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YESTERDAY'S BOLUTION

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THE CHINA MAIL,

RADIO TOPICS

TO-DAY'S RADIO

BROADCAST BY Z. B. W.

ON 350 METRES

The following programme

ernment. Broadcasting

2.B.W. on 850 metres.

gramme. In some cases, the name of the commodity is specially men- tioned. For the privilege of having their names mentioned, the "advertisers" have to arrange for a part of the programme; for a num- ber of artists to be paid by them, will in short, they hire the use of the

Station

port.

Evening Programme. 8 p.m.-- (Victor & H.M.V. Records supplied through the courtesy of Messrs. S. Moutrie & Company),

CONTROL TUNING

MODERN RECEIVERS AND VALVES

INPUT AND OUTPUT

Although the modern receiver

The far

be broadcast to-day from the Gov-station for a given period of time. is employing more and yet more An example of this method was valves in its construction, the ten- the publicity given by A motor dency of the design. is towards company recently to the introdus simplicity of control, reducing, as 5.80-6.30 p.m. Demonstration tlon of a new model of car.

as possible, the number of Programme.

company "hired the time" of 45 controls and gadgets on the panel. 7.48 'p.m.-Evening Weather Re-stations all "tled" together by Through this Ригроле flament telephone lines in various States, ballast, or registers, and gang from Massachusetts to California, condensers, have come into exten- Several times dur-give use. When using a gang con- for an hour.

re danser all the circuits which are Ing the hour the announcer ferred to the name of the car, and subject to its control, have to be for the brief period of four minutes carefully designed and balanced Car com if the exact tuning to resonance of a representative of the pany spoke about the new model every circuit is to be obtained. Thus We Be how the value of The difficulty of doing this is re- an advertising cognlaed by the manufacturers, of broadcasting as medium is appreciated. So long gang condensers and generally as the advertising or propaganda some compensating device, such as le carried out in a manner calculata amall condenser, in parallel with ed not to offend the tastes of the main tusing unit, is included. listeners, there does not appear to To obtain the best results from be much to object to in the methods. this kind of control, it is absolute- ly necessary that the input and out- REDUCING STRAY CAPACITIES put circuits of every valve should |

"Clowns in Clover," Selection,

The New Mayfair Orchestra. "Marmuring Breezes" and "Angels Guard Thee," Tenor,

Leonard Gowings, "Petrouchka Sulte" (Stravinsky),

Boston Symphony Orchestra. "Apollon Muangete" Ballet,

In radio frequency transformers the highest gain is obtained when the magnetic coupling is greatest and when the capacity coupling

Boston Symphony Orchestra. "Little Lady Of The Moon" and "Bird Song At Eventide," Tenor,

Sydney Coltham. "Valse Brillante" and

have the same characteristics. ex- "Valse Caprice," Piano Solo,

actly, so that intending construc- Ignace Jan Paderewsk!.

tors of circuits such as these "Peer Gynt Suite No. 2,"

need to be very careful both in the H.M.V. New Light Symphony Orch.

layout and wiring of their sets. "The Sweetest Flower That Blows" is at a minimum. Selectivity of The balancing is a condition that

and

the transformer la also governed may be fairly easily fulfilled in "On The Banks Of Allan Water," by the value of the capacity regard to the coupling and tuning Contralto, Edna Thornton.coupling between the primary and circuits of every valve but the first. secondary colls And when the The tuned circuit of the first valve "The Question" and "The Answer," Organ Solo,

capacity coupling is large the is coupled to the merial, and as the Reginald Goss-Custard. neutralisation is difficult and in aerial circuit has not, in most some cases impossible to obtain.cases, the same characteristics as "Spanish Dance No. 3" and

The following suggestion is not the plate circult of any of the "Triana," H.M.V. New Light Symphony Orch. offered as a cure-all, but tests have high frequency amplifying valves proved that the Improved results it will be found that the first con- "Sometime" and

in a receiver's operation more than denser will not readily tune "Dreamin' Time", Soprano,

trouble exact step with the other tuning Amelita Galli-Curci. compensate for the little "Spanish Dance No. 1 and

necessary. to make the change condensers. . This condition will be This suggestion is the use of small observed even if the tuning con- "Spanish Dance No..2," HM.V. New Light Symphony Orch.aize wire on the primary coll, pre-densers and coil of this valve are ferably enamelled. Any size be exactly the same as those of the "Father O'Flynn" and

tween 30 and 40 will function with other valve. This feature is, to a "Glorious Devon," Bass,

The 40 large extent, the reason why a lot complete satisfaction. gauge wire is rather difficult to of manufacturers or amateurs do "The Swan" and

down below a two-dial T solder, and it is suggested that no not get finer than 38 be used.

control, and Use a separate dial for the serial.

