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RADIO TOPICS
CABLE V. BEAM. WIRELESS WONDERS. MULTIDYNE THREE.
STATEMENT BY AUSTRALIA'S
PREMIER.
Canberra, Yesterday.
the next twelve months at the same rate as it had during the first two months..
AUSTRALIA HEARD IN
PENANG.
The programme
WAS
from 9.15 p.m. on Tuesday evening and was still in progress at 11.30
p.m.
NEW PRODUCT OF THE TELEFUNKEN CO.
The wireless station at Mel-
In these days when the tendency In the House of Representatives, bourne, Australia, BLO. inaugurat- of the radio manufacturers la to- Mr. Bruce said the position of theed their first short wave programme warda multi-valve sets of five tubes cable service since the develop recently and endeavoured to get the or more, it comes as a surprise that ment of the beam wireless system
bo re the famous Telefunken Company was serious and was becoming programme" to England to
has produced a new three-valve acute. It would be more so ahould layed there.
This surprise, however, is the beam system advance during
received unit.
rapidly dispelled when the set is put into operation, for it presents features of tone and distant, recep- tion that one usually accepts as being confined to nothing less than ve valves, Three-valve circuits have always lent themselves to a simple layout, and a reasonable casc of tuning, but the manufacturers of this set have evidently added several refinements to their pro- uct, thereby much enhancing its simplicity of operation and its quality of tone. The layout is neat, and practically all that is visible
It is proposed to appoint a com- mittee of representatives of the Governments concerned to meet in Great Britain to discuss the ques- tion. Reuter.
The Melbourne Wireless Station is working on a wave length of $2 metres, and the power used was 18 kilowatts.
Various people gave addresses to relative associations in England.
The speakers included the Presi dent of the Lawn Tennis Associa- the difference between tion, the Chief Police Officer of Vic- the crystal and the valve set? That torta, the Director of the American is a point which troubles many re-
SIMPLICITY OF VALVE SETS.
What is
ductances, the valves, and the con- tion, the Chairman, Victoria Athle- denser. Tuning is effected by n tic Association, and the Secretary one-dial control, with a vernier.
On test the nuit acts up to all for Immigration, Salvation Army.
that is claimed for it by the makers, Messages were sent from the Uni-and the results, as set out below, versity of Melbourne, the Victoria Rallway Commission, the President of No. 1 Melbourne Rotary Club, etc. All these said that if the pro- gramme was satisfactorily received in other countries it would be con- tinued.
For the purpose of the test, an en- can only be described as excellent.
tirely standard set was used, and so that there could be no interme-
were A
dinte alterations or adjustments made, the job was delivered to the writer in the sealed package in
standard dry battery of three cells, Which it arrived from the factory, The components used two dry-cell B batteries, and the "Blue Spot" speaker that is sup- plied as standard with the set. A test nerial of about forty feet of
cruits to the ranks of some Radio-University, President of the retir-Inside the cabinet are the two in- Ites, and is the cause of some mis-ed Soldiers and Sailors Associa- giving until they know whether or not the first set they have construct- ed is going to work. So far as the crystal set is concerned, they know what takes place when the broadcast programme is brought to their cars. They know the simple principle in- volved--that one-half of the impulse received actuates the ear-phones, while the remaining half, which is rejected by the crystal, is used to regulate the wavelength-but, when included excellent musical, items by The entire programme which also it comes to understanding a valve the principal artists in Melbourne circuit, they just cannot. And, con- was distinctly heard by V.S.-1A.C. sequently, in their first valve at Penang, by means of two powers of tempt they construct blindly folhead phones. The programme could lowing the instructions to the let-also have been heard, but only faint-wire, alung around the picture rail, ter, and hoping against hope that' they make no mistake in the wir
The Melbourne Station further ing.
