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RADIO TOPICS

PROBLEMS SOLVED.

ANSWERS PROVIDED BY ** EXPERT."

KNOTTY POINTS.

Outside Aerial.

BIRD SONGS.

BY MR. E.. S. LECTURE

WILKINSON, SHANGHAL

"Ts it possible to use an outside aerial on a sot that has been espe- cially constructed for use with a loop? I have a set that is not: giving quite the reception that I expected on the loop, and con- CLEVER CHINESE IMITATIONS. nected up the outside aerial to it.

on

the

common

"Is there any way that I can The net results were exactly no-

Listeners-in must have greatly thing; in fact, I couldn't even cut down the B battery consump-raise Brisbane. On the loop the enjoyed the lecture broadcast by tion of my five-valve set? The valves I am using at present are set works well on the local station the China Broadcasting Associn- four radiotron UX 201a and a UX and gives weak speaker strength tion 200 in the detector. At present under good conditions on all the of Shanghai. It I am using heavy-duty type a few Southern stations to good loud-ordinary weeks; in fact the last lot that I speaker strength." installed petered out after exact- ly 23 days of service. Is there any way that I could connect a resistance between the batteries, and the set to cut the current

set are in order,"

other stations.

birds .was no dry-as-dust lecture that Mr. E. S. Wilkinson "put on the air," so to speak, but a run-. ning and amusing commentary on bird life in this city, the crowning touch being added by the wonder- To do ful imitations of bird calls by "a Chinese friend of

as he did at the Lyceum. Asked to imitate the song of a Shanghai nightingale, he immediately broke a Chinese into the cackle of chicken after achieving the feat of laying an egg. There can be little doubt that bird fanciers the world over woll never be satisfied until they possess one of these wonderful chicken-nightingales.

An easy way to boost up the signals is to use the outside aerial in conjunction with the loop, after the manner of a magnetical ly coupled aerial circuit. this, connect the aerial to a 30 or Northern down? When the batteries are 35 turn honeycomb coil, and ours." new, and even till the voltage thence to earth.

Hold the coil This Chinese friend said he drops well below normal, the near the loop, and experiment as could makee the mosquito buzz: operation of the set is very good, to the best position. When this he could makee the baby cry; he and as far as I can test all the in-is obtained, the coil can be fasten- could makee the cuckoo cuck; and stallation and connections on the ed permanently to the loop. This could also makee the nightingale First of all it is necessary that method should enable the set to shout "And he could. But as the bring in the stations as with an Broadcaster announced, the Chin- the batteries be kept in a cool,outside aerial, but with the ad-ese friend, not knowing a great dry place. Batteries are very sus vantage that it is not so affected deal of English, was sometimes ceptible to heat in any form, and if left where the sun or the heaty static or interference from inclined to give wrong imitations, from a fire can get at them they

My Five-Valver. will deteriorate very quickly. By

My five-valver has developed keeping them in a cool place they will last probably three times as some trouble that I cannot seem long. You may still further re- to locate. Up to the holidays the duce the B battery consumption, set was working beautifully, but and at the same time boost the after a spell of a few weeks it has volume and clarity of your sign: gone quite flat, and I cannot get als, by the installation of a Canything out of it. At first, when battery. In your case a battery I switched on, the stations came

The "Harold Lloyd" Bird. of four and a half volts would in for a few minutes with the

"Don't take a gun when you go be ample, and should be connected usual pep, and on changing from to the set as follows:-Take off one station to another everything to look for birds in Shanghai," the wires leading from the minus went dead, and I have been unable said Mr. Wilkinson, but take a The pair of field glasses." Shanghai F of the transformers to the to get any results since. minus of the A battery, and con- batteries are all in order, and Ibirds, he added, were divided into nect them to the negative or have had the valves and the loud-three classes, the residents, minus terminal of the C battery.speaker tested. As far as I can visitors in the apring and summer, Connect the positive terminal of trace all the connections are OK. and those which migrated in the the C battery to the negative ter- in fact, there has been nothing to winter. There was a magpie truc set bas to the traditions of the magple The disturb them, as the minul of the A battery. battery itself will cost somewhere been most carefully handled. clan, and for whom the Chinese around three shillings, and will What is your opinion of the trou- had a fellow feeling; and another

ble?"

bird of more than passing interest last about 12 months, The use of it will cut the B battery current

The failure seems to be due to was the pied woodpecker which one of the transformer windings imitated the Indian watchman's down nearly half.

burning out. To test for this, rattle. If the noise were followed The Battery

disconnect the leads from the up it would amaze one how so "I have for some time been transformers, and with a battery small a bird could make such an charging my radio battery from and a pair of 'phones in series, circuit of lamps connected in test the primary and secondary of series with the battery of my each transformer for continuity. Delco plant. Now, however, A loud chick in the 'phones is a cannot get the middle cell to hold sign that everything is all right; usually caused by poor and weak a charge at all. In fact it does no click, or a very weak one, is brush connection, or a dirty.com not seen to take the charge, and indicative of a faulty winding, mutator, or a commutator that is when the other cells are full it is and the only thing to do is to re- out of round.

