1931-02-24 — Page 11

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1931,

RADIO TOPICS

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

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The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 855

metron:-

SHORT WAVE.

Reception Reviewed la Singapore.

Singapore, Fab. 7.

CURRENT FROM MAINS.

5-8 p.m.-European Programme VSIAB has tried a new wave of Columbia Records kindly sup-length, with, I understand, success-rent, by using a mains unit instead plied by Messrs. Anderson-Music ful results. It was announced on

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THE CHINA MAIL.

For example, B unit rated of the Imperial Government, and

100

volts for * 30-ml- as Northern Rhodesia is now in liamperes load night give 180 touch with the whole country up to volto maximum if the load the Great Lakes, the uneasiness of were only 10 milliamperes. Caro the white settlers in Kenya has had is therefore necessary in buying a] its reactions also, unit to suit the current require-

With A. C. mains, the elimina tion of the low-tension accumula- ter is just as easy as the elimina tion of the high tension battery, Two good alternatives are avall able. One can retain the accumu- ator and charge it from what is known as a trickle charger, costing about £2. By this means the accu- mulator can be kept in a fully charged condition. The average three-or four-valve set about 5 ampere Alament current. takes The average trickle charger has a charging rate of 5 ampere.

In any attempt to bring the radioments of the set. installation up to date one must in- evitably consider changing over from battery to mains operation. With either A.C. or D.C. mains it is easy to obtain high-tension cur- of the high-tension battery. Sunday night-when VS1AB was A suitable unit for a three-valve testing as usual on 42 metres--that set deriving Its high-tension cur on the following Wednesday the rent from D.C. maine costs about station would carry out its tests on

A similar unit for A.C. mains 21 metres. Further, it was stated would cost just ever £3. When one that probably the strength would remembers that these units, once not be as good on the lower wave-installed, provide a constant cur- length, locally, as on 42 metres. rent and obviate the necessity for Stanley Holloway & Claude Sunday night's programme of Hulbert with His Majesty's gramophone records came over very recommendation is needed,

costly battery renewal, no further Theatre Orchestra (9542).well; particularly the organ sonata by Elgar which was repeated later Irene Bordoni, Comedienno in the evening. On Sunday (to

(5730).

morrow night) VS1AB will be back Piccolo Duel-

on the air on 42 metres. The Language of the Nightingale

(Gennin),

5:5.47 p.m. Variety. Orchestral-

Song of the Sea-Song of the Sea,

Stanley Holloway & Chorus with His Majesty's Theatre Orchestra [9542). Orchestral

Song of the Sea-Lovely Ladies,

Song-

Believe Me,

The Jolly Whistlers (Gennin),

The Perth (West Australia) sta- tion, 6 AG was busy in telephonic Jean & Pierre Gennis (178).conversations with Bandoeng on

Sunday night. "Chu-Chin-Chow"-Vocal Gems,

Chorus-

Sung

Columbia Voen) Gem 'Co. (659).

The Cobbler's Song

(from Chu Chin Chow),

Jamieson Dodds, Baritone (069).

The Java stations have been quite good during the past week, and especially enjoyable was the concert from Sourabaya on Tues day evening last. It is interesting to note that PK 3 AN, Soumbaya, on 49.7 metres is being heard' well in England. Has anybody been Ruth Etting (217). able to locate the short-wave sta- Exactly Like You,

tion at Kankuku, Hawaii on 65 On the Sunny Side of the Street,

metres? The question is put by a Layton & Johnstone (254). correspondent who does not, state whether he has done so himself. The writer hans not had the luck as yet.

Humorous Sing-

More Than You Know,

Duet

Band-

No Place But Home

(from Ever Green), Dancing on the Geiling.

(from Ever Green),

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(172),

Van Phillips and His Bond 5.47-6.30 p.m.-Concert Items. Duet-

Moon-Enchanted

(Dowden & Besley), Love's Out Sweet Song, (Bingham & Molloy),

Dora Labbette and Hubert Eisdell with Squire's Celeste Oetet (9895).

Violin Solo-

Air (Goldmark),

Sicilienne & Rigaudon

Seng-

(Francoeur-Kreisler),

Simon the Cellarer

(Bellamy & Hatton),

Octet-

Chant Sans Paroles (Tschaikowsky),

The mains supply enables one to use a large power valve and so to obtain better quality of reproduc- tion than is possible with a small power valve.

This

An Alternative System. The alternative to retaining the accumulator and charging it is to dispense with the accumulator by using valves whose flaments are heated by mains current. can be done only with A.C. mains Apart from the cost, there are supplics. The supply voltage is some important points to be con- transformed down to 4 volts and sidered before scrapping the bat-nt this voltage the present-day tery supply. The existing set may mains valve is designed to operate not be entirely suitable for mains taking 1 ampere current. Due to operation. For example, all the the robust Alament, the mains anodes may be joined together to valve is much more efficient than શ common positive, high-tension the battery valve. For this reason feed. Where the maximum vltage the completely mains-driven set is of the high-tension battery is, say grently superior in performance to 108 volts, this cemmoning of the battery set, aven if the battery set supplies is often done. unit is capable of giving much sion supply.-Amateur Wireless.

