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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1926.
CURRENT RADIO TOPICS.
NOTES AND NEWS LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.
U.S. EXHIBITION.
FUTURE OF RADIO,
B.B.C. STUDIOS.
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There Booms to be a notion abroad that something is definitely wrong with the acoustic proper- ties of many of the B.B.C. studios, and that almost any transmission from a theatre or concert hall is better than the best that can be done from the studioThis idea la stronger in the district served by the London station than it is in the provinces.
INTERPORT DINNER. -
PRESENT AND PAST
CRICKETERS MEET."
pleaded that they should not for got the old cricketers, such as their worthy President, Mr. "Bob", Sutherland and Mr. Scott Harston, who had done much for the game in the past and would continue to Close upon a hundred cricket en-run their club in the right way. thusiasts sat down to a dinner (Applause)
Old Enemies and Friends, given in honour of the Shanghai Mr. H. R. B. Hancock was rozely- and Hongkong teams at the Honged with cheers on rising to respond. kong Club last night. It was a most successful function from every point of view and grent en- thusiasm prevaled throughout. ⠀
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A sumptuous repast was served, The fact that the complaints in the after-dinner speeches were
bright and interesting, and variably come from users of load- Vaulendid programme of music by akong, and had romained good. number of well-known local artists kept the company in high spirits and helped the proceedings to go
RECEIVERS MORE FOOL-PROOF IF THE PROPHETS ARE RIGHT, Speakers points to a possible rea
AND SELECTIVE,
When radio grows up out of its Improvements that will make present state of infancy, there will
be no end to its powers, radio réception easier and more
New York.
son for the widespread opinion. Leaving out of discussion certain | halls which are well known to be with a swing.
extremely favourable to micro- phone reproduction, it is hardly likely that an outside broadcast, which can only be mide to trans mit speech and inpsic faithfully by the use of much loading and compensation, can be as good as that from a studio where every facility is present
!
Self-styled prophets already are enjoyable mark the beginning of inredicating wonders such as the with the necessity for lond-lines Mr.T. B. Pearce (the, Capt. of the victory in the Interport match.
world never dreamed, to become every-day matters under the spell of radio. Everything will be done radio, if these prophets are to be believed. We'll sleep, eat, walk and ride by radio.
this radio senson, as reflected in the recent Radio World's Fair in Receivers are more fool-proof, easier to tunc, more selective and highly sensitive. They are encásod In artistic boxes and consoles, so as to make them pleasant pieces of furniture suitable for any draw ing room.. Yet their prices on the average are no higher than of for
mer years.
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He paid a tribute to the vialting Capt. Barrett In Interport contests. skipper, mentioning that he met 22 years ago. They had fought since both in Shanghai and Hong- many battles against each other.
friends and he hoped they always should. He first met him when he came up from Singapore and on that occasion and the satisfaction The Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird (the of bowling him out after he had Mr. Hancock congratulated Capt. Vice Chairman presided, and was rande 36 runs.
on their supported by Capt. E. 1. M. Barrett Hongkong team), Sir Henry Gollan, Theros med l (the Capt. of the Shangbal team), Barrett and his team
two names Capt. colonel Russell Brown, Colonel Barrett had left out of his speech. Edmeades, Mr. H.R.B. Hancock, Dr. Obviously he could not refer to O'Hara, Mr. R. Sutherland, Dr. that masterly first innings of his, H. H. Morris and Mr. D. W. Leach. and then there was Donald Leach Proposing the toast of the Shang-who, he thought he could say, in Every one of our five senses, and
hat and Hongkong Interport teams, batting, bowling and fielding, was Probably the reason that so the Chairman, who was received the mainstay of the Shanghai: ·
A Social Game. perhaps even our sixth, will be satisfied by radio. We'll be the many Hsteners get better results with cheers, remarked that, that leani
from outside broadcasts is that was probably the last Interport
Continuing Mr. Hancock Bald: wonders of wonders.
of the dinner he should attend and that, It is the inherent right of all of there is less modulation
son why Mr. Dyer had asked him very, trying times during the last the radio field is the trend toward take advantage of this right when which are being worked near their to preside that evening. He had, 18 months. Although there would The outstanding improvement in us to predict. Especially do we carrier in these cases, and sets he thought, was probably the rea-We have all of us been through simplicity of operation. The something new and thought-pro-limits are in no danger of being he believed, attended every Inter-be some who would cavil at an Receivers fitted with port dinner for the last 35 years, abandonment of work for a few single tuning control is almost voking arises. We let our intagin-overloaded.
