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RADIO AND PHONOGRAPH IN SAME ROOM.

"Wireless is, all right, but i would sooner, have a Traph."

think phono-

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The Duchess of Atholl, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, speaking at

This remark is sometimes heard 'the Jubileo celebration meeting in

when conversation turns on the connection with the Hackney subject of having a set in the home. Downe Schools, formerly known as The statement. is interesting be- the Grocers' Company School, said cause it indicates, to an extent, how that were some who thought that the average man who does not wireless would take the place of possess a radio set regards wire- reading, but however much theyless Evidently he thinks of Wire- might welcome the introduction of broadcasting Into their homes, .or howavor much pleasure they might derive from it. let them not. think that broadcasting could ever do what a good book could do for thom.

less and the phonograph as rivala, fulfilling the same. function, and no need to bother about the other.

NOTES FOR ROVERS,

RESHUFFLE BY GERMAN STATIONS:

There has been a slight reshuffle or wave lengths among six German stations in time for the general change over to the Geneva scheme. This does not involve any departure from the general principle laid down by the International Office that, to avoid interference, stations. using exclusive wave longtha must. be separated by a frequency of ten second.. All the kilocycles a stations involved in the readjust- ment have exclusive wavs lengths, --Germany was allotted twelve

This point of view is only half altogether--and it does not seem correct. Both provide musical on- that the change over, will make s tertainment, but there the compuri-great deal of, difference. to British Ron ends. The phonograph brings listeners who go roving Under For one thing,, no matter how into the home reproductions of the the new arrangement Frankfurt wide might be the scope of the voices of the world's best (and has exchanged wave lengths, with Hamburg, Hamburg with Leipzig, programme of the Broadcasting sometimes worst) artista; "it".sup.

Leipzig with Breslau, Breslaw with Corporation, they could not get theplies a means whereby those re- same opportunity of choice in any cords may do reproduced at will Konigsberg, and Konigsberg with Of these stations, programme presented as in the It takes, as it were, the nightingale Munster;

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case of bocks from good library. trill of a Melba and carves its won- The choice of those people responsible for broadcasting might be quite admirable, but after all human nature was infinite in its variety and taste, and she would be sorry indeed if any, ek pecially British boys, could be found ready to go through life en- tirely dependent upon the choicevention. and selection of someone else."

CLEARING MUZŻY SIGNALS.

It is frequently possible to re- ceive a distant station at fair strength and to hold it, but signals are so distorted that reception is It will of no practical value. usually be found that when this muzziness occurs the vanes of the variable condenser tuning the aerial circuit are either all out or all in.. This points to the use of coils too small or too large, and the remedy will be obvious.

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If, however, distortion takes place when the condenser seams to be tuning well within a reasonable wava-band the grid-leak should be substituted, and. after that, the grid condenser,

It is assumed that when this dia- tortion occurs the reaction la not being pushed too fars If it is, un couple, and, to get that very fas adjustment required, use a geared coil holder. A better plan perhaps under certain circumstances is to plug back the, H.T., thus reducing the plate potential of the first valve.

JIGGS-LISTEN TO MEW YOU GET LARRY DUGAN" TO RUN FOR ALDERMAN

I'VE BEEN ARCÜNDALOT AND WHATI HAVEN'T SEEN DON'T EXISTE

TEL LOOK! HIM UP!

Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Leipzig, all of which work on, high power, are most familiar to British lis- As far as Frankfurt" is toners. concerned the new adjustment is probably meant to make the change less drastic for local listeners, A big though there will still be

all the world to use, and for all the derful likeness in stone, there for

generations who will come after. That is the marvellous achievement of the phonograph, and in setting out the advantages, of radio there is no need to decry Edison's in-alteration when the station drops to 128.6 metres, while Hamburg will only have to alter its present wave length to 394.7 metres. Loip- zig in any event had to slide a long way down the scale, and changing over with Breslau to 3571, has only slightly helped matters.

Cup Broadcast,

One of the differences between the two is that radio deals with the thing that is; the phonograph with the thing" that has been. There is an important psychological difference. The record was made months ago the radio singer is singing now.

Radio combines musical enter- tainment with news, and the latter phase is growing. Nowadays few important social or sporting fix- tures are left unchronicled by the broadcaster. This, constitutes the vital difference between the two. Wireless gives on the "thing that is happening now-whether it be a song, a story; a Lord Mayor's re- ception, or a horse race. Those who listened to the broadcast des- cription of a race will understand that radio serves a purpose beyond the scope of the phonograph. There is room for both inventions.

For the last transmission by the British Broadcasting Company, on New Year's Eve, a special pro- gramme traced the growth of broad- casting in Britain from its earliest days.

SAY, PAT-WHERE CAN FIND LARRY DUGAN?

ROUND THE EMPIRE RADIO.

Details of a broadcasting scheine to link up the British Empize were given by Mr. G. L Marshall, Glas- gow broadcasting station director, 'In an address to the Publicity Club, He said that. transmissions from Dayentry would be received at Pic ton, New Brunswick, and conveyed across Canada by land line to Van- couver Island, where they would be retransmitted to Fanning. Island, in the Pacific, and thence to Sydney, New South Wales.

The signals would then be ro- layed to New Zealand and simul taneously sent by land line to Perth, then on to Bombay, and eventually back to Keston, Kent, through a repeater station in Cyprus, thus en- circling the globe.

The scheme was, he thought, going to be put into operation and would cost at least £1,000,000.

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