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TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
The following programme will i» Grondenat to-day train the Hong Kong* Broadcasting Station 2.B.W. on Jan ur;
6-8 p.m.-Chinese Recorded Pro- gramme.
8 p.m.-A Relay from the a‚Â Empress of 'Japan of the Recep- tion on the ogension of her Maiden Voyage.
At intervals during the Pio- gramme, Dance Numbers will be broadcast from the Studio.
9 p.m.-Weather Report. 10.30 p.m.-Close Down.
AUSTRALIAN LOAN PURPOSES.
Federal Premier on Optimism.
Mr. Scullin, the Commonwealth Premier, speaking with regard to the Federal Internal Loan of £10,000,000, said that the money was wanted for the
purpose carrying out 21 programme public works (says an Exchang Telegraph mesange from Car berra). The issue was made on Juno 16.
The loan's success was a mat ter of national importance. Dur, ing the past year, overseas inves tors had shown unwarranted as of nervousness regarding security behind Australian loans; and nothing was more reassuring to them than evidence that Aus tralians themselves had faith in their country and were prepared
ancial difficulty.
FOR THE WIRELESS ENTHUSIAST.
Its Use As Detector.
THE PENTODE.
STENODE RADIO CLAIMS.
Vision and Speech Over One Wave-Length.
18
ה
A MEAN ASSAULT." FINE BRICKWORK.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND MR. BALDWIN.
Further claims of the possibilities of the invention of Dr. James Robin.able men and women. son, known
the Stenode Radiostat, are made. In a report which the inventor and Mr. Percy Harris, assistant general manager, have just made to the proprietors of the British Radiostat Corporation,
A BUILDING DEFICIENCY IN SINGAPORE.
89 A
London, June 28. In all the latest important Mr. Lloyd George, the Liberal buildings in Singapore, artificial lender, addressing a Liberal ga stone has been used very success- den party at Kensington, slash fully for facing, and although ingly. replied to Mr. Baldwin's re- this method of treating the ex- ference to the Liberal candidates terior of the building has result- He described the attack as aed in a pleasing and dignified' wanton, unprovoked, mean and finish, we should like to see an diagraceful assault on 500 honor example of fine brickwork
Eet off and relief, to the grey [Mr. Baldwin, in the course of granitie finish of our most modern attack on Lord Rothermere, business and public buildings, controlling shareholder in the saye the, Singapore Architects Daily Mail, and Lord Beaverbrook, Journal.
Brickwork so far as Singapore controlling shareholder in the Daily Express, and founder of the is concerned threatens to become Empire free trade movement, for a lost art, and we have grave- It has already been stated that their support of Conservatives, doubts as to how many-local-ar- the application of the invention will said:
chitectural draughtsmen are cap- "Mr. Lloyd George's candidates able of drawing revolutionise land-line telegraphy,
an olevation of stage many wireless experimenters,
(Liberal) at the last election sny six courses, and a plan of two over on the look-out for efficiency, and it is announced devoted their attention to its use as apparatus has been constructed en smelt. These will stink. We (the or three alternate courses, in Eng
Conservatives) have been chal-lish Cross. Flemish, Yorkshire or A detector not..only in Britain but abling the, number of channels opeenged. We have been told that Monk bond, and as to the Chin-
ated on land lines to be multiplied the gloves are off. also in Singapore as long ago by a factor which is far in excess
If they are,
ese so-called brick-layer (God save as 1929. The higher amplification
The Daily Express article was incorrect when credit was given tộ William P. Lear, of Chicago, re! garding the use of a-pentude as detector. It can be considered as an inravation in Americh...but_not_in Britain. Although a pentode WOB
primarily designed for the output
with any other valve created interest in its
Limited.
now that an
fuctor of a pentode when compared of the present requirements of the
press, naturally
is also being Special research use as a
application of the Stenode Radiostat carried on in connection with the system to television. It is well- known that a satisfactory service by
appears
telvision "involves the simultaneous
for
we will see who has dirty hands. I accept the challenge, as I ac- cepted the T.UL.C.'s, and I call the bluff."]
the name), who would be capable of building in such bonds, he is yet to be found.
