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1923
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Busting by wireless is the Crowne, a 700-year-old hostelry latest form of village entertain- in which a aix-valve sat rare at meat, and it is getting increasing-them nightly. ly popular. says a writer in a Home paper.
I have been travelling in a special Lloyd's News motor-car fitted up by Marcanis with their latest high-power reception set, and we have been broadcasting wireless concerts for the first time in the history of many of the remoter South Company villages.
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[BY "PRO.") Question-Must a player's ball lie in the green in order for him to have the right to remove some The water clock, dated 1636, loose impediment that is on the facing the amplifiers Do longer steer and which he feels may drips the hours away. But affect his next shot, possibly more modern clock, dated about prevent him from holding out!
Answar,-A player has the 1702, gives the signal to the wireless enthusiasts to line up right to remove loose impediment and tune in. And when all the from the patting green loud speakers in Goudhurst get though his ball does not lie on going even Old Fry and Mrs the grean. The rule states that Penfold, who are 92, swear the the player has such a right, ir- noise will make the graves yawn respective of the position of the player's ball. Which would mean There are still places where the up in the churchyard.
that it doesn't matter whether Goudhurst talks wireless overs the ball is on the putting grean.j only entertainments from town
Barnstormers, which night, and one of the inhabitants through the green or in a hazard. are the travel in vans round the country- tells me that he knew about Question-Smith and Jones AFE side during the summer months. I wireless when Marconi was think-playing a handicap match. inj But the pioneer work of the ing about it. He says it was which Smith is giving Jones a Lloyd's Yers van equipped by through a great storm occurring stroke a hole. On a certain hole Marconis has created a new con-when he was on night duty a long they both score a 6. Deducting
time before the war.
the stroke that Smith is giving versation in local hostelries.
The aerial is fixed above the car, and a loud speaker, which gives
perfect definition over Several hundred yards, can also be attached to a microphone arrangement, through which the concert manager can make his
announcements.
We have been travelling through the Weald of Kent and our audiences have been enjoy
in
ing
wireless concerts
He is looked upon "here as a bim. Jones has a 5for the hole. wizard by the lesser lights, for Smith had the honour at the hole act only did he anticipate Senator in question. Does he retain the Marconi, but he says he was honour since both had a 6, or does really the inventor of the tank, the fact that Jones, less his handi- and has shown me a burglary cap stroke, had a 5, entitle him
to the honour at the next bolet alarm which he invented,
At the close of the Goudhurst
concert
show there was only one really dissatisfied inhabitant, old Mr Gardiner, who said he did not.
of our much think me instances for the first anyway. But as he has been time. Of course the youn stone deaf for many years his ger generation know all about criticism can hardly be counted wireless. But the older school, fair.
BRITAIN.
are still a bit sceptical Young RADIO CONTROL IN GREAT
Jarge" can talk about amplifiers and inducation till he is blue in! the face, but utd "Gaffer Brown shouts encouragingly when 2 LO gets atmospherical "Now then,' boys, you had better put another record on."
He minds the time when they brought out these phonographs, and he is prepared to bet there is a man in the back of the box with a talking machine.
At Seal the children danced to the wireless on the village green and there were many sights that would have made glad the heart of "Uncle" up at the broadcasting station.
Answer-Jones has the honour
next hole. The fact that both players made a 6 is given no consideration. Jones, by deduct- ing his stroke allowance, won the hole with a 5 and is entitled to the honour at the next tee.
Question When a ball is hit by an opponent's ball on the fair- way must the ball be dropped or replaced as near as possible to its original position?
Answer. It must be dropped. Recent developments in Eng-Balls can only be placed on the land indicate that a strong effort putting green will soon be made to relieve the amateur radio operator in that country from having to pay a pro- posed increase in license and buy licences have been issued while his apparatus from the British as many more applications are Broadcasting Company. Radical on file. steps to break the alleged mono-
It is estimated that 200,000 poly are predicted although they individuals are using set, without may not remove the bar against licences because they cannot foreign manufactured radio tele-secure the licences they desire. phone sets. If development is to
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be permitted, the whole situation RADIO SITUATION IN IRELAND. must be simplified many believe. No definite policy has been The new Postmaster General announced by the Irish Govern- is said not to be especially ment up to April 1 regarding its. When broadcasting at Eccles sympathetic toward the present position with respect to wireless the audience was swelled by arrangement. but it is felt he broadcasting, or the operation of charabanc loads of folk from will insist that apparatus be private receiving sets. There is neighbouring villages. And at of United Kingdom manu- a small marke: for this class of another village the proprietor of facture. Many fans in Great equipment. which, since the re- the local fried fish shop begged Britain want to make their gulations of the British post office for a return visit. He told us own receiving sets and utilize and the British Broadcasting that after the show he sold out some manufactured parts. To Company do not apply in Ireland, his stock for the first time.
day these radio, fans can only is open to foreign manufacturers, Village folk know what they secure an experimenter's license
TRACEING CRIMINALS. BY like and what they dislike in the but after receiving their permits.
WIRELESS. London concerts. Bands and they can use any kinds of a set humorists" items are favourites, or part they desire, and listen-in
Scotland Yard is to have two naw and so are some of the "talk."on all stations. These licenses, transmitters of 500 watts power But there are others. They call it is reported, remove them from each. Major T. H. Vitty, engineer, the control of the British Broad-and Mr. G. A. H. Wootton, wire- casting Company. It is assumed less expert of Scotland Yard, were mental work, but they undoubted-experiments which led to the par- that they are engaged in experi-chiefly concerned in the recent We had a local highbrow
Is listen in on all broadcasting chase of the new sets. The adop the other night listening to
concerts. Midsummer Night's Dream,"
tion of wireless by the police the with
book of words The Radio Manufacturers' As-force will assist in cases of in- FLE! hand and the rainsociation has suggested abandon-tricate and baffling natures, which | pouring off his hat and down his inent of the present method of necessitate inquiries in several neck without damping his securing revenue for the Broad- directions. Many local cons
nthusiasm.
casting Company by lincense fees tabularies are watching with in- and royalties, and collecting the terest this innovation at Scotland amount necessary for adequate Yard. revenue from the licence fee. Re-
them "bar turns."
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Nothing on earth can drive some village enthusiasts away
in
A Goudhurst we found our most critical audience.
They were narly all experts, and knew is much about wireless as Tot-strictions against the so-called tenham knows about football. They have been educating them-
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A SPECIAL WIRELESS TELEPHONE.
A demonstration of the use of wireless telephony on aircraft was given to Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for Air, and Lady Hoare, when they recently flew to Gothenburg, Sweden. The aeroplane in which they travelled was fitted with a Marconi A.D.2 Wireless Telephone Set. and extra phones were provided to enable Sir Samuel and Lady Hoare to listen to the conversa- tion with the wireless statations during the voyage.
WATER AS AERIAL Streams of salt water, thrown high into the air, can be used as a transmitting aerial by broad- casting stations. Experiments with this medium have been successfully. carried out.
With spacial apparatus wire connee- tions were made from a powerful broadcasting apparatus to a large: steam of water pumped into the sir, and communications were established over a distance of eighty miles.
This method may prove very; useful in cases of emergency, on board battleships.
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