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RADIO TOPICS
WIRELESS SERVICES.
STATEMENT BY MARCONI
CU.
London, Dec. 4.
WIRELESS PACT,
BENEFITS FOR THE PUBLIC.
SUPER-HETERODYNE
A TALK ON HOW IT WORKS.
Canberra, Dec. 9.
"Oh! Bill, got a minute? What's The Marconi Co. has' Issued B A statement was issued to-day by the difference between the super- statement pointing out that the Mr. W. M. Hughes, M.H.R., as
heterodyne and other receivers? I company has not been invited to member of the directorate of Amal-take it that there is a difference, participate in the discussions be- gumated Wireless, on the. new because those sets are always tween the cable companies and the agreement, which, he stated, sub-spoken of with a feeling ston, 106, ; Government. The company dis-atituted the payment of a fixed sum of awe by the average amateur." closes that shortly it will inaugur- of 3/ per listener's licence for the
"Yes, son, there is a difference. ate an American beam service. The royalties of 5 per licence and 12/6 Putting it briefly, a super-het. re- statement deprecates talk that a per valve socket on receiving sets. ceives the Incoming high-fre- rate war might injure wireless, but This would be of considerable ad-
them, quency currents, detects anys that it would be fatal to the vantage to the public, as the royal- transfers them to a higher wave cable services, owing to the pre- ties were waived, and the company length, detects them again, and sent cheapness of installing and quota of the licence fees was re- then amplifies them. If you've got operating beam stations. When duced from 5 to 3/ per licence a while to spare I'll tell you-or facsimile transmission le perfected per annum. This would stimulate perhaps I should say I'll endeavour substantial reductions in operating business, and dealers and manu- to tell you why it is so. costs and rates are certain, there- facturers would, therefore benefit: fore the standardisation of rates The new agreement provided for and the restriction of wireless is a the payment of terminal charges by minor role to keep up the rates. the company, which it was estimat- The statement points out the vul- nerability of the cable during the war. Britain cut all the German cables, and Germany cut the Bri tiah Pacific line, the break lasting for six months, but German wire- leas from Nauer continued through- out the war. It adds that the event of a war in the Pacific naval pre- ponderance would not prevent the cutting of all Australian cables while only the eccupation of Bri- tish territory would stop wireless.
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The statement emphasises that fading will be overcome, and the present effects will be avoided if Empire wireless is worked as unit, and the scattered parts are linked up with beam stations. The Marconi company is prepared to submit a scheme for this purpose, and also is prepared to co-operate with the cable companies providing the development of wireless is not restricted.
New Company's Proposals.
Sydney Dec. 11.
Sam Pickard. of Kansas, former secretary of the Federal Radle Commission. who A been p pointed by President Coolidge to sucrero Henry A Bellows, of Min nesuta, who resigned He was for merly esiet of the radio division of the Department of Agriculture.
"Every one knows that it is dim- cult to magnify short wave length signals by employing several stages of high-frequency amplification. The great obstacle is the obtaining of reasonable amplification and selectivity with stability and case! of operation. For if the set is to be really effective it is necessary to employ circuits which can be sharply tuned the desired
signals, and then the difficulty of tuning the many circuits is met with, and usually the whole ampll- fer oscillates unless it is treated very carefully, or rather skilfully. The instability, of course, results from the stray couplings in the re- ceiver, such as the self-capacity of the valves and the wire sand com- ponent parts. As the wave-length is reduced, these effects have be- come more noticeable, because the current which passes through condenser increases as the wave- length is reduced, and so the reac-| tion effect increases,
"Now signals on a higher wave- length, say of 2,000 to 10,000 me- tres, can be amplified comparative- ly easily, with both good amplifica- tion and selectivity. It follows, then, that signals of a fixed wave- length of 'say, 6,000 meres, could be dealt with to give good results, length of Bay, 6,000 metres, could be adjusted to give maximum am- plification on that wave-length, and the selectivity could be made as de- sired. Reaction could also be in- troduced without rendering the in- strument difficult to control.
