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From Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, Ltd, we have received a copy of A.X, the official organ of the Hong Kong Amateur Radio Transmitting Society, hereafter to the referred, to as H.A.R.T.S.
It is a very brightly written production, rua by amateurs for amateurs, whose aim is co-operation and progress by constructive criti- eisin. X is not a magazine for the man whose knowledge of and interest in radio is confined to turning the knob when he wants to listen-in. D.X. is for thor keen radio amateurs, who are con- stantly experiturating themselves, and who make a point
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY
CHINESE IN A RADIO
PLAY.
A STORY OF LIMEHOUSE NEGOTIATIONS.
Chinese instrumentalists, singers. and actors appeared recently in a play by Victor Purcell and Lance Sieveking which was broadcast in England on the National trans- It was a play depicting mitters life in China as it really is, instead of the willow-pattern stuff uvially found in povels.
Mr. Sieveking, who produced the jplay, had a difficult and remark being able task in fixing up contracts kept informed regarding similar with the Chinese. Relating his ex- experiments by others. The Editor appeals to all interested in amateurperiences, he said that after dis radio-bath a receivers and trans covering in London Chinese suit- nitters to contribute to D.X. The able for the play he spent six hours HARTS. has one great am-
in a room at Limehouse parleying Chition:** One hundred per cent. through an interpreter.
communication with every corner of the earth. unit that in effecting this they may assist their brother amateurs throughout the world in mutual co-operation and friend-
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With characteristic caution the Orientals raised every comeivable point," he said. They were first of all most suspicious about the financial side. Our terms were ne- ceptable (though they would have preferred much better ones), but they somehow could not imagine that they would ever be paid. This difficulty was only removed when
POPULAR SET OF THE FUTURE.
DEVELOPMENT ALONG
THREE LINES. What is to be the next great No other science in the whole development in the world of radio realm of human activity has made such astonishing progress as wire- less reception has in the brief space at ten years.
all
the cor-
From the simplest of beginnings it has developed into A means of linking up munities of both hemispheres, and almost every week witnesses the evolution of some new refinement.
long what line is this progress to be maintained or extended?
The student of present-day ten- dencies in wireless practice sees three lines along which development will be most beneficial. All three embody as a main factor the aboli- tion of the outdoor aerial. These are:-
-The simplification and conse- quent cheapening of the all-electric receiver.
2-The elaboration of the self- contained set of the supersonic heterodyne type with five, seven or more valves, and embodying a frame aerial; and
The development for popular use of the Stanode radiostat system of tuning in order that the number of receivable stations may largely be extended, irrespective of closely
claimed that the B. B.C. never re- I thumped the table hard and pro-approximating wave-lengths.
congratulate the Editor of D. and those associated with him upon having produced a very creditable publication which should be widely supported, not only in this Colony. But in many nearby places where radio amateurs have vo rady access to technical perio-pudiated its contracts. dicals containing news of contem. povary wireless experiments. D... will published monthly at fifty cents, and non-members of the H.A.R.TS. can get copies from Messrs, Kelly & Walsh
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"Then they had numeroas scruples about whether they ought to be associated with broadcasting. They were not sure whether they would be prejudiced from a ligions point of view, whether it was dignified to be mixed up with the wireless, whether their relations would be happy about it, and final. ly. whether a step of this kind would be acceptable to their ances-
tors.
All these matters "had to be argued at almost interminable length, and occasionally felt a little impatient, whereupon I was reminded through the interpreter that there was plenty of time! When I left soon after midnight I was almost exhausted." But Mr.. Sieveking had the satisfaction of obtaining the signatures of the Chinese to the contract, and he häs Do doubt that they will be faithful to its terms.
"But no more than is strict terms," he added. "If the slight. est thing happens that is not in the bond the Chinese will walk out,"
New Valves,
It has been urged by many radio enthusiasta, that the all-electric aet is the receiver of the future. The
arc
great scheme of the Electricity Com- mission for extending electric sup- steady progress" but there plies all over the country is making
still thousands of districts and bun-j dreds of thousands of homes in which no electrical supply is avail- able.
