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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1924.
RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.
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U. S. Bonts Got Wireless Compass.
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tho Governor-in In line with their policy of pro- approval of viding every safeguard for lives Council, but it is contemplated and property at noa, the United that un lor the proposed regiu- Statos Shipping Board has Intoly ation conditions hore will bo installed on fivo President shipa similar to those prevailing in oporated for them on the Pacific England, and that licenses will the very latest development in bo feuable by the Postmaster-
General. radio, ropots a Marila paper.
Timos was when one of the Kroatest dangers of nonan travel was the fact that if fog or hoavy weather was encountered when approaching land, it was often the oxact impossible to tell position and many a good ship has come to griof through the in ability of the master to tell where ho was,
To-day, thanks to the radio compass, all this is changed and it is now possible, no mattor how foggy it may be, or how stormy the weather, for the master to ascertain his exact location at any timo just as if the sun were shining.
Of the sovontoon iconsos in operation bore at tho prosent! time some have boen issued to localy registered steamers and to manufacturers and! others their agents who will be interested in the supply of instruments when the present restrictions upon the issue of licenses cosso to exist, theso few licenses having boon issued to onable exporimonts to ba to
madol with A View ascertaining the most suitable apparatus to be used boro; for at mospherio conditions bero diffor considerably from those which provail in England aad elsewhere, whore broadcast- arried on to a large ing is extent.
The method by wbloh this is determined in declared to be
The Singapore Harbour Board simplo. When in doubt as to a ship's position, communication is and the Telephone Company aro catablished with various shore license holders for axperimental atations or other ships, their posi-purposes, and more rovontly one iconso has been issued tion ascertained and plotted on learns, a
the ohart; the point where the to the Singapore Broadcasting different lines all moet being the Sooloty. position of the ship.
This radio compass is now in- stalled on all five of the Pacific Mail floot, tho Prasidont Clevo- land, President Lincoln, President
"OCEAN MAIL"
Letter "Posted" at Sea.
A latter, hearing the words
Piorco, President Taft, and Pre-"Ocean Mail" on the envelope,
ident Wilson.
and picked up off the Canary
lands by a fishing boat, bas been received by Mrs. Samson, of Guildford.
The radio compass consists of a revolving loop serial placed above a Gyroscopo repeator, which is connected in the master compass.
The letter in from bor busband, The loop is connected to a sonai- tiva radio receiver, containing who is on board the "Port Well of amplificationington," a cargo boat which was When the signals of a desired as direct voyage to Melbourne,
Australia, by way of the Capo." radio
vostel or tuned in, the loop is revolved
four steps
until
station
the
station
ог
in
VOS-
In the lotter Mr. Samson "ays
that as there was no means of sonding letters home, owing to sal is hoard at its weakest point the boat not stopping at any port, or broadside of the loop, which indicates ito direction.
the chief officer was making a raft, to which was going to be lashed a canvas bag containing a cofino tin made watertight.
The loop is equipped with a calibrated scale which gives the points of the radio bearing. But
In this tin would be placed the this le not exactly correct because
A flag lotters of those on board of various motal parts of the ship and mast were being erected, and, which distort the incoming waves.
with instructions and a roward to; However, unloan there is change the finder, the raft was to be in the ship's construction, these thrown over board in the hope errors remain constant. In order
dance.
to check this error a small vessel that another vossol would pick it with a transmitting set is circled up and forward the correspon- around the ship at anchor, and the radio bearings are checked with the actual sight boarings.
JAPANESE PROJECT.
The greatest feature of the NOW
Yap To Have Radio Station. compasa is a devico for automatic-
In accorda ce with article ally substracting this error. Tho lower scale above the compass three of the American-Japanese has a sight wire operating on a wireless agro"nient covering the of Yap, ono of the system of levers which aro con island trolled by a distorted circle. Caroline Islands in the Pa When the radio boaring cific now under Japanese man- obtained, the circle date, the Jpanos Army proposon below is distorted by set screws to erect a highpower r⚫dio station until it makes a correction of the on the island nex year at a cost degross necessary for true bear-of 1.500.000 yon, aye a Tokyo ing and as the error from any message of Droomber 4. given point is constant the road- ing on the lower scale always gives the radio bearing plus or minus the error.
BROADCASTING IN MALAYA.
