HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1930.
TADLO
SHUALVAI
THE TROUBLES OF A BROADCASTER.
AND A PEEP AT LISTENERS' LETTERS.
The great exhibition opened în į London last month at Olympia | reade it clear to thousands how wireless is heard. Mr. Harold Nicolson was asked to write a few words on how wireless is "spoke." It may be of some interest to the listenor to learn something of a broadcaster's habits, intentions, hesitations and points of view.
The British Broadcasting Cor poration are housed for the present
in
an ungainly building off the Strand. Below the red-brick facade of their offices huddled on the north Bide the little Chapel of the Savoy, crouching under the chatter of starlings in the trees. And to the wast rise the great cliffs of the Savoy Hotel, throbbing with tur bines, refrigerators and United States tourists.
Hush, Hush,
As one enters the building one's voice is hushed by a large notice facing the stairs. "SILENCE" this notice shouts at one, and one creeps into the hall on tiptoe.
A subdued whisper to the door keeper, and he tells you the number of the studio allotted for your talk. The lift ascends. You enter that hushed corridor which leads to the Rubber carpets .operating table:
dull your footsteps, and further notices, illumined" and menacing, tell you not make, a noise. Red lights and blue lights flash alter nately above the several doors.
The whole atmosphere is that of a nursing home during a major operation. You miss the smell of lysol and chloroform. You slip into your studio with trembling rees.
The
Besasuring,
The studios themselves are decor- ated with an intent to reassure. There are armchairs scattered about the fine Turkey carpet, and a piano all careless in the corner, and some bright coloured reproductions of modern pictures, A Van Gogh over there on the left, and on the right
Cézanne.
Thus reassured, you approach the deak. This article of furniture is constructed on the lectem principle, and is covered by a thick fait goth such as one places under type writers. Above it hangs the miern, phone, suspended from a neat little gallows. Opposite is fixed a large kitchen clock, with a menacing minute-hand in red which jerks out the little hours of man.
Into the wall are set three glase nanes of white and red and blue. These are your light signals. There in a bottle of water provided and a glass. You drink feverishly with
eye upon the clock!
I
and
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON
336 METRES.
How impressed must they be by 11 to 11.30 am-Commersial new..
fluency. 11.30 am-Chinese programme. one' eloquence Honesty compels me to confess, 12.30 p.m.-European programme. however, that the talks are 1.30 p.m.-Weather report. fully prepared and neatly typed in
2 p.m.-Clew down, two copies.
These copies, on the moming of your talk, are submitted to the censorship of the B.B.C. authori ties. This is inevitable.. It is they who have to bear the brunt if any thing you any wounds the suscepti bilities of the great British public. And in nine cases out of ten they alter passages or tone down expres. sions, apologising with exquisite courtesy for the damage they have done.
So you sit there, reading out your manuscript as best you may. It is a bad system to visualize your audi- ence in a lump. It is better to take some average listener and to address to him or her the remarks which you make.
Mr. Desmond MacCarthy visual- ises a charming gardener whom he The announcer enters. The red used to know once in Scotland. A light begins to agitate itself imman who really did want to know patiently, Now silence, please about books and people. I myself
11
5 p.m.-European programme of Victor records selected and sup- plied by Mesara Taang Fook & Co.
The Jolly Coppersmith " and "Don't Be. Cross."-Arthur Pryor's Band. Barcelona "and
How Are Yout
Hello, Aloha, Jesse Craw
ford; Organist. "Salut D'Amour" (Elgar) and
"The Magic Song" (Zauber lied).-Marok Weber and his orchestra,
"A
Apacho Dance" (Offenbach) and La Golondrina" (Serradell), Victor Salon Orchestra, Night in Venice-Overture (Strauss)State Orchestra.~ "Norwegian Bridal Procession " (Orlog) and "Swedish Wedding March Sadermann)-Victor Concert Orchestra, Alcina Suite"-Menuet (Handel)
REACHING OUT."
LOCAL RESIDENT'S EXPERIENCE.
Perhaps the following may be of interest to some radio enthusiasts.
A radio set in Hong Kong to be interesting must be capable of bringing in foreign stations, as only part of each evening is devoted to Τα European or Chinese music. receive foreign stations here a fairly powerful set is required (for waves over 200 metres), and to run such a set large capacity H.T. batteries are required. These will cost some. where round $50. With a sat re- quiring some 20-25 milliamps, the batteries will last about six months, if the set is worked between three and four hours per day. The high tension costing some 87 to 88 per month,
"Some time ago I inquired from the Canton Trading Association (China Building) if they could. supply me with a good main's unit: to supply high tension from the local electric light current. Parti. culars of current required were given, and a few days later a innin's unit was delivered.