The lack of proficient bricklay. "Coarse and Vulgar."
ers is undoubtedly due to the uni versal and pernicious use of plas not merely offensive, but coarse tion of the Devil to encourage, by "Mr. Baldwin's language was ter and stucco, which is an inven-
and valgar in the extreme. When hiding their bad work, the lazy
detector. Normally, the impedance to be very high but in actual working it is nowhere near that figure. When calculating out- put circuits its 1.C. impedance' should be taken as 5,000 and in the reception of pictures and sound. At detecton section
the present time experimental trans- not higher than missions of television are using two Lot surprised. 20,000.
wavelengths, one
television To use it as a detector it is not signals and the other for sound. even necessary to alter the circuit
When the Stenode Radiostat sys- in any way except an extra lead to the high tension battery. Readers who are interested can try it with out any difficulty. Just Insert it in place of the usual detector valve. Connect a lead or wire to the extra Radiostat system, it is claimed. element terminal at the side and supplies the one thing lacking for a puf it to a 10 volt tapping on the successful television service. H. T. battery) Reaction is very
Demonstrations have been given
tem is used it will be possible for
televisión and
both
telephonic
signals to be transmitted in the channel now exclusively used for the
television signals. The Stenodo
I read it I said to myself, I am end incompetent workman. Ros- Mr. Baldwin al-sibly the scarcity of 'quailfled-ar- ways expressed a preference for chitects. in the early days of the society of pigs,' said Mr. Lloyd | Singapore. also had a good deal George.
to do with the. matter, to say no- is that he is afflicted with an ex-
"The trouble with Mr. Baldwin thing of badly made and under- burnt Chinese bricks, but those aordinary, morbild self-complace enty, inducing the belief that his erities are malignant, malodorous
Creatures unable to appreciate his
sterling worth."
The truth was that there was no other publie man less entitled to assume airs of superiority.
days are past, and it is possible to get in Singapore multi-colour-
ed bricks equal to any produzed
atmosphere and brilliant sunshine of Singapore calls for splashes of colour here and there, so let us. hope that the use of patterned
in Britain or Holland. The clear
eral in the near future.
to rally to its aid in time of fin. easy. A few volts more or less may to certain important German groups The only two things Mr. Baldwin | brickwork may become more. gen-
make an improvement owing to for whom apparatus is being manu- varying factors but 10 is the aver-factured for experimental operation age. This tapping alters the im in connection with the public broad pedance of the pontodo.
casting service In that country.
Australians, he said, would at ways meet their full obligations to
simists.
Care of Upholstery.
Never use gasoline or auy drying" liquid to clean or preserve leather upholstery. The dirt can be removed by applying a sponge wet in soap and water. A leather or harness dressing of approved re- putation of neatsfoot oil with a little of the required colour in it can be used as a preserving and soiten-
creditors at home and abroad.
The first part of the article is The loan's success would restore
true. The Loftin-White amplifier canadence to overseas investors. is really 講 new departure in The Melbourne Age states that amplifying circuits but only made Australia at present is in, the possible by the introduction of trough of a troubled sea of ex alternating current operation. The perience dividing citizens more or first experiments were carried out less consciously into two main in 1914. Although results were ob- categories of optimists and pestained the circuit were unworkable In practice diving to uncontrollable grid bias as there was no grld re- turn to filament and causing the valves to block.
In its present form it can be used in push-pull or parallel output cir- ing agent. cuits and I have every confidence that it will bust all other systems input valve the gain is so high that of intervalve coupling. With one
"Numerically. the latter are fractional" it says, but they are persistently rozal, and their epinions are invariably assessed at far more than their worth, be cause of a strange human tr dency to associate pessimism with wisdom. The optimist is apt to be dismissed us short-sighted and shallow-minded. Of course, there ja no justification for either form of appraisement. The Australian is essentially an optimist."
"There is much to be said for the conscious effort
being made to foster an optimistic spirit. At the present moment that spirit la 'needed, and it is
now
the obligation of everf Austra Bian citizen to cultivate it."
MYSTERY STATION.
