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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1925.
RADIO NOTES AND NEWS. Wireless Compass Aids Commerce,
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IN MINNESOTA,
Twin Cities Get High-power Station,
Out on the tip of Capo Elizabeth provided when Mr. A. de Ỡ is a naval radio station, The Sowerby and also inombora of namo might imply that it Miss Wish Wynne's company, contred on
St. Paul, Minn:-A 5000-watt the navy, but this contributed a Hafentific lecture broadcasting station, 18 miles particular station is a decided and musical entertainment, res-north of peace-time assot of American pectively, writes "K.V.A." to the Minneapolis and St. Paul, is the Twin Cition, civilization, a naval aid in fact, to North China Daily News, maritima commerce, writos a
to replace station WCCO this Christian Science Monitor cor-putrid mattor to make for a vast
It needs but a small amount of spring.
This is ono of the now high- respondent.
Many a transatlantic pausonger ta vicinity: it takes but a tiny mitted
amount of discomfort to those in power broadcasting stations per- liner has shifted her conres from insect of an obnoxious nature to arrangement with the Department to broadcast through perilous paths when dense fog make life intolerable: and equally, of Commerce, under provisional prevontod natural progress of the it requiros but a wolfish and regulation formulated at the oraft. Many a const wise aos inconsiderate youth, possessed of recent radio conference in Wash- maator car toslify to the officacy crudo wirele- transmitting ap-ington.
the servicg that aided him to paratus, effectively to destroy from the nearest town, far enough The station will be two milos stour his boleaguerod ship to the the onjoy mont of protected recosa of Portland of others by filling the air with away from a centro of population Harbour.
caricature of Morse Code convoy. Testing out a ship's location ing futilo messages to his friend ference. It will be the lant word La cause the least possibile inter- is as easy for the naval radio in the next block.
in broadcasting, say its sponsora. toning in a radio. receiving
Although 18 miles away, the This is what took place and station will house only the broad- İK Net
for tho amatour receiver.
wont far to mar the pleasure of casting apparatus. The studios At the top of a tall brase shaft is affixed would-bo listeners to ani BX will be in St. Paul and Min- a loop which picks up the waves
cellent programino, from the transmitting apparatus
neapolis. They will be connected The road hog has, in lattor with the transmitting equipment of the vessel nocking its location. years, heen furgoly eliminated by by three special tolophone lines. The loop, vory similar to that weight of public opinion, so per- The station, liko WCCO to-day, employed on many amateur sote, haps the publication of this lottor will be run by a national flour sonds the waves down the shaft, may assist in the suppression of manufacturing concern here co- In revolving affair. Ona numbered the radio hog who, in the very joperating with busines organiza- dial the radio man finds the possession of transmitting ap. tions of the Twin. Cition. Each ship's exact location when his paratus and of ability even crudo-party has agreed to contributo hearing lias told him, throughly to affect its operation, gave ($50,000 to maintain the station. the agency of his radio headset,
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the half way mark between th two points at which the ship's) radio is heard the clearost.
The receiving sot used in the |compass station is known as the Navy Standard Compass Re- ceiver and was installed at Capo
Elizabeth etation in 1921. The transmitting unit is known as the Navy 5 kilowatt unit, Type SE 1210, using medium wavelength, 500 kilocycles to 185; kiloeyelos.
Located in the approximate contro of the U. S. Lightouso Resorvation, the naval station consists of a fiveroom cottage, used as oporators' quarters and transmitting building: A tool houso and workshop combined a six-room cottage used AS the chief radio man's quactors; a small shed for fuel supplies and a garago. These buildings are about half way between the famous Two Lights, (one of which is now die- mantlod), and the aerial masts extend more than 134 foot high.
RADIO HOGS IN CHINA.
A Shanghai Complaint. Notwithstanding the obar. acteristically futile attitude of thei Chinese "Government" towards wirologs transmission, thoro is a rapidly incrassing community in and out of Shanghai which sooks to obtain instruction and amuse-| ment through the medium of wireless broadcasting euch as was
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MYSTERY IN. BOX.