"The super-het, system of re- caption enables us to take advan- tage of this desirable state of allirs by changing the frequency of the
Mr. G. A. Taylor, president of the Association for Developing Wire- less in Australia, stated last night that he had lodged an application with the Prime Minis er (Mr. Bruce), asking for permission to establish in Australia a new wire- less station for commercial traffic with Britain and other parts of the world. "Esimates have been pre- pared," said Mr. Taylor, "showing that it would be commercially pós- sible to reduce the rates of beam messages 00 per cent. below the present charges, and yet run a wire- less station in Australia for inter-ed would bring in £40,000 per an-incoming signal to a frequency national profit. There, is sufficient num. This could not be done under which can be easily handled, thus Anance behind the new proposal to the old agreement. The agreement making possible the use of many ensure a first-class radio station be- provided a new arrangement for stages of amplifican at radio ing established in Australia for coastal services, under which the frequency, the amplified signals world communication. The Commonwealth paid the company, afterwards being detected in the cangements for the establishment 54.600 per annum to carry on the usual manner and amplified at au- of this station are well advanced, service, and received 30 per cent dio-frequency as may be necessary. bat nothing further can be done of the revenue derived from it. It In other words, incoming signala on until the Federal Government has was estimated that, on last year's short wavelength are changed into given permission for the erection revenue, this would be
signals of a pre-determined long! of the station. One of the guar- Up to the present this service had wave-length, so that they may be antees that will be given to the shown a loss. The agreement was dealt with a carefully adjusted Government will be that this pro- a good one, said Mr. Hughes, for longwave amplifier. The funda- posed station will be so operated both the public and the
mental principle is based on the "beata," that it will give continuous and re- ment. It did in a simple, econo- phenomenon known as liable service; and that it will not mical, and practical way what the which occurs when two vibrationa
Commission sought interfere will any other radio sta-Royal
to of a slightly different wave-length tion. The object of the promoters achieve by a roundabout, costly, or frequency interact. This may and unpracticable method. The is to prevent any combination be-
manner, when two tuning forks are ing made with the controllers of royalties were no longer a factor be noticed, in a more mechanical in the problems with which the caused to vibrate, one at a slightly beam wireless and the cable com-[ panies to maintain the present high public and the trader had to deal. different rate from the other, when re- a sensitive ear con detect three rates for inter-Empire and inter-All the difficulties had been national communication. The Gov-moved, and the way was open to tones, two corresponding to the ori ernment will be given a guarantee wireless progress in every direc-ginal notes, and the third com-
THE HAGUE TO JAVA.
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MELBOURNE,
£12,000.
Govern-
AUDIBLE AT LAST IN LONDON.
pounded of the interference or "beats" between the other two, a note much lower than the others.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1928.
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,)
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HORIZONTAL (Cont.) : VERTICAL (Cont.)
1-Used for holding a |46-To throw
dag
6-Perform again,
60-Part of, verb: “to ba 60-Paralyala
9-To Increase in size | 68-The base of suit 10-External
18-To out off
14-Half
18-Incorrect 16-To let forth vlotantly. 19-Staggera
to
20-A boy 21-A sword 22-Consume 24–ía abia 26-Blemish 2-Talk Incessantly 30-of high temperatura| $1-A limb of the body 33-A lit 6-Bear
#7-Short, quick stroke 28-To ite in wait 39-To question 40-An oven for baking
pottery 41-anugly comfortable 42-Brush 44-Girl'a nama (short) 46-A grain 47-Noles
48-A torn pleca af
cloth
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61-8ource of light B3-A.resinoua
substance
64-Nolas
Co-Cossse living €7-Jutting rock.
(England)
66-To regard with
respect.
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19-A compound with one or more
electrone
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70-Evan
71-An English post
VERTICAL
1-Crippled
24-Profix meaning
with
26-Two or more metalo
combined
27-To waken abruptly 29-Strength
30-One who walks long
distances
31-A back atrast 32-To wash out $4-Endeavor
80-To employ
87-A petty falsehood 41-A plant of the
mustard famliy 42-To orr 43-To pet
48-Remains
2-One banished from 47-Excavated
home
3-To plant seide 4-To throw
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(pl.) 17-Highert ault in
Garde
18-To hang down 21-Day of the work
(abbr.)
|23-A flap
40-To yawn- 81-A trap
82-A dalty of woode and herdsTM (Roman Myth) 64-Transmission of
sound thru the afr 166–A'great deal
57 That which la
worshipped |68-Obtained from
sheep?
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
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quency. This is really the mest important part of the set, and the coupling units must be very care- fully made, and, above all, very carefully matched and designed. It thus requires practically labora- tory equipment to construct this. part of the receiver. Transformers are generally used, although the tuned anode system is employed, From here it is all plain sailing, na the amplified currents are convey- ed to the second detector, which operates in the usual manner. The output from the detector is then amplified in any well-known man- ner at audio-frequency.
