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With regard to the question of render, ing wireless sets even more self-contained than they have been in the past, it may be said that much remains to be done In in connection with frame aerials. many cases the erection of an outdoor aerial is inconvenient and objectionable, and, indeed, there are many thousands and snatches, of speech, of potential wireless users who have no but with music, with lectures, and even facilities for large serials To América with dramatic plays now offer an unend-frame aerials are used already to a far NEW ROUND OF "LEATHER PUSHERS" (ROUND 29). ing source of entertainment. It must be greater extent than in Great Britain. conceded that the British Broadcasting Company, whose function it is during most bouts of the day to provide some thing to which any inhabitant of the British Isles can listen with pleasure has done its work exceedingly well, and to-day there are very few districts in the British Isles to which its programme can- not be made to penetrate by means of a receiving get, neither costly to buy, expensive to keep up, nor dificult to band le
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Not only do they take up a minimum of room, enabling also the set to be trans- ported from place to place very convenient ly, but they also promote when properly applied that selectivity which is very much appreciated by the ordinary wireless user. This is because they have a direc tional quality. Mady people living close to a broadcasting station wish to bear the programme of other stations uninter- ruptedly, in spite of the local transmis sion. In the majority of cases, especially We must bear in mind that, in spite in London, it is not easy to do this, even of the enormous strides which broadcast when special rejector circuits are em ing has already made, the whole pro ployed. These latter, in most cases, tend position is still in its very early stages. to impair signal strength somewhat ser Just as the motorists of the present day iously, so that although they cut out the find it hard to believe that those who local station they do not permit the pioneered automobilism in the late nine- more distant one to be brought up with From the receiving ties could regard the crude contraptions sufficient volume. upon which they rode as all that was point of view the frame aerial is un- best and most up-to-date, so the listener doubtedly less effective than the plain of the near future will wonder how we outdoor wire, but if the set itself be could have ever regarded the past year increased in eficiency this disturbance as one characterised by great wireless largely vanishes. Une is glad to see that advancement. Yet there can be no doubt some of the firms are now producing, re- that these last twelve months have wit-ceivers (though naturally these are of the Dessed developments of great and far more expensive pattern) in which every- reaching importance. At the Wireless thing necessary is contained within a Exhibition which, organised. by the simple cabinet there are no external bat National Association of Radio Manufacteries nor is any serial or earthlead turers, opened at the Albert Hall on Sept. required. The frame aerial has undoubt- 27th, it is possible that some visitor edly enormous potentialities, but it might have been disappointed at nut and would seem that these as yet have not ing indications of revolutionary deve. been realised to the extent that they ought
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The growing necessity for components such as are demanded by amateur con. Clearly the quality which is of overstructors to be made to a higher standard whelming importance in the future of accuracy has been well realised, and spread of wireless is purity of reproducit is significant that whilst a certain tion. There are, of course, a large nug-number of firms have adopted pro her of interested amateurs to whom the gramme in which cheapness is predomin- technique of radio science is a perennial ant, those bearing more important and delight, and whose object is ever to search recognised names have with one accord out and collect distant and more dis gone in for an improvement in technique tant stations. It will be admitted at which is well worth while, even though once that this reaching out into the ether it may imply a slightly higher initial has a fascination all of its own, but for cost. every one who is prepared to dedicate his receiving set to such a purpose, there are a score who want in their own homes. to enjoy, under conditions of purity and clarity of production, the concerts of the local broadcasting station, Accordingly the most important improvements in the generality of well-made wireless sets is an enhanced musical capability combined with an increased simplicity in control. In many sets which in the pass have given disappointment the attempt has beer made by the enterprising designer to ob tain, as it were, too high an efficiency. la producing a circuit and an arrange ment of component parts that attain to the necessary standard of sensibility, he has, infortunately, though unavoidably, introduced a serious disadvantage in this, that such a set is inherently difficult to control. Everyone is familiar with the outery that periodically arises about the unwelcome squeaks and howls which are buried into the ether because 30 mary La are kept in a state of violent oscil. lation. There can be litle doubt that this radio crime." unforgivable though it may be at the moment of its commis sion, springs from innocence and igcor- ance rather than from any other cause, and it is. in fact, due very largely to many sets being so contrived that only the expert can properly handle them This state of affairs has been seriously holding back wireless progress from a unified system of wireless communi- domestic point of view, and one is glad cation and direction finding is to be to know that serious efforts have been established on all the big main air lines. made to remedy it. The majority of the The scheme also provides that long higher-class receivers which will be ex-range machines shall be re-fuelled in the hibited at the forthcoming exhibition air from other machines at intermediate at the Albert Hall will be found to give stations. Passengers will be set, down reasonable degree of selectivity, com- and others taken on board by means of bined with genuinely simple methods of aeroplane, tenders which, while the ex- a reduced control, and by this means good results press fies temporarily at
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