Since I have used this unit (giving 23 milliamps) it has given Anil Gavotto-Tamburino.overy satisfaction at a cost of only he presses a concealed button under is not allowed to read, and who says the announcer, and visualise someone with measles who
Philharmonic Symphony Orch. a few cents per month. The initial the desk. The red light at that may be obliged, therefore, to take
"Stumber On" and "The Perfect cost was 856, and an absolutely becomes stable and menacing,
Song."Victor Salon Orch. smooth high tension supply, is A passing interest in the spoken
Golliwogg's Cake Walk" (De given." You are switched on to
hussy), universe.
the word. Unless you identify yourself
"The Hurdy Gurdy The slightest eroak is
Man in this way with some imaginary audible.
(Goossens) and The Auditor your talks will degenerate
Little Shepherd " (Debussy).— into being impersonal lectares.
Hazel Gertrude Kinneille, Piano
The announcer then leans over vour shoulder with practised case. He announces you. He withdraws. And then there is nothing left for you but to begin your talk.
Honesty Compels--
I should like to think that my listeners were under the impression that such talks are improvised.
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When it is all over the announcer' creeps up behind and again presses the concealed button. The red light goce out suddenly, You sit back with relief and stretch your self.
And the Lettern!
And then the next day come the letters.
کیا
You will get ten letters saying you drop your voice at the end of the sentence. You will get ten let- ters asking you not to raise your voice at the end of the sentence lison curate. You will get twenty letters telling you that your BTE R marvel and a joy you will get
p.-Kiddies' programme,
6.30 to 8 m. (approx.)--
"
Poet and Peasant"- Overture (Von Suppo). Vietor Sym-
Orchestra hony
(Aronsky) and Im- promptu"Recocco (Schutt).- Harold Bauer, Ossip Gabrilo witsch..
Beautiful Night "Waltz (Offen
bach) And "Spring Song" (Mendelssohn), International Concert Orchestra, Goms from Cocoanute" and
gems from Sunny."-Victor | Light Opera Company. twenty letters telling you that you"Loch Lomond "." and "Scotch are an ass and a fool.
Memories."-Sir Harry Lauder, Comedian.
Don't Come Back!” "Never, never," thus will run a letter from the Isle of Man, have I enjoyed talk 90 much." Please," renda a postcard from Porlock, go abroad again and don't come back." There will be listeners who tell you that you are too high-brow, and listeners who write that it passes their conception how a man of education, etc., etc.
You will get lettere asking you to mention fountain-pens, birth con trol, the charm of the Lake District, and the importance of cleaning one's teeth four times a day. You will be neked your advice on matri- mony, incipient baldness, hotel prices in Translyvania, and how to cure ringworm.
And among these letters will be one which will convince you that broadcasting is a useful, may, & noble, function. That letter will contain your cheque from the B.R.C.
QUERY CORNER.
A.G.F.F. The Pilot Super-Wasp circuit will meet your requirements. You can get a print very dieaply at the Sincere Co. The aerial as you have. It is the best to work. Placing it diagonally, as shown in the second aketch, would bring tou much sareening effect. The recep tion of local broadcasting on the Hetector will be possible on the cir- cuit above mentioned. Use of a LF. choke is almost a sure method of preventing the L.S. coil being burnt out, but a L. transformer. will give puro. reproduction,
(Continued on nest Column.).
"Ah, Moon of My Delight" (Leh- mann) and Beloved It IR Richard Morn (Hickey).
Crooks.
"La Figlia Del Regimento" (Doni. zelli). Toti Del. Monte, So- prano.
"Leggero Invisible-Bolero" (Ar
diti) and "Der Erlkonig (Schubert). Ernestine Schu- mann-Heink, Contralto. Samson et Dalila-as tu done Oublie "-Giovanni Martinelli, Tenor,
La Soanambula-Ah, Non Crede Mirati" (Bollini). Toti Dni Monti, Soprano. Falstaff-Sul__ Fil D'un Soffio
Etesio" (Berdi). — Toti Monti, Soprano.
8 p.n-Chinese Studio Concert, 9pm-Weather report. 10.30 p.m.-Close down,
HAVE YOU HEARD THESE?
