use it when a "spare" can be kept and giving due weight to the evid- yet in making the fullest use of the for emergency or test purposes. ence which was tendered complain- great opportunity which broadcast- If there is occasion to suspecting of the monotony of the pro- ing presents. The first timidity the grid resistance, whether in case grammes -- too much sporting has been overcome; it is now the of 'Don-oscillation or "frying" | Information, too much jazz music, place of courageous policy to turn noises, just remove it and put the too many talks-the Commission what seemed to be a rival into the spare into its place. If the trouble was of opinion that the broadcast÷ best of friends." Optimus, in the continues its source can be looked ing companies had maintained fair "Westminster Gazette."
fur elsewhere.
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
19
10
13
14
15
17
18
20
24
38
142
15
146
47
48
49
150
52
53
HORIZONTAL
1-Turl
B-To baffle 11-The practice of
spying 14-Berpent (pl.) 15-A large tub 17-To merit 12-A pennyweight
(abbr)
20-Part of a flower 22-Allow
30
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HORIZONTAL (Cont.) VERTICAL (Cont.),
|42-Affirmative answer 10-One who makes
43-Breaks suddenly
44-Perform
45-Any open space 47-Double
48-At liberty 49-Queor 62-Avarics
53-Badily fasting
VERTICAL
2-Cried
23-Electrical Engineer 3-Draft animal
(abbr.)
24-Vogue 28-Chemical symbot
tor Iron
27-To return to
frequently 29-Plunderer 81-50 32-Mix
$3-6harper
35-Decided
37-Indefinite article 39-Maken deeper 40-Megative answer
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terlan (abbr.) · B-To disposSCUS
C-To restrict the
Inheritance of Sands to particular clase 7-Southern State
(abbr.)
B-To grow old 9-To distributo
10-One who walks in
water
12-Vow
13-Come in
Eweet
18-Allusion
20-Adherents of an old. Persian religion 21-Free from rentraint 124~Discovered
20-Short lettare 2B-Pronoun 30-Boy's name
(familar)
33-An arctic canos [34-Leased
35-Stationa
85-Lavished
extravagant
fondness
j89-To pledge personal
просп
142-One who forotalis
evente
44-Part of a circle. (pl.) 46-A single apot (48–Part of a fish 160-Civil Engineer
(abbr.)
181-Muslost nota
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES
Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horisontally or vertically or both.
(The solution of the chove cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue awng with a new cross-word ́`· puzzle.)
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