Robert Radford, "Moment Musical," Violincello Solo, -Pablo Casals. "The Yeoman's Wedding" and "Out Of The Night," Baritone

Percy Heming. "Pas Des Cymbales" and "(a) Air De Ballet" "(b) Callirhoe,"

The Band of H.M. Coldstream

"Carceleras" and

"Serenade," Soprano,

In

The use of the fine wire does not greatly affect the magnetle

The Dials coupling between the primary and

Although even a two-dial control secondary, but it does, by reduc- Ing the size of the primary for a is better, from an operating point given number of turns, almost make of view, than the usual three dials, it generally does not lend itself to the capacity coupling negligible. It will be found that after re-the simplicity of design on the Guards, winding the primary colls the panel that is the keynote of most. selectivity will be increased and of the modern manufactured sets. the neutralisation will be easier A method that will permit the to accomplish. And all this with ganging of all the tuning condensers out any decrease in signal strength. In a circuit employing one or more In fact, removing most of the stages of radio frequency amplifica- between the tion shows the valve "V" is the first! capacity coupling primary and secondary will permit valve in the main circuit, and it the use of a slightly larger primary, has its usual grid inductance “L” Nor- with resultant increased ampli-and tuning condenser "C". fication. A primary coil wound mally, the aerial and earth would Guarda. with this small enamelled wire be connected to the soil "A" in can be wound right over the the usual manner, but in the ar filament end of the secondary coil with but alight capacity between the two colls, less, in fact, than with larger wire separated a bit from the secondary.

Amelita Galli-Curci. 10.10 p.m.-News Bulletin, "Tango" and "Danse Espagnole," Violin Solo,

Fritz Kreisler. "Raymond-Overture" and "In A Persian Market,"

The Band Of H.M. Coldstream

God Save the King. 10.30 p.m.-Close Down.

BROADCASTING

No incident of general interest Ito the community is missed by the

WIRE RECORDS OF SOUND broadcasting directors. If it is of any Interest to the listeners,

A demonstration was given in every effort, and some extraordinary

London of a new apparatus for ones at that, is made to arrange recording sound by means of for the incident to be brought to the notice of listeners. The en terprise displayed by SLO in sending one of its principal men to Bunda- berg to meet Hinkler and get his voice for SLO listeners is an example of the keenness diaplayed tributed to Mr. Bernard Shaw. by broadcasters in gutting inter- These were "recorded" into a malero- esing items for the programmes. phone connected

magnetised wire. Among the Items recorded were a vocal solo, a whisti- ing solo, a small orchestral selection, and a recital of a burlesque of a short selection, from Macbeth at-

to the coils of

It is the same in all countries small electro-magnets, past the cores thin steel wire was con- where attractive. broadcasting of which

constant speed. The services are conducted energetically ducted at a (writes "Ray Dio," of SLO). There clectric, or acoustic, vibrations, It are not many such countries oer- was explained, ware concerted into tainly; but the desire to be of magnetic vibrations by the electro- service to listeners is gradually magnets, and in this way became becoming more evident. One of magnetically fixed on the steel the most remarkable countries in wire. After several minutes" wait- this respect is Russia. It is auring the

whole programme, by prising to learn of the extent to reversing the mechanical procese, which radio is being utilised by was reproduced through, a loud- the Soviet for the education and speaker including the announcer's entertainment of Russians, parti-remarks between the numbers.

struction.

cularly peasants in district for The reproductions were clear and removed from sources of normal strong, in volume, the tonal effect instruction, information, and en- resembling that of a fairly good tertainment. And as there are

gramophone. Members of the of peasants who many millions cannot read, the spoken word via audience also spoke into the machine radio is the Ideal medium for in- and heard the reproduction of their

volces Immediately afterwards.

Spomora of the scheme announced In America, of course, the brand that originally the idea was the casting services are more exten- oretically conceived by a Danish sive, and the stations more pitysicist, Mr. W. Poulsen, thirty merous than in any other country, years ago, but the practical realisat- Unlike the majority of the ser- tion of it was due to Dr. Curt Stille, vices in other countries, no charge who had spent twenty-three years in perfecting it. A British group, it was added, had obtained from a

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