All these troubles quite dead.

The battery is the place the transformer. Should it are very easy to eliminate, and it usual radio type with the celluloid happen that you have no 'phones, will probably be found that if the containers, and from the outside the transformers may be tested commutator is trued up and the faulty cell seems to be in in the following manner: Con- cleaned, the noises in the set will order with the exception of a neet one end of the B battery to disappear. The local garage man whitish deposit on the plates. As the terminal of the primary should be able to do the job for we have no battery service sta-winding. Place the fingers across you at small cost. tions here, I would be pleased if the terminals of the secondary "Results from a three-valve set you could give me some hints for winding; then fick a wire from that I have recently constructed the correction of the fault, as the other primary terminal, If are very poor, and I would be through it my set is temporarily the transformer is O.K., a displeased if you could trace out the out of commission."

tinet shock will be felt at the trouble for me. The set is, built moment that the wire is flicked exactly to the enclosed circuit, across the terminal.

(Continued on Next Column.}

TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1928.

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.)

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128

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32

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HORIZONTAL

1-inliabited 6-Bitter medicinal

herb 7-Those who slay

treacherously

1[-Station 12-Killed 14-Form of Swiss

music

17-Stake 19-Corezi

20-Entreat

22-Former mayor of

New York 25-Part of a Rowor

(pl.) 27-Appearance 28-A small violin 29-Humorous fellow 30-Floor covering $1-Covered with a

glove

34-8pong stone

་

145

ÔTHE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

HORIZONTAL (Cont.)

|96–Girl's nickname

37-Obstruct

39-Prefix meaning

"not"

40-Postpone

42-Don 44-Surrender 40-Writion

compoaltions

48-Fusible mótal

VERTICAL (Cont.)

16-Color

18-Assembles

17-Famous English

poet 18-Symbol- 20-Started

21-Street child 23-Trouble

24-8et frea

25-Vital fuld af trees

|49-Political hangera on 26-Rosinovs substance

VERTICAL

*-Attituda

2-Speaker

-Sportion from

Inflamed tissue

4-Holder of lease

B-Feed

7-A trea

B-Speck

-Sick

(10-Rangs, of viclea {13-Betrethed

32-Tomb made of

masonry

33-Intimate friend 35-Styles

37-Seeld vehemently 38-French dramailat 40-Tool

used in cutting threads 41-Affirmative answer

49-Gay. 45-Lairo

47-To the time of

(Poetle)

(The solution of the above crossword puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

loud

rattle.

extraordinarily Ouzels, kingfishers, herons, kites, all abound. The ouzel, a queer thrust-like bird, had no song, but to counteract that there was the Harold Lloyd bird, a laughing bird with black rings around its eyes,

Wilkinson to deal with all the It was impossible for Mr. species of birds in China-there are round about 1,000-and his few solos by the bird imitator. A few cage birds absolutely refused to sing into the microphone, as it was expected they would.

lecture was rounded off with a

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WATER SUPPLY.

Level and Storage of water in. Ne-

servoirs on April 1, 1928:- CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER

Tytam

WORKS LEVEL.

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

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RED

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EASE LAV [{P}A|T{E} TIA

DESIRE

PAN

RAIMS SORT ERS AFDE 5

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KOWLOON WATER WORKS LEVEL

1927 1928 Kowloon Reservoir 17′ 9′′B 11′ 8′′B It is quite possible that the cell

Shek Lai Pul Reser-

voir

.21′ 6′′B 2' 0"B has a broken separator or buckled

and I have made certain that all

Reception Reservoir "B '11"B plates, thus causing them to

"Do you know of any way of joins, etc., are tight and clean.