form of volume-control and he was indeed proud to have universal. The only other controls ation soar and, based on the won- some
number, and we can consider this on the panels of the receiving sets ders already attained through can usually be made to give the honour of volcoming them all days, I think they are very few in
The Chairman thought it was a Interport more as an oasis in the.. are a volume control and a vernier. Acientific achievement, it rises to equally good results whatever the there that evening. There are receivers with two and much higher levels than the wild source of transmission, with the great compliment to Hongkong that desert of our troubles than as. three tuning dials, but even these est thoughts of all Jules Vernes proviso that there is, usually, the Shanghai team were in such a waste of time. I am perfectly
of the past.
small balance in favour of the hurry to get to the Colony that they sure all of us will return to our with old friendships are so arranged that they may be
atudio transmission.
decided to take a short cut and labours operated as tine, by interlocking
come overland (Laughter). Short strongthened and new ones form- the condensers.
cuta, however, usually turned out to ed. No real loss is sustained by be the longest way round. (Re-visits of this kind between the two ports and I am quite sure only newed laughter).
He was Bure all would join with good results. him in sympathising with their old! "As Capt. Barrett said, cricket friend "Dick" Hancock in not be- is still our national game, and I ing able to play in the Interport hope it will always remain 80. match and in hoping that in a few All of us can learn many things days a little rest would set him from it mutual respect for each right again. In his first lieu- other, self-restraint and the spirit tenant, "Tam" Pearce, Hongkong of true sportsmanship. It is a had a worthy substitute, who a very humanising game, and I think most led his men to victory in one I might say it is entirely unselfish. of the most interesting and excit It is a great bond of union between ing matches he had ever seen.
us, and it is a social game of the best kind, and whether you win or lose does not really matter two straws. It leaves no stain on the
(Applause). past and no burden on the future."
MORE TUBES IN SETS.
FINAL GODSEND...
And so we get from one pro-
that phet to-day the prediction radio will be the final God-send of the universe. It will deliver our
The second big step in this sea- son's radio progress, and a, surcoal to our doors. It will give us prise to many interested in the in- daily bread with the case to which dustry, is the development of re only a choice few to-day are ac- ceivers with more tubes, rather customed. than the elimination of tubes. The It will grow our fruits and vege- three-tube receiver couldn't be dis-tables almost without our own la covered among the 800 exhibits.bour. It will lengthen our days Most were receivers with tubes and shorten our rest periods, yet running from five to nine in nume all this for our own blissful plea-
ber.
receivers are no more.
BETTER TUDES, 100.
sures
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BIG VALVES FAVOURED.
There is, as yet, no sign of finality in valve design. Improve ments are being made slowly, but surely, and the direction of the improvements is towards a reduc- tion of the power needed to work the valve, whilst maintaining or increasing the efficiency of the
Brighter Cricket. valve for the work it is intended
"We have," continued the Chair to do. A reduction in the power man, "read a great deal of late in necessary to work the valve means the Home papers about brightening a reduction in the distance sepa- cricket. There have been all sorts rating the electrodes, and each of suggestions about adding an
After having expressed the hope change brings its own problems, other stump, widening the stumps, The chief difficulty is in obtaining reducing the width of the bat, and that all cricketers both in Shang a uniform standard of perform-I even remember in a play I saw, hai and Hongkong would do their one of the characters playing the best to see that the old national ance once the valve passes from
game with a soft ball. (Laughter). game of England was kept as un- the experimental to the manufache trouble is that cricket has pre-spoiled as ever, Mr. Hancock pre-
gressed too far. It has got too seated Capt. Barrett with the strategic.What we want to-day is Hongkong flag, which he hoped Whilst the manufacturers are to put cricket back 25 years. I am he would keep as a souvenir of a fully alive to the great demand for sure it was a better game then so very historic match. (Applause). economical valves that will give a far as on-lookers were concerned good and I believe it was a better game reasonable volume and quality reproduction from the loud- for the players too." speaker, there is also a growing
Young Blood Wanted.
..