"This systemi, it may now be ob- served, has only two tuning con- trols, namely, the tuner and the oscillator, and may be used with a loop aerial. In fact, it is at its best when used with a loop. There
are many varieties of super-
EMPIRE SCHEME.
MARKED IMPROVEMENT.
that all official traffe will be handled by the new station on basis which will produce 8 per cent. on the cost of erecting and main-
Again the phenomenon may be ob- receiver. Suppose the frequency of taining the station, and this will
served in an ordinary receiving get, the incoming signal was one million heterodyne, but they are all based assure a reduction of more than 50
in which is included a regenerative (or a wave length of three hundred on the same principles as outlined per cent, on present charges. This,
means. If the set is in a state of metres), and that the beat fre- above. Satisfied, son?" and other matters,' added Mr.
oscillation, the familiar varying quency of the incoming signal re- London, Dec. 4. Taylor "will be considered
that corresponding to aj whistle will be heard when the dials quired w At Inst 3LO, Melbourne, Was radio conference to he opened in audible at Keston station, between oscillations generated in the set tres, that is, fifty thousand cycles;
are rotated. This is due to the wave-signal of six thousand the Town Hall on Tuesday next." 6.45 and 8 o'clock, Greenwich mean beating with the incoming oscilla- we would then have to produce in time. The announcer's statement tions, and the compounded effect the oscillator a frequency of 950,000 RADIO TELEPHONY.to the effect that next Sunday 3LO producing oscillations at audio- to 1,050,000, so that the difference would reduce the wavelength from frequency, which is generally below would produce the desired results. 36 to 32 metres is hailed with satis-six thousand cycics per second. As If the frequency of the incoming faction by experts of the British the frequency of the oscillation in signal was six hundred metres, or
London, Dec. 4. Broadcasting Corporation, who ex- the set is varied, so the beat fre- at a frequency of half a million, pect that it will be more possible to quency is varied and the
oscillator frequency would note the London, Dec. 7.
The "Daily Telegraph" states Telegraphic advices received sion to-night the music was
relay. Throughout the transmle changes, the two original oecil- have to be 450,000 or 550,000. From that although operations at the London from Java report that the bumpy to attempt to
100lations, being probably at one or this it will be seen that for any Chelmsford station have been sus- first experiment to transmit a Press portions of the programme
but two million cycles, are not audible. signal there coul! always be two pended temporarily, there is mark
con- ed improvement in transmitting and news service by radio, telephony heard by telephone from Keston by signals are selected by a suitable trolling the oscillator frequency. receiving Empire broadcasting, and
In the tuner the desired incoming distinct settings of the dial from The Hague was highly suc- cessful.
a party of Australians in London. arrangement of coils and conden- Fortunately the beat frequency or it is expected that before Christmas Not only receiving stations in Way," was good, together with some to the circuit of the first valve, of the incoming or original wave; ciprocal programme.
A musical selection, "Over the sera, and they are then passed on wave retains all the irregularities the station will be ready for re A spaced Java received the messages, but parts from a musical comedy. There known as either the first detector or that is, the voice and music modu- aerial, spread over a givan Aren, is newspaper offices in Cairo, Bombay, were indications that the
before. The expected to overcome fading on Shanghal which,
trans- the frequency changer. previ- mitter was
Coupler lation will he ously were warned, listened in. though the carrier wave was
modulating badly, efther to the grid or plate circuit o
signals, of which the frequency has short waves. Scarcely less baffling, The Java offices report that the first, sistently strong,
con- this valve is the circuit of been changed now pass on to the however, is the financial aspect of two sections were good, and the
separate local oscillator, and this part of the set which is known as a permanent Empire service. third was excellent, even the voices
is tuned so as to give a frequency pliber, and which consists of a the intermediate frequency am-
Mr. Eekereley says that the Bri which, when combined with tha
tish Broadcasting Corporation is The experiment lasted two hours, telephony, and better than inter- frequency of the incoming signal, series of stages of radio-frequency willing to put water into the and the listeners say that the re- town calls. The speed was 60 will produce a beat fragency suit-amplification all arranged to deal pump and start working, but it can- able to the following stages of the efficiency with the changed fre- not undertake to provide the well."
ond
of the speakers being recognisable.
ception was equal to the local town words a minute.
relay,
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