Storage: of millions and decimals short-circuit, and discharge as overcoming the interference. The batteries and valves have

of gallons. 1927 1028

1927 1928 fast as the charge is put in. The caused from a generator working been tested out on another set,

.10' 1" 15' 10"B Kowloon Reservoir 198.39 245.40 only thing to do is to take the near the set? My set is situated and work perfectly. The aerial Tytam Byewashs...23′ 8′′E 226B Shek Lai Put Reservoir 28.60 108.00 cell apart and press the plates very close to a big lighting set in is about 80ft. long, and 30ft. high, Tytam Intermediate 22 0B 22 6B Reception Reservoir .. 27.03 20.73 straight or replace the faulty the town, and as soon as it is and the earth' is a piece of gal- Tytam Tuk .... 32' 9"B 43 1"B 15' 0"B 22 "B separator. To get the top off the switched on the set reproduces vanised iron buried in the ground Wong Nei Chung

18′ 0′′B 21′ "B cell cut slowly and gently round noises like a very strong and pro- about 3ft. I have tried other sets Pokfulam the join with a small knife, and longed static. I have tried the on the aerial system, and, al- [Note: B. denotes "Belaw Overflow": at the same time pour a few drops use of a counterpoise, and while though they do not give their A. denotes "Above Overflow.”] of amyl acetate on the join. Pour it certainly reduces the noises usual pep, they give very good re- Storage in millions and Decimals out the acid and gently lift the they are still bad enough to cause ception, or, at any rate, reception

of gallons. plates out of the container. Be a bad interruption to the various that is satisfactory to me." careful in handling the plates, as programmes.

The reaction coil is rather on In fact, it is even they are usually somewhat brittle, now impossible to get anything, the large side, and would tend to Tytam and if handled at all roughly will with the exception of a bandit, at choke the valve. I would suggest Tytam Intermediate collapse especially when they are all clearly. It would be, indeed, a that you take off at least 20 Tylam Tuk in a discharged condition.boon to use it one could get over turns. It is also possible that you Wong Nei Chung. Straighten the plates if necessary, the trouble."

have the

reaction connected Pokfulam and if the paste is still in the

The best way to overcome the wrongly, and that it is acting grids in reasonable quantities the difficulty is to get down to the against the aerial coil. Try re- cell may be assembled, filled with source of the trouble in the gen- versing the connection from the

Total .......... 240.02 384.18 Consumption of water in Kowloon in millions and decimals of gallons during the month of March.

1027 1028 Consumption

77:45 91.45 Estimated population 150,400 104,440 Consumption per head

per day

17,9 Fall Supply in all districts during 263.92 March 1927 and 1928,

1,67

16.0

The Government Analyst's reporta 91.40 show that the quality of the water is 578.75 satisfactory.

8,00

Tytam Byewash ....

1027 304,30 1.37

1928

98.20

751.74

18.72

27.24

1,101.00

Total

Total rainfall to March 31, 1927, 21.159.20, March 31, 1928, 10.84

964.08 HONGKONG HEIGHTS

For the information of visitors

highest points on the Island is pub- *lished:-

acid, and charged. The whitish erator. Under normal conditions plate and transformer.. You will and Hill District in millions and de- Consumption of water in the City deposit is sulphate of lead, caused a generator will not disturb a set, probably get better results from cimals of gallons during the month of the following list of Rome of the Printers,

through the cell being in a dis- but immediately any little fault the use of a counterpoise instead March. "THE CHINA MAIL," General charged condition. This may be develops the set will reproduce it. of the earth system that you

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Consumption per head

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removed by giving the cell a long The cause of the trouble in your have at present. This consists Consumption Ja, Wyndham Street. Tol. C. 22. sible at a rate only one-third that to sparking at the commutator, br parallel with the other one, and

charge at very low rates, if postcase will probably be found due really of another nerial placed Estimated population 410,200 420,520

per day of the usual charging rate. to a loose or dirty connection directly underneath it, at a dis- Intermittent Supply in all Rider Charge until the deposit is nearly somewhere in the line. Both tance of about 6ft. from the Main Districte gone. If the sulphation is at all these troubles upset the efficiency ground. It should be insulated an road during March, 1027, and had it will probably require of the plant as well as creating a carefully as the aerial proper, Full Supply in all rider main districts several charges before it can be disturbance in the set, and it will and is connected to the earth terest of Garden-rond during March, removed, but this will not.prevent he to the advantage of the owner minal of the set in place of, the

Intermittent supply in all Rider) ita being used in the meantime. to eradicate them. Sparking is usual earth wire.

Main Districts during March, 1028,

BRINGING UP FATHER.

1927 1928 218.75 218.57

Feet.

1823

1774

1784

west

of Garden-

1726

1725

1805

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1927.

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