A mysterious box, a gonorator and a sheet of tin, shown above, are all the apparatus Dr. C. A. Abbott of Oskaloosa, I., uso to transmit "vibrations" which, they say, will oure diseases by radio. The receiving apparatus, for the "patient," is the simple tin shown in insat on the head of Dr. Adlon himself.
abundant avidenco of knowledge
100 MILES APART, Station WB%, at Springfield,)
of the futile nuisance which ho was commiting. That knowlodge Mass., has a studio in Boston. sy also enable him to realize moro than 100 miles away. It is that directional receiving ap- said that this is the farthost dia- paratus will spoodily locate his tanco & broadcasting station is, abode in the event of a further sopartod from its studio. display of hoggish bahaviour, whoroupon ho may rest assured that the public opinion already roferred to will assert itself in an uumistakable manner.
WIRELESS MARVEL,
Receiving Set In A Thimble,
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ORANGES AS PRIZE.
Nantucket,
Vokkola sailing the ocean about awarded R. S. Morris of Atlanta, A box of oranges was the prize whothor on surface or bolow it, got warning in the fourth radio district to the Ga., for being the first amatour signals regularly from the light-communicate with an English ship of the shoals.. The fog oporator. Morris owns station signals And the
submarine 410. Joscillator ard sounded at the [samo time.
BOXING FOR GERMANS.
A Significant Change. German pedagogues havd decided to mako boxing lessons for boys optional in all Borlin HAMS' HEADQUARTERS. The American Radio Relay
Achools, says a recent message League at Hartford, headquartors from the Gorman capital. A forced son landing caused for amatours of the country, has a fow it is already compulsory, no worry to the aviators of a put up a now "ham" station. It
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RESCUED BY RADIO.
In
Mc. A. Fiold. 1 Cálcutta chemist has constructed what must be ono of the smallest wire Spain, and Oran, Algeria, Thoy with four five-wat loss receiving sets in the world; had sont out a radio distross call transmission. Apart from the earphones and
plane flying botwoon Alicante, is called IMK and is equipped As part of ordinary physical
boat.
the overhead wires, the whole and wore rescued by a motor apparatus consisting of a tiny coil of wire ombedded in paraflin,an in- sulating disc of fibro. four terminals, a crystal and a cat's. whisker" is contained in a thim-
ble.
A Statesman roprosontalive who listened in on this miniature sot, was surprised at the result, the various items being heard with remarkable clarity consider-
KEEP LOOP APART.
tubes for training, in the gymnasium, but
4 slight hositation prevails about making it absolutely necessary FOR BARGAIN HUNTERS. for all boys to box, whether they Now York City's official radio want to or no. The contention atalion, Wnye, ls to be used for is that boxing.is admirable from the point of view of quick think- ing, which is looked upon there nowadays as a highly necessary equipment in the struggle for
A loop antenus should be informing housewives of bargains kept two feet away from the rein foods and other perishable ceiver, to avoid poor recoption supplies, especially when those and sot. due to interaction between Toop foodstuffs come in an overabun
dant amount.
- KEEP CONTÁCTS CLEAN,
MOONBEAMS PURSUED BY
life.
Berlin's biggest sporting associa⚫ tion has placed its trainers and its gloves at the disposal of the
The spring contacts to tho ing the simple nature of the re-vacuum tube socket, and tho An airplane will race the schools, and spooial lessons are to
vacuum tube contacts should be kept oloan, to assure perfoot rocoption.
ceiving not..
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. Mr. Fiold, who has wireless his hobby for years, has patented a new torminal adapter, which automatioally transforms
SUGAR CANE DRAPERY. '
AIRPLANE, shadow of the moon for 400 milos be givon to masters as well as across Now York State during boys. Nobody can ascertain the tug oclipse of the sun on January opinion of the Gorman school 24. Photographs will be takon masters, whose interests hitherto from tho plano of the flaming may be taken to have been a einglo terminal into a multiple Boston,
The walls of station WEEI, corona of the sun for the purpose! literary rather than sporting, but
aro goveral with torminal olitninating the work material made of dried, pressed out by Profession David Todd, to of to-day that he will never lose a of an experiment to, bo worked it is believed of the German boy and worry of Inserting single eurar. cano, instond torminals into the
mounting ordinary heavy draperien used to period than that of, approximate- from his earliest years and that of the permit photographing for a longer the love of an art taught him panel. The adaptors are dosiga absorb actions. It is said the ly, the two minutes during which he will grow up in the future od to Et tho single terminals in sugar cano general uso at present,
material controls the sclipee will be visible from with aporting rather than a sound better than other goods, the earth.
military spirit..