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BROADCASTING PROBLEMS WAT HOME.
Dealing with the broadcasting week. Consequently, we fear that problem at Home, the previous the "»queakers" will have a free Issue of "experimental” licences run of many months, even if outs without supervision and theraged genuine parimenters "discovery” of tans of thousanda track some of them home with of listeners in - who had no direction-finders and report thei licanoes whatever, the Alectrical to the authorities." Review Baya
CONSTANT DEVELOPMENTS.
"When matters had come to a head, and it seemed more than probable that the just revenues comes the question of popular in- Along with radio's popularity' of the British Broadcasting Co might be to impover eat in its technical develop ished that it could not afford to continue to provide high as the new science itself. That, proof shows, is about as good programmes and service-
ment.
Thousands of fans, old and
and after some recrimination Just as evory radio fan has won between successive Postmastere over others toward a greater in- General a Committee was esta- he himself has become a convert terest is broadcasting reception, blished to investigate the whole to the actual development of the question. Its raport was com- pleted and presentes to the Post science. Office over a month ago,' and, as will be seen in the abstract young, are daily scanning radio published in another column of publications, if they're not seek- this issue, it recommended con- ing information from radio sales siderable modifications in the clerks, for ways to improve thair existing agreement between the receiving sets. Hook-ups are as Post Office and the Broadcasting being improved regularly.
popular as ever, and parts are Co. Neither the Committee, nor even Parliament, could have any this branch of radio lies in the By far the greatest interest in power to cancel this agreement, hook-up. At first it was and it will be obvious to all who simpla Copp circuit. Then came read the Committee's report that the regenerative circuit, which the Broadcasting Co. could not brought out the name of Edward accept the modifications proposed. A. Armstrong as one of the which might deprive it of a fur-
the
ther large percentage of revenue greatest radio engineers of the It must not de forgotten also that country.
But hardly had his fame the company's net profit is limit- ed to 7 14 per cent. on its capital complicated hook-ups were pro- reached the peak when other more In these circumstances the Post-duced. There came the neutro- master-General followed a wise course in not publishing the Com-dyne considered among the most mittee's report until the terms of the reflex and other arrangements efficient hook-ups extant. Then the new agreement had been of parts by which it was believed settled with the Broadcasting Co... and one cannot be surprised that receiving set.
a listener could improve his the terms of this compromise, a resume of which we publish this of the technical development of Yes this is only the beginning | week, together with the abstract radio. Engineers are striving to above-mentioned, should taken a month to formulate.
liminate interference, and for Briefly, the result is that on
this they experiment with-hook- complete sets sold to the general "ps and new parts with the hope public, a B.B.C. fee will have to of gaining their goal this way. be paid as hitherto, but on a lowed zealously by the true radio All their movements are fol- much reduced scale, and the fan. He is not so much interested user will have to hold a licence in radio proper, as he is in the costing 10s. per annum, as at
have
sugestion for improvement
is eagerly snatched ups and tested,
present. The existing 10s, ex-improvement of his own set. And perimental licence will continue, but holders of such licences must sign a declaration that they will not "use" the broadcast pro- grammes except for experimental,
THE AMATEUR'S CHANCE.
In this. the radio amateur is purposes ! A new "Constructor's the leader. He is the one who is licence is to he issued at 15s. always tearing down and building per annum for those people who up his set, And it is he who construct their own sets and are comes forth now and then with a
fide not bona
experimenters new book-up which he believės within the narrow and not the may revolutionize "radios broader meaning if this term. The Grimes reflex cirquit, one They will presumably ha expected of the famous book-ups of to day to" conform with technical re-for which the inventor is said to gulations to prevent them from bave received half a million interfering with other listeners, dollars, as the product of an and it is to he, hoped that the amateur's brain. His experience same rule will apply to the 200,000 is typical among youngamateurs, unlicensed listeners, who must any one of whom may come out now take out licences by the 15th fone of these days with even a of this month. These 200,000 in-more effective hook-up. clude some thousands who have This universal search for better been a veritable nuisance to hook-ups promises to maintain its serious and law-abiding listeners popularity among the fans, at any during recent months. By con-rate until the ideal set is found structing Bats without that This ideal achievement, as knowledge which would qualify engineers see it to-day, would be them for an experimenter's one that would work well under licence, they have nightly been all conditions of weather and producing on their own accouat other disturbances, which would disturbances in the ether be so simple in its operation that audible to other listeners and any outsider could work it, and seriously impairing not only which would bring in distant as enjoyment of the programmes well as nearby stations at will from the local stations, but also the possibility of accurately tuning-in and listening with ". comfort to distant ones. These "reaction merchants," chiefly pos sessors of home-made one to three-valve sets, and incapable of hearing themselves the disturb- ances they are producing, are known to the elect as "squeakers."
IS
TARSHISH UNEARTHED.
Excavations at a spot near the Anywhere near London one can month of the Guadalquivir seem hear them howling like a pack of to prove the theory that it is the | wolves whenever 2-LO. makes a site of the Biblical city of Tar- late start or during an interval, shish, for which Jonah embarked and screeching like owls when when he fled "from the presence! the performers come to a piano (of the Lord.” passage., The Post Office has Tarahish was the great Phoeni~ decided that listeners at present cian trading contre. King Solo unlicensed are not to be proceeded mor's ships went there and against, provided that they com- brought back gold and silver. form with the law and take out ivory and apes and peacocks." licences without delay. One! The Gormar serant, Professor naturally does not appreciate the Alsis Schulter, who before the
extracted from him all the good being sentenced to ten days in gaol idea of deliberate and wilfull war directed the excavations of and bad things be had done in and on the night of his release he breaking of the law being over the Celtic-Iberian town of Nu- life, on the excuse that he was a went down to the foreshore, strip-looked, but as the Broadcasting matia, in Castile, and Dr. Lam- member of our staff. He gave ped off all his clothes, swam out, Co, which has been the most in- merer, of the Munich Tope- heard of in connexion with this stream and reported to the officer abiding listeners whose pockets, of the excavation. This name, which never has been to a British man-o-war in mid-fured party has agreed, the law-graphical Bureau, are in charge
A visitor of hote having a the visitor again met our alleged to swim a must accept the position. It willed a book to demonstrate that paper. On arriving in Shanghai of the watch that he had engaged at any rate, have not suffered, Professor Schulten has publish rived in Shanghai, one of our reporters went to see him and correspondent at the races.
the Baptist and they were to dive obviously be an impossibility Tarshish must be situated at the was asked if wo had (published or
The visitor was led, by the off the fore bridge. "Ab, yes," said for the Post Office to make mouth of the Guadalquivir.. thought of this mysterious person, the diplomatic officer, so I had an early inspection of the ap The Duke of Tarifa, & friend of view he had already given, says thrown up on were going to publish an inter-atell of various quaint characters been advised, but your opponent/Paratus set up by the existing ex-King Alfonso, who owns the the North Chinn: Daily News. It
the Shanghai has not yet arrived.
You had portmental licence-holders, estim ground has financed the work was explained that nothing had beach in past days. There better come below and wait for ated to number about 80, excavation, which has alread been heard of such a story and was one in particular who him." He waited in the com-000, the unlicensed listeners disclosed Phoenician rains, the visitor then said that he was
indulge in the pany of a stalwart Marine anil estimated at about 200,000, and man temples, and neceropo met at Hongkong by one plausible most extraordinary pranks. An the police arrived--but not to new listeners who take out con-with inscriptions of the anough to be a journalist, who argy of drinking led to him
|structor's licences, who will pro-historical and archaeologi
bably number some thotisanda a intaresis
used to
swim.
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