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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1924.
RADIO NOTES AND NEWS
Wireless Plays Its Part in Exploration. Wiscassot, Mas-A welcome of tione or wave motions would the kind ho has never had before conform and practically bo is. awaiting Captain Donald B. superimposed. MacMillan when he returne horo A non-filled tube connected from over a year's exploration in across the ends of those wires the Arotic.
opposito the oscillator will light| Horetofore the famous ox-whon this resonance is obtained. plorer's home-comings woro Д If a "sliding jumper," or pisco. Burpries to his folks and the rest of copper wire is connected across of the country. Ho had no way the parallel wires, at some points [of letting them know just when it will go out. The placos whore ho would get book, oxcopt for an the tube lights, are the points of occasional lottor.
no voltage. The distance between two such neighbouring points) equals half a wavelength.
Now, thanks to radio, the people of this community and of
| MacMillan's home town, Froo- It is a simple matter, then, to
port, are going to surprise him apply a yard stick to measure thef They are kooping in daily touch wave- longth. with him through special appar latos not up by the American
RADIO STORM WARNING. Radio Relay League at the dock! where he is expected to land. Approach of anything ke Even while MacMillan was a storm around New York is icebound in the Arctic, his people warning enough to the electric back home got occasional glints light company. A special radio of news from him by radio. It receiver is not up for the rooop- has been the first time that ho tion of the static that accom. kopt practically in constant touch panics an approaching storm, with civilization when away from The ringing of a bell is tho warn the regular means of communica-ing. tion.
This achievement was mudo.
FINLAND PROGRESSING. possible through the efforts of the American Radio Relay League,
Amatour interest in radio is an.organization of 17,000 Ameri- progressing in Finland to a stago can radio amatours, in selecting at which that country may well Donald Mix, one of this number, comparo with the rest of Europe. An organisation on the lines of a to accompany MacMillan Εμ operator and in keeping the air Radio Relay League is advanc open constantly for signals from ing the science there, him.
and
Now F. H. Schnell, traffle man-
RADIO AGAINST HEBELS. į Jager of the A. R. R L., is hero The Brazilian Govornmont has working the special transmitting boon using radio to spread their robel receiving apparatus by propaganda against the which ho is communicating forces, The broadcasting stations) daily with Mix on the Bow warned the population of Bao doin us the ship salle slowly Paulo to abandon the city, down the coast of Labrador," leaving tho robals to their fate.
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Radio amateurs are keeping in close touch with the Bowdoin, the explorer Donald B. MacMillan's sailing vessel, as if approaches The Maine coast from a year's stay in the Arctic. The ship is shown as it departed. Above right; inset of MacMillan, and bolow, Donald Mix, radio operator on the Bowdoin.
AMATEURS IN SPAIN,
Through him como nowH dis- patches of the ship's progress, The Spanish Government's with occasional messages from decision to permit amateurs the MacMillan himself.
use of wave lengths below 150 "Whatever may be the import metres and power up to 100 of his explorations to the scientific watts has resulted in increased world." says a raport from the A. interest in this science there. At R.R.L, "Captain MacMillan, with present there Aro about 100 the help of Donald Mix, has amateur transmitting stations in already accomplished one foat of that country. very grout importance. Ho hasi proven to everyone the value of radio as practical aid to explorers,
POSTAUE $69,46.
It cost almost half the prica of Ho has demonstrated its an entire receiving set to send it importance as a psychological by airplane from Los Angeles To relief to men who must be cut Now York recently. It took only al from association with their 53 hours for the set to cross tho fellows, and its efficiency as a continent, but the postage cost direct means of contact with $09.46 gold. civilization.
lost."
MEASURING WAVES.
With A Yardstick.
LOOP ON HOOP.
A German radio engineer has designed a loop on a hoop, with the wiros wound around project- ing pogs alongside, Thus, the actual baso of the loop, including the insulating materiale, is kept away from the antennao viro.
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"Novor again will an exploror, Disquieting Figures of Last Census.wherever he may be bound, fool that for the duration of the Much concern is felt at the journey contact with home is enormous numbor of illitorates in the country, кауы 4 Madrid mossage. The last consus figuros just published show that of the total population of 21,338,381, no fower than 11,145,444 confessed Hartford. Conn.-Tho invisiblo to having received no elementary radio waves which carry broad- instruction. While it is true that cast programmes and messages the statistics refer to the sum through the air have been charging a fee, as do other total of the inhabitants, including measured with a limpio yardstick! such a reduction in the amuse- European countries, bas caused children under six years of'ago, S. Kruso, technical editor of mont tax that an agitation has
BIG TAX THREAT. Holland's liberal policy of par- mitting listening in without
the percentage rouchos 45.46 evon QST, journal of the American been started to tox Batoners ten when these latter are deducted. Radio Rolay Loague, has adoom guildors annually.
so that almost one half of the in-plished this foat. It was babitants cannot rond or write. prompted by the dosire to find
The sex percentage gives 38.38 for a moane of measuring the short FIRST TIME BİGNALS, mon and 52.04 for women.
waves below 80 motros, or those The first radio, time signals The percentage of illitorates in permitted to amateure by the wore sent out in 1904, according the purely agricultural provinces latest Department of Commor co to a Swiss clockmakers' Journal. is still abnormally high;, in Ex ruling.
They wore transmitted during tremadura, Andalusia, Canary Wave motions can be compared teats batwoon two Paris observa- Islands, and Murcia, the rate to the curves in a rope fixed tories. varies between 64 and 71 por at ono und and moved up cont., Cataluna and the Balearic and down steadily at the BOIENCE FROM IRISH STATION Isles reduood their record of 61.07 other. When two
parallel The now broadcasting, station'
per cent. for 1000 to 39.71 for wiros aro connected to the at Belfast has been scheduled to 1020, the rate for Barcelona City oscillator that. producos those broadcast a programme lectures| being still as high as 26.69 for wave motions, and just the right on popular soinnco, Professors both sexe.
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