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Wireless On Ships' Lifeboats."
vessel, the steamship Svane, in sasily be handled in an open England started broadcastin Cardiff Docks. When about to boat at son, and the apparatus to radio asts that were rented sail the ship had a dangerous list, and operator are afforded ada-- from the manufacturers. There and the Board of Trade officer quate shelter from the weather, was a general system of co-opera- found she carried 20 tons in excess And, thirdly the directional tion between manufacturers and of har cargo. When it was re-receiver enables the Actual governmant; by which concerts moved the ship floated safely on direction of a rescuing vessal were to be paid for through rentals an evan keel
to be determined with. suffi- and licenses for receiving sets. MAORI CANON.
cient accuracy up to the full But the officials and radio an- The installation of the first distance over which boat signals | gineers failed to include the real Maori clergyman to become a can be received by ships'fan, the amateur who makes his canon of the Anglican Church apparatus in most common use own set with what little wires has taken place at St. Mary's The worst conditions in which a and tubes and other parapher Cathedral, Auckland, New Zaa-set is likely to be used are in the nalia he can collect. Setting up "com. land. He is the Rev. Wiremu standard 26-ft. open lifeboats, in a monopoly in such a Hone Keretane, assistant super-which masts 22-ft. high and 24-modity."it is found, is practical- intendent of the Maori Mission apart can be fitted without over-ly impossible.
Grdained in 1901. rigging the boat. With such an So the British have tried to Among those prosent at the aerial, the Marconi ser can be solve their problem by reducing service was a number of the relied upon to draw the attention the license fee and trying to induce outsiders to pay the lower tolls. That is left altogether to This necessitates the nie of a 600 the discretion of the outlaw, fans, metre wave and spark telegraphy.who can't be routed out whatever and involves power of nominally the inducement, and who can go 4 kw. The whole of the wire on listening in on the broadcast less outfit, excepting, of course concerts. the masts and aerial, is contained in a weatherproof case of such a size that it reduces the seating accommodation by two. and its weight is equivalent to that of two official men."
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Maori clergy. Bishop Averill who conducted the service, said it was one of the most interesting ever held in the cathedral
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of any ship at a distance of at least 50 miles over 500.
A similar situation may be ex- pected in this country if the prac tice of renting and licensing radio sets is put into effect. In fact, the number of outlaw fans would be proportionately greater in this country than in England, as the number of radio fans here is to- day. And in England, the officials estimate 203,000 outlaw radio sets are in use.
Leave it to the ingenuity of the American amateur to find a way out. He can built any kind of a sat with the scraps he has on hand, and he can find a way to tune in even on the wired form of wireless.
The result of a monopoly in radio broadcasting might be a monopoly in the manufacture of radio sets for rental only.! But parts would also be built and these parts would easily go into the individual sets that amateurs will put up for their own use. How can they be stopped?
In the earlier type of direction Ander, the instrument enabled the operator to ascertain that a given station was on a line running (say) duo east or west, but did not indicate in which of two directions it actually lay. The new instrument gives the bearing of the station from the receiver, and is of the utmost value when a ship's crew have had to take to their boats, as it allows the boats to inform the res- euingship of the direction in which she should steer in order to pick them up. It is impossible to over- estimate the importance of this knowledge in cases when there is room for nacertainty in the position of either the rescuing ship or the boats, or when visibility is low. Two aerials Limitation of manufacture of are used in this system. One, rádio sets and parts, and institu termed an open serial, is used both tion of a fee on the manufacturer for transmission and reception, for each set, might be eren al and has no directional effect, so better way to collect funds for that receiving signals will bave payment to the lecturers, singers the same strength regardless of and others who are asked to the beating of the distant broadcast their specialties. station. The other, a frame Monopoly of broadcasting by aerial. is used for direc-wired wireless the light and tion-finding purposes. When power companies-seems to be the frame is edgewiss on to the just as good an answer to the distan: transmitter the signals problem of broadcasting as has received will be of maximum been the unsuccessful British strength, and they will gradual-monopoly. ly diminish in strength as the angle of the frame to the incom. Every "listener-in" has heard ing signals is increased. They the whoops and howls caused by: will be inaudible when the frame by the oscillating talves is broad-side-on the transmitting inexperienced, or thoughtless. station. By rotating the frame, wireless enthusiasts. therefore, the operator Can Many complaints have been ascertain the beating of any received by the British Broad- wireless station within range of casting Company of this misuse his instrument. The open serial of" reaction" in various parts of} alone gives no idea of direction: London. The worst offenders, it the frame aerial alone allows the is stated, are in the districts of direction to be determined with Plumstead and Walthamstow. accuracy, but does not dis criminate between "towards" or away from": and a combina- tion of the two allows of the toward: direction being dis tinguished from the "away from" direction.
THOSE HOWLERS."
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Reaction, is of great value in! wireless reception, but there is no excuse for handling it in such a way as to interfere with the enjoyment of other people.
An appeal is made by the British Broadcasting Company LOOPHOLES FOR THE "FAN."
that it shall, as far as possible, be Recent reports that wired wire-eliminated. less, under government supervi When the RB.C. were conduct- sion, will replace the present sys-ing their Transatlantic tests they tem of radio need bring no fears were greatly handicapped by the to the dyed-in-the-wool radio fan, oscillations se: up by amateurs: says an American writer. Re- who, with two or three value sets, ceiving concerts through rented were using all reaction possible in sets only, and over accreditedelec-order to "pick up" America. tric light or power lines, may be the outcome of present difficulties in broadcasting, but loopholes pre- sent themselves.
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Some quaint prizes were won as the result of a raffle organised by the Stock Exchange Operatic and Dramatic Society for various hospitals. About £2,000 raised by the sale of tickets.
Amongst the 150 prizes was a sucking pig. A week-end for two at the Royal York Hotel, Brighton, was secured by a mem bar of the Stock Exchange whilst a lady secured a coupon which entitles her to "have her coms cut and nails manicured up to January 31"
Other prizes were-& pint of beer every day for a week; 12 lessons on the organ; b. each way on any horse, selected for the Derby, £400 Triumph car; a dose of salts every day for a
CONTESTS BY RADIO. Interscholastic competition may be a new function for radio, if indications from first experi ments here are upheld by future tests, says a Sacramento (Cali fornia) message.
Will C. Wood, state super- intendent of public instruction, recently held a spelling contest by radio; and drew enthusiastic response from 40 high schools with some 3000 senior students as participants,
While every school listened in, the series of spelling tests were conducted from a central broad-! casting station.
"Practically all of the schools which took part in the contest have written in asking that I repeat the performance," says Wood: "I intend to do so, but the next time with a mental arithmetic test."
The improved Marconi wireless set for ships' lifeboats, which was recently demonstrated at Grave- send before the Seafarers' Joint Council, represents, it is claimed, great advances in apparatus of the first place, the transmitting power is about four times that which could previously be ob-
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