This decision, which is to bo incorporated in the form of an appropriation in bo army's 1925- 26 budiret, is incidentally to fore- stall American action along the The Yap agreement. same line. roached after months of contro- vorey between the two countries following the granting of the Repeated references to the mandate for the former German rapid strides which are boink made in conection with broad-Conference, provides that if Japan
Why It Hongs Fire.
islands Japan by the Versailles
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casting in England and America. fails to provide adequate radio appointed had held four meetings
AFTER MIDNIGHT
and in other places where this facilition on Yap, the United and quite a big bunch of prolimia. Fronch amateurs who want to scientific development is more States shall have the right to ary work had been done. Thoy tost their apparatus BIO not recent history, sarvo to omoract a radio station there. phasize how far behind the times
Malaya is, despite the onergias of THE JOYS OF LISTENING-IN.
a few enthusiasts to whom the establishment of Broadcasting Societies in Singapore and ulao- where in this country is due, saya
persons
had a copy of tho rules of the Calcutta Radio Club, and the permitted to transmit on their allotted short waves bofore Committes had considored these midnight. He can transmit at
and would draft out a set of rules
STORIES FOR BOYS. Station Weaf, Now York, has
Burma Radio Club. to suit local conditions. It had any time on wavelengths botwoon Another public meeting of been decided by the Committee 180 and 200 moters.
in Rangoon that the entrance fee should be Rs. a Singaporo papor. Trug, listeners- thoso in in England have a far more in eroated in wireless develop 12-8 and the subscription Rs. 2 a considorable field from which to ment and broadcasting was hold, month, the first quarter's subscrip- draw
than over on the initiative of the Burmation to be paid in advance. Thosa enjoy mont Malaya can have, so far as one Radio Club, on the roof garden of rates word exactly half of what begun a wookly series of stories can soo in the present stage of the Royal Hotel, on November the Calcutta Club wore charging, for boys to be delivered early development of broadcasting, but 15th. The attendance was fairly and they had boon so fixed in the every Saturday night by Fred 3. feature writor. Most of them will Caylon is in much the same pori-goor, but there would havo boon hope that there would be a largo Turnor, nowspaper
be instructivo advonturo stories. tion as Malaga. Yet listeners-io more present if it had been made membership.
However, the Radio
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IT'S A USHAPHONE. Broadcasting from open spaces
man and
in Colombo derive a considerable known that arrangemente had amount of anjoyment from the been completed for those present
KEEPS CLOSE RECORD. radio concorte arranged by the at the meoting to liston-in to a
Station Kgo at Oakland, Calf, the latest papore to hand from the Department of the Univeral whore large crowds are assembled keeps & record or "log" of every Broadcasting Society there, and concert sont out by the Physics island rofer to decided improvo-Collogo. ments effected in connection with Club was established on a sound requires a new type of microp programme number and change of the most recent concert, some of footing, and as both the entranco bono, called a "hushaphone," It apparatus, overy minuts it is on It helps shook up and the items of which were trans-foe and the monthly fee have is designed to oxclude the shouts the air.
boon made very reasonable, it, and other noises of the crowds anawor all sorts of queries about mitted flawlessly.
Matters in Malaya are hold up at was not strange that most of while the broadcasting is going its broadoasts.
thoir on. the moment by the home authori- those prosent latimat d
ELEVATORS IN TOWERS. ties to whom have boon referred desire to join the Club. It was
STANDARD FREQUENCIES.
The 16 wireless masis to au the rules and regulations framed announced that 28 porona had by the Government Wirele-s already joined the Club-which
The U. B. Bureau of Standards port the aorial of the powerful Committee-constituted in 1922 is more than the London Radio to control the issue of licenses for Club started with many years has extended the range of its station at Rugby, England, are transmisso high that each is equipped: rooolving, transmitting and broad- ago, to boast now of a member standard frequency
alone, to be checked up by ex with an elevator to take work- casting. Pending the approval of ship of over 600,000
Mr. Standen, who was in the perimetitors, broadcasters and mon to the top hon repairs are those regulations the issue of
censon to amatours has been chair, and-supported by the Com-others The frequenclos hereafter nooded. Whon this station is antiroly suspended. The licenses mitee, said the Burma, Radio will extend from 125 to 6000 completed, commercial radio
tween England and America, At present in existence in Singa Olub had been established four kilacycles, or from 2400 to 50 cervica will be estabilabed be
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the! week ago The Committed, then motors,
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