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ADIO NOTES
One of the featured at the Volunteer - camp at Lown Jasi work-end was a wireless receivi ing station areated within half an what is commercially practicable in this hour by the Engineer Co. of the in wireless telegraphy and tele- mitfee Hongkong Volunteer Defence phony there is a big interval, and Corps.
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one of the main problems to be serials, car, parhapa. The aerial: was alung on two solved in connexión mas especial- long-carried by ordinai thirty-foot poles, and there was x ly with Empire wireland.com" gra på posts, are suggested us wire- total of about 100 feet of wire. muniestion is the reduction, | loam, possibilities in the DOAT. Morse messages were recalved interval to a negotiable, langth (faluru, Koa) quite clearly, some from a great writes the Manchester Guardian's, Manwhile construction must distance. It was hoped to give | wireless correspondent: "It will follow the lines prescribed by some broadcasting, and lond-probably never disappear antire-satual experience. At the new speakers were installed for this ly, for physical reasons, but the | Government station at Hillmorion purpose, but some hitch in the time is approaching when it will | near Rugby, work is proceeding on broadcasting arrangements pre- por have to be taken into quite the foundations for 300ft. latticed vented this.
such anxious consideration. as steel masts which, together with The poles were constructed of at present? - Whan that time machinery and gear necessitating bamboo, in three sections, and comes those, rasponsible for the an input of 1,000 kilowatts, will were the result of efforts by Corp. construction of great stations will enable continuous intercourse to EW. Lewis, who also brought not be harassed by apprehension be maintained with the most dis- over the apparatus. The Engineer lest, instead of building better | tant parts of the Empire. Co's official apparatus is due than they know, they may be At the moment long-range within the next few months. vainly rearing giant strpeturas wireless telephony is not as far destined in a year or two to be advanced as long-range wirejeka run close, if not outstripped: intelegraphy, largely because the point of efficiency by installations power required is, appreciably But the prospect is re-. much more simple and compact greater.
garded as distinctly good. Trans- and many times less costly.
The possibilities in the way of atlantic wireless conversations long-range wireless transmission have already been carried on suc- and reception are, as it is, enorcessfully, and when once the mous. In the matter of wireless right line has been struck pro- telegraphy they hardly need to grass will be both rapid and sure. be extended sincs messages in In communication with the Con- Morse can be sent directly half tinent, however, the most likely round the workt. Even from advance will be by way of a the Leafield Station in Oxford- | combination, of wireless with shize, which normally works land-line telephony, messages. only to Cairo, signals have travelling by land-line to coast been sent out which have been stations, where they will be Įtaken in at Perth in Western automatically relayed by wireless Australia, and the new Post transmission over the sea interval Office station near Rugby and the to similar relay stations on the Marconi stations in Australia and opposite coast. |South Africa-to name only three! →will be several times more powerful than Leafield. Even ches and public entertainments amateur transmitters have sent develop our critical faculty and Morse signals across the Atlantic. make us less easy to please asks The achievements in wireless Cicely Hamilton in the Daily telephony are equally remarkable. Chronicle.
On the 22nd. inst. the S. S... " PRESIDENT LINCOLN " will arrive in Hongkong with a Shipment of Buicks Comprising-
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INVISIBLE AUDIENCES.
Will the broadcasting of spee-
The wellknown broadcasting I am inclined to think that the station of the General Electric | answer should be in the affirma- Company at Schenectady, N. Ytive-because the broadcast
Parliament
which works on an output to the audience of isolated listeners is: antenna.only twice or three not swayed by the same emotions times that of a B.RC station, is as the crowd in a hall or a theatre. often heard by amateurs in this The broadcast audience will think country, and its entire programme and criticise where the crowd in was recently "logged" in Edin the hall only feels. brough by a boy of, 14. Many Candidates for other American stations are re-whose speeches are broadcast will ceived on this side, and many do well to take careful note of the more would be but for the awk-difference and realise that jokes: ward difference of five hours and arguments that appeal to 'aj in clock time.
multitude da nɔt always go well} with the solitary. The listener- But because long-range, "com.in, shut away from crowd- munication is possible with not fellowship, may remain very powerful transmitting and affected by an atmosphere of not very sensitive receiving sets eager enthusiasm: he cannot be it does not follow that regular spellbound by a speaker's per- commercial services can be main-sonality into femporary forget- Įtained with comparatively simplefulness of the weakness of pre- apparatus. The difficulty lies not mises or argument. Half the art
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known as jamming," but also in the smile or the gesture that fading and atmospherica, com-illustrates a point, the blank that monly known as X's. The listener is purposely not filled. to boardcasting knows some Because its eyes cannot help thing of all three; but his out its OA79, the broadcast occasional inconvenience is in- audience must be talked to very significant compared with what clearly and explicitly; its temper is encountered on the higher is not that of the visible sup planes of wireless especially porters who excite each other where the tropical belt intervenes to approval and thunderous: "Fading" occurs mostly in the applause. Hence the appeal afternoon and early evening. In of the speaker will have to Amarica it was found by experi-be more to its judgment and ments in reception from Nauen less to its emotion than in the and Bordeaux that, even when case, of a visible audience: the quite loud signals have been man with a receiver held to his received during the morning, the ear should be treated as if afternoon reception was often be were e, reader, not. 8 extremely poor. On the Leafield- listener-but reader who Cairo circuit the worst hours of cannot turn back to a passage he the 24 are from 3 to 6 p.m.
has not understood.
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Broadcasting, once general, may have a sobering effect upon
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A good deal has been done to wards the elimination of atmos- pherics by an elaborate process of public oratory: the method of the THE HUMAN ZOOʻ Sltering, of which a striking ex-politician who aims at converting ample is in operation in the the man who sits quietly in his Marconi receiving station near own home will be less histrionic! Ongar in Essex By means of a than those of the speaker of succession of filters the X's liter- to-day,
ally squeezed out of existence, In the same way, the growth and the difference between an of the wireless habit is bound, in unfiltered message and altered the end, to affect the character one when the atmosphere is at all of our public entertainments disturbed is astonishing. In the theatres, and so on-which will be former case the crackling is run with a view to pleasing more almost intolerable, in the latter than their immediate audience. the signals in the telephones have The outside public of listeners- a bell-like clearness, the differ in will have to be considered by ence being graphically reproduc manager and artist; a public for ed on the tape of the automatic all practical purposes blind, to be recorder. The drawback is that, interested only through its ears. while it is easy to amplify really Already there is talk of the clear signals to "almost any broadcasting of plays, other-than ertent, it is necessary, in order musical; but it is fairly safe to to render them audible after the prophesy that a "drama which filtering process, that they succeeds with the listener-in will should in the first instance not be the drama as we know it. be decidedly loud a requirement The dialogue that holds the at- involving in the case of long tention of a blind" audience ranges greatly increased power. will have to be sharply clear and Competent judges think that explanatory, leaving next to the limit may have been reached nothing unsaid; action that, in in the matter of filtering, but good an ordinary theatre, is supplied hopes are entertained of another by the players' expression and remedy-namely, direction trans- movements will have to be sat mission, which has already proved forth in words
highly beneficial in securing for And the actor, like the orator, trans-Atlantic, traffic Immunity will find himself in contact with from tropical X's. Some experi- a new and a colder mentality—a ments just concluded in America listaner who cannot be infected with a long low directional serial, by surrounding merriment-or known as the Beveridge Antenna, roused to interest by the obvious have been particularly encourag excitement of his neighbour,
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