Usually, the potential valve-set them in other countries might re- requested that people who heard owner is well "read" on the conse-port to them under what conditions quences of wrong wiring-burnt- and how the programme was re- out valves, burnt-out headphones, ceived by
them, and Penang and burnt-out transformers, not to V.S.-1A.C., is writting to them on mention a few disconcerting, though the subject. harmless, noises which may be set up. Lack of confidence very often: leads to lack of success, but, happi- ly, such failure is only temporary. A checking-over of the connections from the diagram, a tightening of any slack terminal, or a squeezing home of some ill-fitting valve ultim- ately leads to the entire satisfaction
of the listener,
But there is, after all, no reason why those about to advance from the crystal to the valve stage should not be able to understand just what they are doing. The matter is ad- mittedly a little more complex, but not unduly sc.
ly, on a loud speaker.
BROADCASTING STATIONS.
New British Scheme.
Captain Peter Eckersley, chief engineer of the British Broadcast- ing Corporation, who is returning from New York to England after attending the Radio Conference, stated that Britain may scrap her present radio stations in favour of twin wave length transmitters.
Captain Eckersley said that there was a scheme at present under de- velopment in Britain so that every- It must first be recognised that body on the simplest set might be employed in the crystal set in still If there was an evening of jazz for in the valve circuit the principle assured of a choice of programmes, employed, but there are, in addition, those who liked to dance to loud two electrical circuits. The differ-speakers, there would be broadcast ence, therefore, between the two simultaneously a programme of common types of receivers is that symphony music for the more seri- one consists of two circuits and the other of four,
ous-minded. He declared that the plan had already been commenced with the establishment of a twin wave station at Daventry.
WIRELESS IN THE F.M.S.
Mr. J. Gould Story, of Tapah, an
RADIO CONFERENCE. enthusiastic wireless amateur, writes to the "Malay Mail" telling
Status of Amateurs, of results achieved which are won- derful, considering the suggestions The Australian and New Zealand that have been made that wireless delegates at the International Radio broadcasting is not at all satisfac- Conference have joined with the tory in the F.M.S. He adds that United States and Canada in urg- there is one thing that goes to ing the technical sub-committee to prove how necessary the telegraph accord the same official recognition is, apart from wireless--in wireless to amateurs as to any other ata there is no secrecy. He picked up tion, that they be allowed to use
was used, and the whole of the test was made on this, no outside aerial The unpacking. was used at all. connecting up, and the tuning was had no previous experience in radio, carried out by a lad of ten, who had
other than that gleaned from the instructions forwarded with the outfit.
From a test point of view the night was a good one in which to try out the net. Static was bad, particularly on the distant stations, and the fact that the set was able to get in the various stations - re- flecta credit on the manufacturers. During the evening all the Austra- lan and class stations, and some of the B class, were brought in with good volume on the speaker, and no difficulty was at any time experienc ed in the tuning. Unfortunately, owing to our close proximity to the local station (One-mile), we
standard
were
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho,)
2
4
15 Ե
19
10
13
15
7
18
19
20
F22
123
125
26
27
128 129
30
131
32
133
35
36
37
36
39
પર
41
#2 43
чь
BL
49
50
SI
152
53 154
56
157
50
159
162
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65
166
167
160
70
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HORIZONTAL
1-To tolter 4-Principal 7-Proposition
-A unit 10-To soak up 12-A tooth projecting
from the surface of a' whoe! 13-To broli 15-Noise
17-Domestia variety
wild boar 18-Region in front of the ears (pl.) 20-Procured. 22-On 23-To lavish
extravagant fondness upon 24-Smell 26-Pronoun
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GÝMU INTEVNATIONAL SYNEKATE. HORIZONTAL (Cont.) St-Atitla
BS-To Inalte 55-Preposition
55-Deep hate 68-Situated
80-Of high temperaturs 61-A breach
63-To bring into
existence
VERTICAL (Cont.) 19-Bottom of the foot 21-8matt gull-like bird 23-8ays disparaging things about 25-Exocoding all
bounda
27-Pulla
29-A place of entrance
31-Dry moneuroment
64-To take stitches in 33-To hang down
of, 65-To make soft 67-Conjunction
27-A barnyard fowl 20-Condensad molature 30-To lick up 32-Sets in a particular
#pot
35-Bewall 37-Possessive pronoun 38-Disunite
39-A play on words 40-To unite 42-Gives
46-Look
46-Coloring matter 48-Finish 49-Preposition
34-To instigate legal
proceedings
meaning "and not 35-To petition 68-Racently come into 36-An Insect
exiatanca
69-Accustomed 70-Pellet of load VERTICAL
I-A large piece of
wood 2-Conjunction 3-Shaped 4-Ripo
5-Part of verb "to be" 6-An Inclination of
the head
7-Low, dense aloude To bite slightly (11-A small hog
12-A narrow bed 18-Procure 14-Conducted 16-At this time.
