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HEARING BRITAIN. AUSTRIA'S PROGRESS RADIO IN AMERICA.
SHORT WAVE FOR CONCERTS.
short-wave The ereation of a wireless broadeast station is urged by wireless enthusiasts in Bri- tain and the Dominions, in view of the successful results attending. the use of short wave lengths in other directions, says the "Daily Mail."
At presehs listeners in Australia, Canada, Now Zealand, and other distant parts have little opportunity of hearing concerts broadcast from Britain.
It was
stated that American broadcast stations are heard better in Britain than B.B.C. stations are heard in Ameries, and two of the chief United States statione broadcast on short wave-lengths.
Permission for the erection of a
station shortwave
In Britain rests with the Postmaster-General
and the prospects of auch a station have been widely discussed by
B.B.C. officials.
Amateur experimenters have achieved remarkable results, using a wave-length of about 40 metres and it is pointed out that a short
broadcast station. which could be heard
Wave
in
FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND TRAINS.
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FIVE MILLION HOMES" EQUIPPED..
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More than 6,000,000 homes in the United States are equipped with some sort of radio receiving appara- Hawloy, bus,, according to J. B. chairman of the statistical commit tee of the Radio Manufacturers' As-
Bociation.
"The problem of establishing mutual radio connection between the head station of a Are brigade and the are engines while on the move has been solved for the Arst time by the fre, brigade of the city of Vienna, Herr Anton Wagner,
The detailed, table of Statistics the commander of this institution, prepared by Hawley Shows, that informed a representative of The while in 1920 only $7,000 sets were Christian Science Monitor." Wein operation, to-day the use of have been carrying on experiments radic receivers is increasing at the from March 1923 until fust August, rate of 1,000,000 a year
Radio manufacturers' when we obtained, at last, satis- factory results, by the application of figures have leaped from $60,000,000 short waves measuring from 30 to in 1922 to $530,000.000 in 1926. 60 metres instead of the wave-This figure includes not only money lengths used at former trials which paid for complete sets bat for parts were between 300 and 400 metres." and accessories used in building home made receivers or improving sets purchased from manufacturers.
The difculty, if nct impossibility of communicating with "the Bremen from the head station,, once they had left it, had proved, it appears, a
draw. back especially cases where the fire broke out las in the night
sales
The March of Progress. The distinct trend toward the
manufactured complete set during the five years covered by the manu- or in thinly populate districts at facturers' figures is plainly Indi the outskirts of the city with scat-cated by the amount of money pald tered buildings. The introduction out by radio fans for complete sets of radio service in all seven soc.and for parts. tons of the city fire brigade by Atting the cars with a two or three tube set of 20 watts each and a fold
In 1922. parts led with sales $40,000,000, while sets trailed only $5,000,000.
con-
This ratio was most
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parts of the world, would be ing aerial will now provide for the valuable propaganda ngent fornecessary communication, Great Britain.
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Broadenst concerts have been re- layed to amateurs 12,000 miles away by experimenters using fraction of the power employed by broadcast alations on the standard wavelength band,”
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AIRCRAFT WIRELESS.
Telegraphists on Air Liners.
siderably cut in 1923,
manufae-
turera selling $75,000,000 worth of This enables each head station to parts to $16,000,000 worth of sets, ascertain in the briefest space of The figures for 1926 show that fans time whether and when the fire bri-have paid $225,000,000 fer sets, and gade has reached safely the scene only, $75,000,000 for parts.
of conflagration: the dispatch of Accessories, presumably loud- upplementary crew and imple-speakers, cabinets, tubes, batteries, ments, required; the return of eliminators, etc... top the price paid such care or implements as can be for sets by $8,000,000, dispensed with, and the directing of The use of sets in the United them to some other place where they States since 1920 has leaped for. may be needed, and the redirectionward as follows: 1920, 37,000 sets of the fire ongines, if driving, to an in oparation: 1921. 75,000: 1922, inaccurately given address or the 150.000 3023, 2,000,000; 1924, recall of the brigade, should the fire 3,000,000; 1925, 4,000,000; 1926, have been extinguished in the mean-5,000,000. time.
RADIO CARDS.
New Use For Atlantic Service.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1927.
DAILY CROSS WORD PUZZLE.
(This gross-woord puzile has been made by an sæpert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably eura, These will give you a chute to other words crossing them, and they in turn. to still others. A letter belongs in each white space,, words starting at the sumbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issus along with a new crcae-word puzzle.)
In order to bring into effect the decision of the International Com“.
