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WIRELESS INDISCRETIONS.

EAST TO WEST.

AN INTERESTING VISIT TO RADIO MALABAR.

HULLO, LONDON ?"

In

thrown across the mountain cleft, transmitting was commenced. Sig- nals were sent out during certain hours of the day regularly, but there being no receiving Installa- tlons in Holland of any power, no results could be obtained. Improve- ments continued to be made at Malabar, however, and an old water- turbine was obtained from a min- ing company in Sumatra and later "Hullo, Amsterdam." The call a new dynamo purchased from can be heard practically any night Japan, of the week on loud speaker

To overcome the difficulty caused by the lack of an efficient receiving strength, even by those wireless station in Holland, a complete re- enthusiasts of Malaya who are the ceiving aet was made in the work-, humble possessors of only

two-shops of the Telegraph Service at valve rets. Will it be long before Batavia and placed on the Dutch

cruiser De Zaven Provincien. we in Singapore will be calling November 1918 the cruiser sailed London and talking to persona thou-for Holland via the Panama Canal sands of miles away in the same and reports were received from the way as the people in Java are able ship that the Malabar signals were to do? In view of the recent an-

regularly received.

nouncement that the Home Govern- ment were considering the question of establishing a wireless telephone service between Singapore and Lon- don, it may be of interest to know something about the great trana- mitting station, situated thousands of miles above sea level in a cleft of the Mountain Malabar, near Bandoeng, Java, which has made regular wireless telephony between Java and Europe possible.

The writer recently had the pri- vilege of being shown over the entire Malabar Station and a great deal of interesting information was supplied by the official in charge of the installation,

!

The drive to the Malabar Station is up the side of the mountain, the winding road taking one to the heart of the group of buildings that house the wonderful apparatus.

use.

The Amsterdam Receiver Station.

The set was ship and set up near Amsterdam. removed from the

The result was that Malabar signals were received but hardly well enough for regular communication. was rocking under the blows of the Those were times when the world

Great War and it was impossible to get a power transmitter built in Europe. Dr. De Groot therefore designed all the parts for a 2400 kw. arc transmitter and it was made. completely, in the East Indies. The transmitter central building, sufficient room be- was housed in a big

Ing Text for two 200 kw. spark transmittere and 1 Telefunken alternator transmitter of 400 kw. Two new aerials were constructed in the mountain-cleft, one of them reaching to the back end of the cleft.

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

With the completion of the "A Dream of Love",

station Kootwijk in Holland, a Wilhelm Bachaus,

great advance was made and experi- "Nuila"

Wilhelm Bachaus. Dr. De Groot's Pioneer Work. ments and improvements followed "Faust-The Lowel Song",

It was some Afteen years ago that until in 1927 a new era dawned and Elisabeth Ruthberg Dr. Ir. De Groot, in the course of a short-wave transmitter was placed "Faust-The King of Thule",

Elisabeth Rethberg, his promotion to the degree of in the Malabar Station, With "Seniiramide", Overture,

doctor in technical science, pro- the co-operation of the Phillips Victor Symphony Orchestra. claimed the theory that such a com- transmitting station "Duna"

Reinald Werrenrath.

at Eindhoven munication "Gypsy Love Song",

was a political neces- and the Dutch Post and Telegraph Reinald Werrenrath.sity and it was he who set out: to Service at Kootwijk the communica- "On Wings of Song",

prove that the scheme was tion was definitely established but Jascha Heifetztechnically possible. In those early Dr. de Groot did not live to see the "Joto, Puck"

Jascha Heifetz. "Vienna Blond",

days of wireless broadcasting and wonderful results of his pioneer Boston Symphony Orchestra. transmitting It was thought that work. He died on August 1st., "Voices of Spring",

Intermediary relaying stations 1927, on board the would be needed to send messages, Pleterszoon Coen on his way to steamer Jan stage by stage, from the East to the America to attend the radio con- West. Work was commenced with ference which was to be held at the erection of a receiving instal Washington. However, the good lation borrowed from the Tele work that he so capably started was funken Company at Tjankring, carried on. New apparatus has south of Bandoeng, and early in replaced the old, special aerials 1917 the installation was ready for have been constructed for short- Tests showed that several wave work and in 1928 a new short Bangkok, June 11.

European and American stations wave beam Wireless enthusiasts in Siam are could be received.

transmitter of great not as discreet as they might be or work was

A great deal of power was installed. At present done to ascertain the there are five short-wave transmit- should be. They have been allowed necessary power and wave-length ters, two of which are used for tele- to listen in and instead of realising for transmissions from Java to graph and telephone and the three sometimes that mil that passes Europe. Eventually the Malabarothers for telegraph only. There through the ether is not publice, Station came into being which ia are four antennae for long waves have been overloud in their confid-to-day one of the most powerful and five for short-waves In addition ences. Anyone can import a wire- and, unique in the world. less set provided they comply win.

The total In making his early experiments length of the aerial wires is about the Customs formalities and pay with a 100 kw. Poulsen arc trans-1,800 metres.-S.F.P. what may be due by law in the way mitter. Dr. de Groot first conceived of duty. Ownership is thus estab- the idea of using a provisional lished, the authorities know, where aérial hung on an air balloon in the wireless material is located, and order to get a great effective height In whose hands. But wireless in- but he later changed his mind and stallations are still on Bufferance used the natural points of support and there is no legal sanc-afforded by the mountain ridges. tion for their erection and As the tour of Inspection pro- use. Hitherto the authorities, gressed It became more and more pending the Issue of the difficult to realise that only a few new law have allowed installations years ago, comparatively speaking, to be erected without fine or con- the only power supply that was fiscation. This law is now not yet available for experimental work at

London, May 80. Mr. Justice Branson, in the ready, and in the meantime the au- Malabar was a dynamo borrowed King's Bench Division, awarded thorities are installing a device from the Batavia Electric. Tram-judgment for £10,869 in an action which will render nugatory the way Company, driven by an aero-against Dr. George Edward Spero, efforts of those who listen In to plane engine which was lent for the ex-M.P. (Labour), for. West private and official messages. This purpose by the Military Aeronauti-Fulham, who, it was device is costly and, beyond, It iscal Service.

stated, had In March 1918, with gone to America.. said, the purse of an ordinary wire-the borrowed dynamo and aeroplane Counsel for the lesa fan-Singapore Free Press.

plaintiffs, engine and a temporary aerial Truphonic, Ltd. Syndicate, in which he held a majority of the shares, and the Syndicate re-sold the bust- ness to the plaintifs.

TEAMS WITH TEAMS.

to two beam aerials,

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EX-M.P. CHARGED.

DR. SPERO ORDERED TO PAY £10,369.

The agreement to sell to the plaintiffs; (to which Dr. Spero was a party) included debts owing to the Syndicate, namely, £6,369.

The balance, £4,000 claimed by the plaintiffs, related to a dishonour, ed chaque for £4,000 given by Dr. Spero.

Counsel declared that the affidavit sworn by Dr. Spero counter-claim- ing £20,000 was entirely fetitions Fand Dr. Spero thereby obtained six months' time, in which he 'created'a bill of sale on his furniture and left. for America.

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