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WIRELESS NOTES.
FEEDING THE VALVE WITH “JUICE.”
LOOKING AFTER THE H.T. BATTERY.
Despite the many advantages claimed for the mains unit by which the current for radle is fed from the electrical mains, by far the majority of set-users still employ the original method of independent batteries. Although lacking the convenience of the mains unit there is much to be said in favour of the chemical-action source of supply.
Portability, a greater degree of safety, lower initial cost, and an assured steady flow of pure D.C. currents are points that are likely to keep dry batteries and small necumilators on the market in spite of mains units.
.
The latter, even of the best make, are not always suitable for sen- sitive short-wave sets, fluctuations
[By "COHERER."}
The voltage of each cell is 1.3, thus it will be seen that the usual voltage 60 volt dry battery will be made up of 4 of these cells.There are different methods of ensuring perfect action, and in some cases cther solutions are provided to keep the casential chemicals in the necessary damp state.
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King's Gift to Radio for Blind Fund. Sir Bedthcroft Towse, V.C., chairman of the National Institute
for the Blind, was informed by Lörd Stamfordham last month, that the King wished the entire profits from the sale of the gramophone record of his speech broadcast at the open- ing of the Naval Conterence to be given to the British Wireless for the Blind Fund. The record was made while the speech was being delivered.
Mr. Winston Churchill's appeal, broadcast on Christmas Day, mot with a response which now exceeds £11,000. The radio trade have offer- ed sets of a value of £10,000, but the total is still inadequate to carry through the proposed scheme.
rated "capacity has been obtained. Or most valves there is printed the anode consumption, so it is quite an easy matter to ascertain the drain on the high tension battery. As a general rule it is advisable to
Tre British. Wireless for the use the smaller unit battery for currents not higher than 10 milliam- Blind" Fund was organised to pro- peres, and the triple capacity for vide as far as is practicable every current exceeding 10 and not ex-blind person in the United Kingdom' The Correct, Battery,
ceeding 30 miliamperes. Beyond and Northern Ireland with a wire- Apart from the voltage another this some other form of supply, less net. aspect to be taken into considera such as accumulators tion when choosing a battery is its units, is necessary. If in any doubt capacity. To discharge a battery as to which type of battery Fou are using, it is safe to calculate at more than its normal rate-that is, to give a load to which it is the small unit as occupying 25 unequal will not only considerably cubic inch per volt, the figure for shorten its life, but will set up the tripla capacity being 5 cubic those queer cracklings known as inch.
or mains
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Ex-Convict's Broadcast.
A letter protesting against the coming broadcast by an ex-convict was brought by a Press representa-'i at Savor. Hill, when an official tive to the attention of the B.B.C. stated that the writer had a mis- taken conception of the matter.
"I is important to remember,' this official said, that last year we had a series "of talks on prison reform by prison governors, pro
others. The ex-convict's, talk really bation officers, psychologists, and falls into that series.
"
"It is late only because we were not able to find a suitable man at
been asked to broadcast, not in order to give him an opportunity of glorifying himself, nor for the sake of sensationalism, but because we felt that the public ought to have an opportunity of hearing the views of a man who has actually experi has reformed his ways of living, enced prison life. The man chosen and is now earning his living
"Ho has decided, as he will ex- honestly.
Outting Out Loss, in mains supply and generatorhome-made static, and which hum causing instability of control. are often erroneously considered to
Trouble with high tension supply Dealing first with the dry or Be the natural outcome of employ is frequently experienced where "block" type of battery, it is asing dry batteries for bigh tension loud-speaker extensions are em well to note the capabilities of the supply. Too often the dry cells. different types and sizes before suffer for the shortcomings of other ployed, wires being rua to various rooms from the loud-speaker ter- transformers.