17-A fastening 18-Characteristic
Bound
40-A store
41-Furnish with a
celting
43-The stem of isl
OPALI 44-A blemish 46-Respectable 47-Those who nat 60-A small pear shaped fruit
102-To steal 54-Wager
65-To drag through the
wator
(87-A light knock
59-In the past
60-To felt with an axe G2-Animal's fock
-Fixed
GO-Act
68-Negative answer
The solution of the ones cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue awong with a new cross-word puzzle.)
DUPLEX TELEPHONING.
Successful Transmission.
Simultaneous telephonic recep-
unable to get in any of the southern stations until after Brisbane closed down, and for this reason we were unable to try for the New Zealand stations, as their closing down time
sults obtained, these oversens broad-phony between Australia and a corresponds to about half-past nine tion and transmission, which is be- in Queensland. Still, from the relieved to be the first duplex tele- cast should be well within the range foreign country, took place between of the set. Taking it all round, the W. E. Coxon's experimental station performance of the unit is very 6AG. Perth, and Mr. De Groot creditable, and is quite up to the (PXI), retired tea planter of Java,
what one would expect from a company as famous as the for over three hours. Preas repre-
sentatives were Telefunken.
at both stations, Apart from the pleasing appear-and a conversation was held with ance of the layout, and the general Mr. Fritz Rupae, editor of the neatness of design of the set, it is "Indian Daily News.” one that should appeal to all users. both town and country, en account of its economy of operation, The three valves employed take the small amount of eighteen hun- thus making operation from dry dredths of an ampere altogether, cells quite economical. This factor, to people who are in places where battery charging facilities are not available, will come as a great boon, for the modern home is not com- plete without, a radio, and undoubt-
out this convenience simply on ac-
· INFLUENCE OF THE ROOF.
a Morse message dealing with re- short wave lengths, that the alloca-edly many homes have been with- pairs to an Admiralty ship, a meg- tion of amateur wave lengths be count of the difficulty of battery re- sage cancelling an order, a Dutch- agreed upon, and also that each na-newals. man "screaming for a station," tion determine amateur powers ac- Sydney broadcasting, Holland talk-cording to its national conditiona ing nightly to Java (a two-way and desires. conversation), Bandoeng coming in Mcaars. H. P. Brown, Ross, A. with a concert, West Australia Hull, and A. Gibbs spoke urging saying good night, and the Austra- that the value of the amateur lian beam station working overtime. should be recognised. Melbourne is broadcasting the Cup race from SLO Melbourne. We shall, of course, be glad to give. publicity to wireless news and notes from any who are experimenting in Malaya.
BEAM TELEPHONY.
London, Nov. 1. A test will shortly be made of a Beam telephone service between England and Australia,
What of your roof? Are you aware that the "Lid" of your house can make or mar your reception? Such is a fact. If the roof is made of steel girders, if it is leaded, if the aerial passes near or is secur- TICKLING THROAT.
ed to a metal chimney or a metal ing experience caused by a bit of Did you ever have that nerve-rack-
ventilating shaft, your signals will mucus or phlegm that stubbornly re- suffer.
fuses to
dislodged, but tickles and The worst type of roof. Is cer- tickles until it sometimes almost tainly the flat leaded type. This strangles? Just a few sips of Chan-absorbs wireless waves to such an berlain's Cough Remedy, swallowed
very slowly and allowed to glide down extent that loud-speaker, reception the throat, will stop that tickle and is sometimes well-nigh an impos. at once give you immense rolief. Try sibility. The only cure fa to get bronchial and other coughs. For sale it that way too for hoarseness, the aerial as far above it and na everywhere.
far away from it as possible.
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