Questioned regarding the intro- mission for Aerial Navigation that
duction of this system in the fire wireless telegraphy instand of wire-
ess telephony shall be used for brigades of other cities the com- normat communication between amander stated that trials in Berlin ners and aerodrome ground staand Salzburg, though carried on for some time with more or less, suc- tions, which was embodied in recess, had not yet led to the actual
The Daily Telegraph's" Wirelesa lations which came into force as the application of radio for fire brigade correspondent writee: This year for beginning of this year flying service. But he hoped that the ex- the first time in history Christmas mechanics of Imperial Airways Ltd. ample es by Vienna would be soon cards have been sent by wireless. ure being trained as wireless opera followed ather cities do as to in- They have taken the form of auto- tors at the Mureoni Company's col
sure the utmost promptness and em- graphed photographs inscribed with lege at Chelmsford. Hitherto wire cfeney in this kind of rescue work.... seasonable greetings, and have been less telephony "has been employed
Another progress made in the feldashed across the Atlantic by for the convenience of pilots, who have themselves been able to speak of radiocasting here which focuses means of the new Marconi wireless photograph service, which began direct to the traffic control tower public attention is the equipment of
offeer at Croydon or to the
express trains with receivers. The operations early in the year. Ad- MOTOR-CAR WITH WIRELESS. ia
dressed to various prominent people | first concert. given to railroad pas-
on the charge of any other nerodrome.
A motorist, who was summoned sengers proved a success as a result both in this, country and
novel Continent, these
wireless With the increasing volume of air
Bow-street Police-court, of which special radio, cars were traffic, however, it has been cointroduced on three of the most fre
Christmas cards have in some in-at sidered advisable to relieve the pilot quented lines; from Vienna to Graz, stances been forwarded by air mail causing an obstruction, by leaving
large of
passenger carrying the capital of Syria, to Klagenfurt, in order to reach their destination his car unattended for two hours
in time. A picture can be trane- machines of this duty, and morse the capital of Carinthia, and code telegraphy is now gradually to Passa, the frontier station in of the Atlantic in about half an the can always attracted a lot of mitted and recorded on either side and a half, told the magistrate that. be introduced in order to speed up Bavaria.
hour, which means that photo attention because it was the first To traffic and avoid confusion."
Christmas graph inscribed with
provide for this. change the reguln tions lay down that all machines carrying ten or more passengers must include a qualified wireless operator in the personnel, who will give his undivided attention to the wireless service.
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Each radio car accommodating. listeners from all three classes is fit ted with a seven-valve heterodyne set...especially constructed for this purpose and an L-shaped aerial consisting of a simpla insulated wire, 17 yards long and fastered on small wooden plugs along the roofs of the cars. It is planned to equip by degrees, all passenger conches of radio trains with contact
No change in the apparatus used on Imperial Airways machines will be involved, as the Marconi AP 6 aircraft set, which is their | bolts and new headphones exceed standard equipment, is designed soingly light in weight. that it may be used either as telephone or telegraph transmitter by the simple movemout of 2 Bwitch. This facility has always been available with this class
of Marconi apparatusy but by using telephony it has hitherto been pos sible for the wireless service to be eonducted by the pilot himself. Wireless telephony can still be used, when desired:
ANTI-COLLISION DEVICE.
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It is worth mentioning that the good quality of tone during the drive was only disturbed in tunnels. Among the sanding stations heard, Vienna, Budapest, Frankfurt, and particularly Breslau in Germany gave fine programmes.
PIANO LOUD SPEAKER.
Improvement in wireless recep- tion has been carried a step fon- ward by a young London amateur enthusiast, who has invented an at-
which converts an
Invention of a radio device to be tachment
ordinary piano into a loud speaker of remarkable purity.
used to prevent collision of ships during fogs and storms is annbune ed by the Federal Telegraph Com- The apparatues casily adapted pany of California. The sponsors to any piano, and it is ethirmed that of the instrument claim its value It eliminates the harsh, blurred has been proved by tests by the notes, and that both speech and United States lighthouse service. music are transmitted with remark-
The device, described as a low-able Adelity. powered automatic radio transmit- The secret of the success of the ter which sends out a characteristic signal over short distances, is for installation in pilot houses. Its signals can be heard by vessels By within a radius of 10 miles. use of a radio compass the exact location of ships sounding the signal can be quickly determined.
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invention is the wido register and the immediate expansion of avund over the full compass of the piano. The low frequencies which are more or less distorted on the or dinary loud speaker are rendered as natural as they are in the con- cert hall.
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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNNGATIA
THE HONG KONG
In imposing a fine of 208. Sir So far only a few radio Christmas "Chartres Biron remarked that if the cards have been sent, but I learn car enused a crowd to assemble the that a record number of people are obstruction would be all the this year availing themselves of the greater. opportunity of sending ordinary messages of greeting to all parts of the world by wireless. The cost of such massages is very moderate, it being possible to send Christmas radiograms to America for 38. a word, and to the Continent for 2d. a word. Another interesting use to which wireless can be put is in the despatch of flowers and bouquets to addresses in America and Britain. This is effected by a mutual ar- rangement between big florist firma on both sides of the Atlantic, who guarantee to deliver similar flowera to those scen by the purchaser, at the address given. Instructions are sent by wireless, with the re- sult that the gift, can be delivered the same day at its destination many thousands of miles away. In the wireless age of the future the extension of these ideas now being. adopted should deprive the thought of losing the mail of a great deal of its importance.
THE R.B.C. VIEW.
"Our correspondence shows that there is an increasing demand for classical music among all classes of people in all parts of the coun- try." "Daily Chronicle" represen tative was informed at Savoy Hill.
"Young people who have been brought up almost entirely on dance. music are beginning to appreciate classical music."
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