The maina has a mains unit for the high-ten-

higher voltages than the ordinary needs the maximum. So, before dry battery but only the last vaive

(changing over from battery' to mains for the high-tension supply. it is advisable to separate' the anode

vantage of the mains can be derly- In this way the full ad.

ed, by applying the maximum volt. age delivered by the unit to the last valve, without over-running the preceding valves.

On Thursday night the new Vatl-feeds. can station was heard testing The station came on with great strength and without any difficulty was switched on to the loud speak The announcer was talking in English and called up a number of stations in Engand, America and elsewhere.

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RHODESIAN UNION.

STRONGLY BRITISH COMMUNITY.

Payments to South Africa. There is undoubtedly A wide- opread impatience with the some. what pedantic methods of a Colonial Office, which produces White Papers that are excellent in theory, but which seems incapable of be lieving that this community of high-bred, educated British settlora wish just as well towards the native as does any philanthropist who has ever seen Africa.

Another and more acute foeling

towarda union; that is their senti, of distrust is urging Rhodesians ment towards their powerful south- ern neighbours. They distrust and dislike the whole trend of policy! during recent years in the Union of; South Africa.

Rhodesia is strongly--sometimes almost defiantly-British. There is no constant racial bickering, no bilingualism, no well-founded ac cusations of "jobs for pals" in that great Northern land.

Rhodesia feels that she is con- tributing heavily to the revenues of the Union in import duties and rail- way freights, and is getting nothing in return. Her feelings are all turning to the North, East, and West-anywhere but the South- London Morning Post Corrospen- dent.

SIR WILLIAM BULL.

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At the conciusion of a humorous

Only a few years ago the pro-after-dinner speech at Frome, i spects of union between Southern Somerset, the Rt. Hon. Sir William Khodesia seemed Bull; the leading, protagonist of the Channel tunnel scheme, collapsed and died.

Output Arrangements. Very few battery-operated sets and Northern include an output transformer or very remote. Saigon has led the way again choke filter circuit between the

Southern Rhodesia, the beloved and, I venture to state, will con-power valve and the loud-speaker, child of Rhodes's dreams, had been

Sir William, who was 67 years tinue to do so for some time. The Usually the anode current of the fostered through its infancy by the

of age, had had a long and dis- He was senior programmes, whether gramophone power valve is quite small and does old Chartered Company, and had tinguished career. Arthur Catterall (9010), records or otherwise have been not greatly harm the loud-speaker obtained self-government; the land partner in the firm of Bull and Bull. good. The news items in English winding. With mains power it is was prosperous and contented, and solicitors, and a director of many have been a special feature of the strongly recommended that the needed no help from outside. , companies. He became Conserva- week's programmes. Roll On, Thou Deep and Dark Blue night we heard all about the earth-anode current.

The other loud- speaker be isolated from the

Northern Rhodesia was poor and tive M. P. for Hammersmith in Ocean (Dule & Petrie),

By means of an still in the early stages when the 1900, for Hammersmith (South) Norman Allin, Boss (3807).quake in New Zealand and about

from 1918 to 1929, and chairman of or a choke prospector and the pioneer were al output transformer Captain Malcolm Campbell's at- capacity filter the anode current of most the only men who stoutly, the London Unionist M.P.a from tempt on the world speed record.

the power valve is provented from maintained that her future would 1910 to 1929. Other stations that have been re-flowing through the loudspeaker be great. Invitation to the Valse (Weber),

J. H. Squire Celeste Ortetceived locally are: CJRX (Winni-winding.

Only the low-frequency Hints then at the desirability peg, Canada) on about 23 metres, signal currents pass through the of Union all came from the North. 2ME (Sydney, Australia), PCJ (Eindhoven, Holland) WGXN (Oak-

loud-speaker.

But conditions changed in the Before using a mains unit inewildering таплег of South California) and Nairobistead of a high-tension battery one Africa. The discovery and develop (Kenya Colony).-Singapore Free

ehould see tuat the high-tension ment of the great copper-fields of Presa.

negative lead is connected to low- the North have turned the eyes of tension negative and not to low- all thodesians northwards, and now tension positive. In some old-it la Northern Rhodesia who fashioned sets the high-tension accuses the Southern State of court- negative was taken to low-tension ing her when she is wealthy, after positive, but in modern practice it spurning her in her days of poverty. is always taken negative.

Song

(9608).

Until (Teschemacher & Sanderson). For You Alone (O'Reilly & Grehl),

land, Aroldo Lindi, Tenor (179). 6.30-7.20 p.m.--Orchestral.

7 p.m. Stock Quotations.

Hydropalen (Gungi),

New Concert Orchestra (9398).