LOCATED WITH DIRECTION FINDER.
'Research is credited by federal agents with the discovery of an unlicensed radio station believed used by bootleggers to communicate with ships at sea.
watt valve with no fear of distor- the output can be led in direct to 50
tlof
is that of talking picture outfits. There will be no intervalve trans- formers or other coupling devices with their usual break-down faults. Distortion will be unknown and the usual cascade of valves will dis-
appear.
The first field that will be invaded
Shortwave Problems. Before shortwave-receivers-could. | come into popular use they must be made to operate with very nearly. the same ease and convenience as a modern broadcast receiver. For the last few years greater interest was given to listening in to short- wave broadcasting and as more and more stations were erected the need is more
than ever felt for an all mains receiver. It was necessary for such a receiver to hold its own against any of the battery-operated sets for general amateur and experi- montal reception. This is now pos efble since the introduction of A. C.; valves and as fa usual in the wire- less industry practical types were introduced in the U.S.A. The re- sult is very satisfactory and meste the requirements of the non- technical section of the public. An all-mains set requires practically, no attention. In fact once it is Install- The device used was a directioned the owner can forget it but when firder, a small set with a loop an so inclined the pressure of a switch tenna, a number of which had been puts the set. In operation and the
Search for the illegal station was started four weeks ago when Wendell Patten, coast guardsman, picked up strange signals while listening in on the station radio set. Discovery of the station's location seemed an almost hopeless task, but Juno 6 federal agents ralded an apparently vacant house in Brooklyn and found the station that invest gatore said would be there.
set up in various parts of the city: twiddle the knoba
only work necessary is to
Calculations were made on the basis
WIRELESS
to "bring
*COUNTERWAVES."
of sound volume. After experiment in any station that may be ing for several weeks, Hines drawn transmitting at that time. There
is, however, A on a map of Brooklyn and based on
little patience the sound volume crossed in front required as it takes a few days or evenings before one really gets Into of 1759 Troy Avenue, M.
Although the direction Ander said the fine art of tuning. The whole the station must be there, the secret of full loudspeaker reception federal men found an apparently depends on the exact manipulation. of the reaction condenser. Once un- vacant two-storey frame house, on the roof of which no radio wires derstood it is simple-Singapore could be seen. For several days, Free Press. however, the agents lay in' wait and noted, that two men would sneak into the building each night before the signals started.N, AL Bolshevik propaganda through the They finally raided the house and Soviets Moscow, or Odessa, wireleas found a set carefully secreted, and broadcasting - law, a nuisance; In an operator. While they were there. Roumania. It is, specially directed another operator arrived. The an- to Bessarabla, and the teamanian tennes" had been concealed in the Government have decided to open a attic and the short wave sender in | broadcasting station in Chiscipu, ta the collar. The transmitter fand that region to counteract it. Thọ tubes were hidden in a side wall of station will not merely broadcast the house. The two men were held counter propaganda, but as it will In $7,600 ball each on charges of | have the same, wave length, as the operating thlicensed slator.usalan atations, it can prevent the They gave their names as James Leo:| Bolshevik transmissions from being Palkey, 28, and Harry C. Willis, 42. heard. 16
FOR
the settlement of the Americani ever personally accomplished were debt
which committed Britain the meanest things ever done by to £40,000,000 yearly for fifty a great political leader. years, without an effort to make Baldwin Attacks Rothermere. Britain's own debtors pay, and "That Interesting nobleman. the payment of a £23,000,000 sub- Lord Rothermere, has been saying sidy to conlowners to put off the that Britain is in for a period of strike, which was not put off. revolution, said Mr. Baldwin, ad- The same combination of news-dressing Conservatives of Dorset, paper proprietors which now "If there is a revolution, Lord offend Mr. Baldwin's delicate Rothermere will be the first man postrila. made him Prime Minis-to go to the South of France." ter in 1923-24.
He added that independent Mr. Baldwin was fickle, inert, newspapers throughout the coun-. and resourceless except when his try condemned Lord Rothermere's own position was challenged. His attempt to dictate to the Crown attack on the Liberals was one of and the Government.
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