O'Hara's Match. Mr. T. E. Pearce, who proposed the health of the guests, expres- sed the view that the Interport in history AS
Radio Tréquency sets, with even Another self-appointed prophet four stages of radio frequency of radio has it that a few years heretofore, thought impracticable (hence will see us crossing the will hold their own against the occan on pilotless ships and in neutrodynes und superhets. These radio-directed airplanes. Wars are the three prevailing types of will be fought without men, ex- hookups, Regenerative and reflex cept these at the radio-control Perhaps levers far from the scenes of bat- the reflex will return, improved, tle. but it hasn't shows up this year. Some of these predictions, to be
With more tubes comes the loop. sure, are results of genuine fore-turing stage. More receivers, heretofore sold for sight based on effects already ob- outside aerial use, are being made tained in the field of radio
Use of the There's television for instance. for loop reception. loop requires more tubes for crude form but promising.
We have that to-day-in very stronger operation.
There's also radio control of
The Chairman regretted that so would go down trains and other moving objects demand in the opposite direction. Use of the loop also is justified the ultimate in this field--radio able power, are easier to use for cannot understand what the young of the game, Dr. O'Hara's bowling
This lets us predict with reason Large valves, consuming consider. fow of the younger generation who O'Hara's match. For three-quar-A
came out East played cricket. "ters of an hour during the course by the introduction of power tubes trolled war-ships and airplanes in loud-speaker working if the neces fellowa do after they leave the was as good as anything seen in for audio amplification, and 21
sary power in the way of filament office," he remarked, amid laugh- firet class Club cricket at Home much more sensitive fabe for de-future wars.
But there's nothing as yet on heat and plate voltage can be sup-
ter. "I am sure there is more or, in second class country cricket, tection. These are the innovations which we could base such predic-lied to them without unduly satisfaction in hitting O'Hara and also quite as good as a lot of in vacuum tubes. To make the tions as have been attempted by draining batteries.
Lobster Reed or Cantrell out of bowling in first class county loop aerial even more practicable, Home brave enthusiasts-eating,
the ground than in becoming pro- receivers. are being shielded
ficient in that abortion of a dance matches. On more than one occa- against internal interference and sleeping and even thinking by
called the Charleston, when the sion he, Mr. Pearce, was sanguine would for greater sensitvity and selet-radio, and all that.
couples look as it they had sudden that the Hongkong team tivity.
(Laughter and applause). They end and saved the situation for must have young blood to take the Shanghai.
Mr. Pearce endorsed all that place of the old warriors like Barrett, O'Hara, "Dick" Hancock, had been said by previous speakers "Tam" Pearce and "Lobster" Reed, with regard, to the absence from for there would soon come a time the team of "Dick" Hancock, and when they would be taldng. their asked them to appreciate the dif- place among the onlookers. (Ap-ficult situation that he found him-. plause).
self in having to, Captain an Inter- The Visiting Skipper. port team after having only been Capt. Barrett, replying, express- back in the Colony for a week. ed hearty thanks, at the outset of Every man on the side supported his speech, for the kind hospitality him loyally and he took that op extended to the members of the portunity of thanking them pub- San Francisco, Nov. 18. Shanghat team during their stay licly, as he had done privately, He always folt, for all they had done. Although The death has occurred of in Hongkong.
when he came to Hongkong, that the occasion was strenuous and Georgo Sterling.-
he had more friends in the Colony strained, they all kept their heads, Renter's American Service.
than in Shanghai, the reason being George Sterling was born at that they did not know him here and that was the beat tribute he
could pay them.: so well. (Laughter). They're both A and B battery Framingham,
To Turn the Tables. Mass.-Everett Sag Harbour, N. Y., in 1869, and Capt. Barrett expressed heen re- eliminators, although the B type is Gills, local radio amateur, recent was educated privately and at St
He hoped when Hongkong went grot at the absence of "Dick" Han- more general. These are of three ly carried on a three-cornered con- Charles College, Ellicott City. cock from the Hongkong team, to Shanghai next May, in the kinds, depending on the rectifier versation with an amateur in Eng Md. He was a Socialist, find a "Dick" Hancock, to his mind, re absence of Mr. Hancock on leave, employed, the device that convertslund and another in New Zealand. member, among others, of the the 100-volt alternating current of) The three stations exchanged
möre
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Now that power supply from the house mains, either direct or al- ternating current, is past the ex- If these did come. truc this porimental stage, these big valvesly trampled in a hornet's nest win, but Isaacs popped up at the For clearer reproduction, audio world, would begin to be a drab, are coming into general favour. transformers in receiving sets are uninteresting old globe.