minals. With the loud-speaker choosing one for the set under con components, often
Crackling can be caused by dry direct in the high tension circuit, sideration
batteries when properly used, but is usually the case, and the In effect, they are all made on the same principle, known as the it is very rare and will only take-off switch being in the lathe time. An ex-convict has since primary cell, differing only in oon-place when there is a bad councement circuit, it follows that, with struction. In general practice the tion or corrosion of soldered joints, faulty or old fexible wire used for outer case consists of à cylindrical due to bad production. or square cardboard vessel, lined
The Triple Capacity Battery, internally with zinc, in which is
To cope with multi-valve sets and placed a small carbon rod. A mixture of manganese peroxide, sets employing power-valves, the graphite, sal-ammonic, and zine current consumption of which is chloride is made into a stiff pasta rather high, manufacturers have, and crammed around and between during the last year or two, pro- The duced a "Triple Capacity" battery the carbon and the zine. nction is the same as the Leclanche capable of supplying two or three ar porous pot " cell, commonly times the current of the smaller used for telephone and bell circuits, unit at the same voltage or nres-transformer, suitable for this pur-plain in his talk, that an honest, are obtainable locally, and straightforward life is the best. The top of each cell is filled in
the connection is quite simple. The What better man." the official add- with sawdust and sealed, a small
present wires to the loud-speakered, could we have to give the vent hole being provided for the
terminals should be disconnected public an idea of prison as a convict escape of gases. The cells are next
sees it His remarks will not be and taken to the primary of the ecanected in series to
of a character to encourage emula- transformer, while the secondary of giving the required voltage, and
the transformer is connected to the tion of his career as a criminal, but loud-speaker terminals.
rather to net as a deterrent." the whole encased in a cardboard or tin box and sealed with a bitu- men compound, leaving exposed terminals tapped to different volt
ages.
sure. The same type of cell is em
played but, by the use of larger elements or a different arrange ment of connection known as series-
to a number parallel, which amounts
same thing, the capacity is in creased.
T.U.C. Takes Up Group-Listening.
The group listening movement in connection with wireless talks is constantly gaining strength, and in order to help it on the B.B.C. is lending receiving sets and load speakers to newly-formed groups for experimental purposes.
The Education Committee of the Trade Union Congress has just de- cided to form groups in various parts of England in time for the autumn talks, and in some cases one of the B.B.C. receiving-sets will be borrowed.
An official at Savoy Hill declared there was nothing political in the decision to lend these sets, and that no political body whatever would be considered in drawing up the series of talks. The object was to make the talks informative to everybody, whatever their politics.
If an educational committee of a Liberal organisation applied for assistance in organising a listening groap it would receive the same consideration as had been extended- to this Trade Unions Congress" Com- mittee.
Broadcasting the Grand National,
Elaborate arrangements of a novel kind are being made for the broad- ensting of the Grand National this renr. Visibility at Aintree is usual ly a bad at the time of the race that officials of the B.B.C. have gone through moments of great anxiety lest it should be impossible Tor the commentator to sec sufficient to maintain connected story. That was because only one com mentator, stationed at the finishing post, was employed.
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This year there will be two com- mentator, one Mr. R. C. Lyle, being at Topham's Stand, and the other, Mr. Hobbias, at the Canal Turn, where there are often. " incidents" of a kind almost impossible to des cribe from Topham's."
Mr. Hobbis will be accommodated on the roof of a B.B.C. lorry specially fitted up with micro- phones. Mr. Lylo will describe the race until the horses are approach- ing Becher's Brook, and then his colleague will take up the task.
But how wil: an understanding' be maintained between the two l That seemed an obstacle until the "novel iden of a portable receiving set at each commentating point, was thought of. Thus, when Mr. Lyle has done his part he will exclaim Now over to Canal Turn," and this message being picked up on the receiving set at Mr. Hobbit's elbow, he will take up the narrative, in turn, handing back to his col- league at Topham's when the horses pass beyond his range, and leaving Mr. Lyle to picture for listeners the last moments of the race...
There will be a central control point in charge of B.B.C. officials, and miles of wire are being laid for the occasion by the Post Office. This is the first time portable receivers have been brought into use in this way, and Savoy Hill is very hopeful that with their aid an old problem will be solved.
the
It would be just as uneconomical to use a triple capacity battery for a small set as vice versa, deteriora tion setting in long before the full-
Repertory Players, Although the R.B.C. gives trials. to many actors and actresses, it is only the few who master microphone technique sufficiently to be of value. The Corporation has, therefore. decided to form a repertory com- pany consisting of artists who have successfully acted before the micro- phone and have had the advantage of acting with each other, and to provide them with fairly constant
work.