The Bronze Horao-Overture (Auber),

The Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra (49).

Capriccio Espagnole

(Rimsky & Korsakov),

I

The Halle Orchestra (9716-7),

Orchestra (9505).

Echoes of the Valley (Gennin), The Merry Brothers (Gennin),"

The Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra (0821)

7.20-8 p.m. Operatic. Cavalleria Rusticana-Intermezzo

(Mascugni).

RECEIVING SETS.

By the end of 1931 there will be very few crystal acts in existence, for the need for selectivity imposed by high-power transmissions will drive them out of the field. Valve

to low-tension i

age does not vary with current load. That is to say, 120-volta will be obtained when the total anode current is 8 milliamperes, just as 120 volts will be obtained if the current is increased to 12 milliam- perea. But with a mains unit the maximum voltage varies as the cur- rent load la varied.

Recently the prospects of Union have come much closer, and are now discussed as one of the pro- blems of the day.

The main reason which has push-

steady increase of the white popu lation,

which is predominantly British.

For two years there has been a steady drift of British colonists from the Union into Southern and Northern Rhodesia.

The Two Imps (Alford),

An unsuspected action of mains Cancer of Seville (Grunow),

sets will tend to fall into two wide-unita should be noted by those used The Bournemouth Municipally different classes. There wil. be, to battery operation. With, say, a

first of all, the highly efficient and 120-volt battery the maximum volt-ed this question to the front is the super-selective set containing from five to seven valves, but costing little, if any more, than the present three-of four-valvers. The three valver will not retain its popular- ity. since, generally speaking, its golectivity will not be found sufil- cient. Those who do not go in for larger sets will most likely Install highly efficient two-valve sets which will do all that is required in the way of bringing in local and Na- tional programme.-Amateur Wire- less.

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Milan Symphony Orchestra (9664).

Lucia Di Lammermoor→→

Sparce Un Amaro Pianto

(Donizetti), Alan Son Tus (Donizetti),

Maria Gentile, Soprano (1971).

O Vision Entrancing

(Marzials & Thomas), Carmen--Flower Song (Blzet),

Arthur Jordan, Tenór (0204). Aida--Grand March (Verdi),

Milan Symphony Orchestra (0604). Carmen--The Toreador Song (Blaet),. Tannhauser-0 Star of Eve

(Wagner),

Harold Williams and the B.B.C. Chorus (9873). 8-11.30 p.m.-Ko Shing Theatre Relay.

9 p.m.-Weather Report, Local Time, etc.

11.30 p.m.-Close Down.

THE OLD DAYS.

$.0.5. CALLS.

Betwen 850 and 900'S.0.8. calls, including police messages are broadcast by the B.B.C. annually. It may be interesting to note that of messages calling relatives to the bedside of persons soriously ill, just over half are successful. Of mes- sages radiated at the request of the police for witnesses of accidents, just under half are succesful On the other hand only a fifth of the calls broadcast with the object of | tracing missing persons attain their object. Of every five S.0.3. mes-

Having now left 1930 behind, sages submitted to the B.B.C. for Baya W.L.S. in Popular Wireless, broadcasting only one reaches the perhaps I may be permitted to sug- microphone-Amateur Wireless. gest to 1931 that it behaves itself a

little better for our purposes than in the future, one thing seems to did its predecessor, For all the be certain, judging from findings. "dud" years I can ever remember, during the past few years, the from the point of view of short worse the conditions below 40 wave radio, 1930 heads the list. metres become, the better will they. May we never have another like It. be higher.up.. In other words, By the end of the year we shall be when the wave-lengths round about

in a position to see whether there 10 metres, 20 and 40 metres are fe anything in the theory of the behaving very poorly, 80 and 160 "eleven-year-cycle" for if there is, metres and probably the broadcast It will be even poorer than 1930. waves as well, will be abnormally Nineteen thirty-two will be about good.

the same as 1991 after which we of course, W. L B. was writing may hope for an improvement back of conditions as experienced in to the 1980 standard. A cheerful Britain. But it all puts mo fu outlook, indeed, and one, I hope, mind of what a reader told me re- which we shall not need to face. cently, that in the old days--1926- Personally, I am not a believer in 27-with components and valves the "eleven-year-cycle" business al- which were far below the standard though it is an undeniable fact that of articles procurable at the pre- since 1926, short wave conditions sent time, he used to get Chelms have gone very considerably down- ford every night for months. Either hill. I am rather inclined, though, the conditions, or else Chelmsford to attribute this to freakish group- itself, must have been much better ings of the areas of high barome in those days than they are now. Ario pressure and to generally curi»l Faimonally, 1 have given up fooking ous conditions. Whatever happens, for Chelmsford,

One reason for this migration, in undoubtedly distrust of the policy

Sir William was connected with many societies and institutions and was a member of the Rubber and He was a Tin Export Committee. prolific writer and his trenchant] articles were published in many newspapers.

He is succeeded by his son Stephen, who is 20 years of age.

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