We'd being made larger to cover the en-have nothing more to live for, no- tire range of voice and instrument thing to work for, no competition without distortion.. And loud to make life worth while. speakers are being made.
'That's a prediction, too, but it's sensitive and powerful. The cone one based on the wild dreams of type prevails.
other prophets and therefore de- For the operation of these im-pendent altogether on their ful- proved receivers, battery elimina-fillment. tors of all sorts are being shown this year. In fact, more than 50 aue. firms now are producing more than 80 different types of battery cli- minators.
FEW "A" ELIMINATORS:
Which, let's pray, will never en-
OBITUARY.
AN AMERICAN SOCIALIST POET.
THREE STATIONS CONVERSE, the poet
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in 1903.
the house line into the direct cur-greetings and news for several Bohemian Club at Frisco. His rent required for the receiver hours and finally left each other first book of poems was published ranging from 22 1-2 volts to 136 8e that the Englishman could go and even more. volts.
to this morning's work, Gibbs could One type of rectifier is the Ray turn in for some late sleep, and theon, which is designed on the the New Zealander could eat his Seétron bombardment principle. lunch! Another is the thermionic rectifier, as the Rectron tubes. And the third is the chemical rectifier. All have equal representation this year.
CHESS PLAYED BY RADIO.
....
presented all that was best in they would do him the honour of cricket, and they could, ill-afford to again captaining the side, and they feld. (Hear, hear). He hoped tables. He thanked Hayward for e. such a good sportsman on the would then endeavour to turn the that he would soon be restored to his valuable advice and assistance. his normal health and be leading throughout the game, the Hongkong team-again. (Ap plause).
Looking back on the match, the home captain thought the only The Night Sort of Cricket. serious blunder he made was in Prague, October, 6.-Recent re- Speaking of the Interport match, not taking the stand that at 12 Forts from Russia show that the Capt. Barrett expressed the opinion o'clock on Tuesday the wicket waa reintroduction of the sale of vodka Shanghat were lucky to win. It in hardly a fit state for continu- was the most exciting and extra-ing the match. As matters turn- is having a serious effect both on ordinary match he had over played ed out it had no effect on the play, morals and on the whole industrial in. Luck went first one way and but it might, he admitted, have system. Drunkenness among the then the other. With all due been a serious blunder on his part. Some receivers are designed to Manila. An all-night interna-workers a more than ever a respect to Test match cricket, ho In submitting the toast of the take current direct from the hous: tional chess match was conducted scourge, and critics in the Soviet lino. They have rectifying medi-by radio amateurs between the Press itself declare that, in spite ums fastalled as part of the out-Filipino chess champion playing of orders from the Central Council, fits. The show falled to bring out the match from a local amatour the factory managers have not the a receiver with A. C. tubes, to take atation against a combination of courage to combat the evil, and the current directly from the A. C. Chinese champions in Shanghai, their position is not made any Four things stood out in the there was no doubt about it that power lines,
The various moves were transmit- casior by interference from the Despite these improvements, ted by amateur radio stations in workers' organisations. It appears however, A and B batteries are still each country. The Chinese play that the good work done by Dzer- holding on their popularity, for ors won. Manila enthusiasts are jinsky, during his directorship of there are many homes in those now arranging to conduct a match industry to introduce discipline in United States that aren't wired with American chess players to the factories has been to a great for electricity.
through amateur stations."
extent nullfed by this step.
must say that if they could get guests, Mr. Pearce spoke of the cricket. of this sort played in the encouragement their presence spirit in which it had been played gave both to old and young the last few days, Test match cricket could go to the devil. cricketers. (Applauso), (Laughter).
Sir Henry Golian, replying, sald
match. There was "Tam Pearce's the best team won, but it might first innings, O'Hara's bowling, just ne easily have lost. He would the folding, especially that of the have been a very rash prophet Shanghal team in Hongkong's who would have ventured to have second innings, and the wonderful predicted the result before the ating display of Isaacs at the winning hit was made (Ap- end. (Applause), plause).
As a parting word of advice to Colonel Russell Brown also ra young cricketers, Capt. Barrett piled.