The members of the company will be Lilian Harrisan, Barbara Couper, Gladys Young, Katherine Hynes, Andrew Churchman, Frank Denton, Philip Wade, Lionel Millard, and Harman Grisewood.
the extension wiring, leaks will develop and act as a steady drain on the high tension battery when the set is presumably "off." The remedies are simple, one being to of the H.T. battery when switching always unplug the positive terminal off, the other being to feed the
put transformer. Several makes of loud speaker circuit through an out.
pose
The same subject, high and low tension, will be dealt with next week, covering the use and action of accumulafors or secondary cells,
Reception on French Trains, Last month saw the inauguration of regular wireless reception on the French State Railways.
This decision is the outcome of a
series of experiments recently com- ducted by the Radio Fer Company
Free State High-Rower Station." A proposal for a new high-power wireless station in the Free State is likely to be officially approved. It will cost about £70,000 and will be erected near Athlone, taking about eighteen months to complete, The station, it is claimed, will give almost the entire country crystal-set reception.
Licences amount to approximately £13,000 a year, but £31,000 a year is received from the import duties on wireless sets and parts. A pro- posal is being considered to make on boat expresses "between Parisit obligatory on all dealers in wire, and Le Havre, with the approval of the French Postmister-General.
The official report described tho tests as thoroughly satisfactory, continuous
communication being maintained with an experimental. transmitter throughous cach jour
Individual headphones are. neg. fitted.
HAVE YOU HEARD THESE?
Here are lists of long-waVO and short-wave stations which should be picked up by anyone in Hong Kong who has a mode. rately good set suitable for re- ceiving such signals. Success in picking up these stations also depends very largely upon fay- ourable, atmospheric conditions. Readers are invited, to add to this list should they succeed in picking up any station not in- cluded in either of those lists.
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Kito. cycle
LONG-WAVE STATIONS.
Call Sign
K.Z.I.B. 1,153
K.8.M.9. 1,053
C.R.C.
1,070
967
045
$70
Wave length (Metres) Station
260 Manila 277. Shangbai 280 Tientain 310 Shanghai 320 Peping. 315 Tokyo J.0.A.K 350 Hiroshima J.O.F.K. 355 Hong Kong Z.B.W. 257 Bombay V.U.B 361 Supporo
308 Keijo
370 Nagoya
370.4 Calcutta
K.R. C. C.O.P.K.
250 840 240 J.O.I.K. 8:30 J.O.D.K. 920 J.O.C.K. 810 V.U.C 800.9 380 Kumamoto J.O.G.K. 790 300 Sendai. J.O.H.K. 770 395 Dairen J.D.A.K. 760 303 Ranzoon V.U.R. 754 400 Osuka J.O.B.K. 750
C.M.B.. 410 Canton.....
K.Z.R.M. 726
413 Manila
SHORT WAVE STATIONS.
STATION
CALL SIGN
KILO:
CYCLES
TE (Hona Kose) OF WORKING
4,434 Mon., Wed. & Fri.,,6 p.o. & 2 ata. *4,090 | | 6—10 p.
6.291. Not regular
7,142 Daily 6 30 p.m. & 11 p.m.
7,310 Not regalar.
7,730 Daily 1
8,108 Tues, & Fri., 9.p.m.-I am,
9,230 Not regular
8,503 Not regular
Fri, 3 am, Bati, 3 a.m. & 10 am.
47.86
Dobintzi (Germany)
A.F.K.
60.12 Khabarovak (Russia)
EAV
68.7
NGHED
A.G.J.
50.
Moscow
P.F.N..
6,000 Tue, Thurs., Sat., 6 p.m.
43,5
Rome
1.3.A
6,206 Hunday midnight
Perth
B.A.G.
41.3
Singapore!