In all these homes the battery- operated set is still the only alte native. As the popularity of radio rereption increases, more and more. efficiency is demanded, and there i fore the main line of development would seem to be the cabinet in- strument on the model of the port- nble with. self-contained aerial, batteries and accumulator, but with greater power of reaching out into the ether.
This implies one. two or three atages of screen-grid high frequency, with a super-power valve or pentode in the output stage. These condi- tions imply in their turn the evolo- tion of power valves of a more (Continued on neat Column.).
10, 1930.
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POLISH JOURNALIST
ACQUITTED.
A Jewish, journalis: named Sein- Warsaw receatly on the charge of feld was tried and acquitted in
having published to another person news which is the interests of the State ought to have been kept be- yond the reach of foreign Uüvera, iments. The power to take pro Bigeletto Quartette and Mignonceedings or such a charge is de-
Ente'acte Garotte Pletre. "(Accordion Solo). "Faust"-Selection.
Band of H.M. Coldstrehm Guards, You, You Alone and For You,
John Boles (Tenor). Mississippi Brite (A Tone Jour- ney), Paul Whiteman and his concert orchestra.
A Chip of the Old Block and So I Left, Peter Dawson (Bass- Baritons), Sincerity Waltz and Wedding of the Winds Waltz, La Vittoria Orchestra.
Just As We Used to Do nad Dream Lover, Edward O'Henry
(Cinema Organ). Anchors Aweigh March and Alt Hands-March, United States Navy Band. Faust-The Jewel Song and The King of Thule, Elisabeth Rechberg (Soprano).
Oh, How I Weary, Dearie, For You and That's the Reason Noo I Wear a Kilt, Sir Harry. Lauder,
The Skaters-Waltz and Estudian- tina. - Waltz, International Concert Orchestra.
rived from a Presidential decree, promulgated 'in 1999, which does duty for an Official Secrets Act.
On December 27, 1929, whea Cabinet erisis was at its height, 31. Seinfeld telephoned to the Presi dency of the Council for informa. tion. Before his call had been an- swered he was told by an operator at the exchange to disconnect him- self from the circuit because it was wanted for a long distance call at Spala. As Spala is the place where the President of the Republic bas") his country seat, M. Seinfeld, la-j stead of complying with the opera- tor's request, yielded to a profes- heard was M. Bartel's nightly re- sional temptation. What he over.
port on his efforts to form a Cabi. private secretary to net as it was being dictated by a President's aides-des-comp.
one of the After- wards he published the sahstance news bulletin the report in a circulated privately.
The gist of the Public Prosecu tor's argument was that the intel- ligence services of foreign: Powers were just as much interested in A Little Love A Little Kiss and political as in military secrets, and The Clatter of the Clogs.eukages of either sort might be Gracie Fields (Comediend).
The act of equally damaging. I'se Disgusted and Check and eavesdropping in itself had been Double Check, Amos 'n' Andy immoral. Counsel for the defence (Humorous).
replied that the first duty of a journalist was to inform the world about interesting events, and, pro- vided that he made proper use of his information and published it in an accurate form, it could not be said to matter how he got it. What had been the results when only a week ago the British "poli- tical police" had tried to interfere with the freedom of the Press? He would have thought that such a
Bolero and Gymopedie No. 1,
Boston Sympony Orchestra. Now I'm in Love, Reginald Foort
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economical character than any of prosecution was possible. only in those in popular use to-daw
Soviet Russia.
Research on these lines is in con- stant progress in the laboratories of the valve manufacturers, and already there is promise of a new type of super-power valve with a current consumption much lower than the normal, which is something like 20 milliamps, and requires battery of extiss large capacity.
The Bench took only five minutes to arrive at its decision, which was that the defendant must be aequit ted, there being no evidence that he had committed an offence within the meaning of the Presidential decree, M. Seinfeld had spent several weeks in custody before being released on bail.
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