Here are lists of long-wave 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 auch signals. Success in picking up these stations also depends vorý largely upon fáv- ourable atmospheric conditions. Boaders are invited to add to this list should they succeed in picking up any station not in cluded in either of these lists.
LONG-WAVE STATIONS.
Wave length (Metrea) Station
200 Manila 277 Shanghai 280 Tientsin 310 Shanghal
330. Peping.
Del
Call Kilo- Bign cycle K.Z.I.B. 1,183 K.8.M.S. 1,055 C.R.O.
1,070
KR.C 987
G.O,P.K. 945 348 Tokyo J.O.A.K. 870 283 Hiroshima J.O.F.K. 650 355 Hong Kong Z.B.W. 840 337. Bombay
361 Sapporo 300 Keijo
270 Nagoya
370.4 Calcutta
V.U.B, 840
J.O.I.K. 830 J.O.D.K. 820
J.O.C.K.- BIO V.U.C
800.6
380 Kumamoto J.O.G.E. 720
390 Sendai 305. Dairen 398 Rangoon 400 Osaka 410 Canton 413 Manila
SHORT-WAVE STATIONS.
Krzo
CTCLES
J.O.H.K. 770 J.D.A.K. 760 V.U.R. 784 J.O.B.K.. 760 C.M.B. 738 K.Z.R.M.
TIME (HONG Kero)
OF WORKING
STATION
CALL BIGH
67,66 Debints (Gordany) 60.12 Khabarovsk (Lussia) 86.7 Нацов
A.F.E.
4,486 | Mon., Wed. & Fri., 0 p.m. & 2 3,11,
E.A.97.
4,090 0-10 p.m..
A.G.J.
5,291 Not regular
BU
Moscow
EF.N.
6,000 Tues, Thum, Sat., 6 p.m.
43.6
Foto
1.M.A.
6,900 Sunday midnight
£2.
Forth
NQ.A.G.
7,142 Daily 8.30 p.m. & 11 p.m.
41.3'
Singapore
VBLAD.
Kootwijk (Holland) | POL Bangkok (Biam)... HSAPJ. 03.0 Sydney 12.D.L 31,55 Helbourne
SLO.
.8,108 | Tuos, & Fri., 9 p.m.-1 a,to,
0,603 Not regular
1.48 Schenectady
W.XAF
9,630 Daily 7am.
31.20. Eindháron (Holland) | P.C.. 81.28 Sydavyst 81.. Naizobi (Kenya) * 23.6 Bydney
2.7.C.
1,300 Nat'regular
7.1.0.
2.M.E.
10,620 Not regular
PLE
5.3W.
K1XR.
“TELEVISED " ACROSS THE 385
27. ATLANTIC.
Mr. Douglas Walters, of Bedford Park, Landon using a short-wave wiroloss jót of his own design and a televisor, picked up a television picture which was being transmitted from New York and hold it on. bis reception: sorven tatil the end of the transmission.
"I was not looking for a televi- sion transmission," said Mr. Wal- tore "but when I found the char actoristic note: on a short wave I droided to investigate it, although it was fading extremely badly.
"I picked out the head and shoulders of a man. The picturo. who distorted, but I 6
out hia: moverhol
27.8 Bandseng 25.58Chelmsford (England)
Manila
W.2.X.O.
P.L.G.
24.5
28.35 Bchersatady
18.98 Bandoang-
18.4
Kootwij£ (Holland)
POL.
17,4
Baudoing
P.L.F.
16.0
Bangkok
16.74 Randomg
- 10.3) Kootwijk (Holland)
16.5 Nancy (France)
18.93 | Pittsburg
MERUTM"||
an
"I think this is the first time a
New York television broadcast bas
been received over here."
HALPJ. 1.0.K.
7,310 Not regular
7,780 Dally 11 pp.
0,230 Not regular
4,020 Fri. 3 am. Sat. Bam, & 10 mm,
0,877 Midnight daily.
11,020 | Midnight—3 a.m. daily
11,761 | 17.30 păm, & 2 mm, daily, except
| 12,240|| Nightly
Baturday and Sunday
12,850 4 am, Wed., Fri, Sat,
16,102 Daily 030 p.m. to midnight
10,004 Dally 7 p..
17,280 Daily 8 pm, to midnight
17,751 Bundays 7 pm, & midnight
18,604 Each afternoon
PLE
10.220 Daily 5,80-7 p.m.
10,851 Daily 0 ...
W.S.X.K.
21,540 Not regular
Allowanes must be made for "summer tímė" in most Euro-
pean countries, which is one hour ahead of true time.].
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