31. 29.G
Eindhoven (Holland) 31.29 Sydney
Nairobi (Kenya) Bydney Bandoeng .27.8
Kootwijk (Holland) 38.8
Bangkok (Slam) 37. 32.5
Sydney 31.65 Melbourne 81.43 Schenectady 31.4
V.B.).A.D. P.C.L. HSARI, 2.8-L BLO.
W.2.X.A.R.
1,530 Daily 7.
P.C.J. 2.F.C. LO 2.M.E. P.L R.
9,500 Not regular
0,677 Midnight daily
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10,520 Not regular".
11,020 Midnight-3 m. daily
25.53
Manila 23.36 Bchenectady
18.88 Bandoeng
18.4
Bandoong
Bangkok
17.4 16.0 16.88 Haizon (Holland)
Kootwijk (Holland)
P.C.I
P.H.I
Koutwijk (Holland)
P.C.K
1474 Bandoeng 15.6 Nancy (Francs)· 13.93 Pittsburg
P.L.E.
10,361 Daily 8 m
WS.I.K.
24.5
16,3
Chelmsford (England) | 6.8.W.
KLX.R
W.2.1.0.
P.L.G.
P.L.F.
H.6.1.P.J.
11,751 7.30 pm, & am. daily, except
Saturday and Sunday
12,240 Nightly
12,860 4 am, Wed, Fri, Sat. 10,102 Daily 6.30 pan, to midnight
10,304) Daily 7 pm.
17,250 Dally 8 p.m. to midnight' 17,761 Sundays7 p.m. & midnight 17,769 Daily 10 p.m.
18,401 Each afternoon
19,220) Daily 6.30–7 p.m. :)
21540 Not regular
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Operas That Do Not Broadcast. Some operas will not broadcast, and "La Boheme" is one of them. Broadcast opera of this sort, if it were their only resource, would be the death of the star tenor and the prima donna. All the artificialities of the opera cuiminate in their parts, and, robbed of the glamour of the stage scene and the effective backing of the orchestra, the shout- ing and the emotionality come through in the ridiculous nakedness of their insincerity. What came past the microphone from 2 LO few weeks ago was neither music Dor drama. "Bohème," with its alternating extravagances of gaiety and sentimentality that are equal- ly unconvincing, is, perhaps, a peculiarly, bad example.
In spite of it all one could not but admire here and there some beautiful passages; Me Tudor Davies in particular was fortunately placed in being better clothed with orchestral accompaniment than most of the other singers. As a rule, Jone's choice was between being 'binated" by the soloist or, if one tuned down, hearing the soloist in isolation. The persons of the play needed, in fact, putting in their place, among, or even behind the orchestra. The soloists, considered by any purely musical criterion, are not the principals. They are hardly even first among equals so far as the music, which is everything. goes.
Paper Dielectric Condensers,
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A new range of fixed condensers has just been placed on the market by the Mullard Wireless Service Co., Ltd, and forms a very useful addition to the Mullard P.M. series of radio components. "Of the rolled type with paper dielectric, hermetic ally sealed into metal, containers, the condensers are finished in the company's standard matt black chanel. Three ratings, namely 1, 2 and 4mF. are available and meet most practical requirements, and form distinctly competitive line because the condensers are design. ed for working pressures of 250 volta D.C., whereas the majority of condensers at present on the British market and offered at substantially the same price are definitely rated for 200 volts only. Each condenser is tested at 800 volts D:C. between plates and flash tested at 1,000 volts A.C. between plates and case before feaving the works. The method of bermetically sealing together with special processes in manufacture render the condensers immune from damage due to climatic changes and they are, therefore, suitable for export to tropical countries.
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Lieut. James C. O'Dwyer, "of Malplaquer Barracks, Aldershot, was fined £10 at Brentford for driving a motor car negligently on the Great West Road, Hounslow. It was stated that 'in the early 'morn- ing he neglected signals, to stop,
a constable, nearly knocked over
When and crashed into a cyclist. stopped, ho said, "I must have been asleep. The first I knew of it was when I hit the cyclist, A solicitor said that the smell of petrol and the droning of the engine were conducive to sleep alter a long. day's driving.