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of records and spare parts. ·

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WONG SIU WOON

21. Pottinger St.

I should like to mention Saigon

The super-heterodyne rolates and Manila, our two best stations, the latter especially as the pro-the amplification of short Some Technical Details, International conventions only re-grammes which go on all day are signals at high frequency, which is

The super quire a ship's wireless installation sponsored, and therefore the most a very difficult matter. to be able to transmit on a wave-versatile and interesting station "on heterodyne is an ingenious method The short length of 600 metres, thus ensuring the air" as far as we are concerned, of solving the problem. a common wave-length for distress This is a medium wave station, 500 wave signals are heterodyned by

Radio local oscillations of very nearly the Brea calis, but the telegraphic traffic to metres, call sign KVRM

It is a long time to wait same frequency, so that the beats Canton Fresh Water: and from a large passenger ship is Manila. so great that provision is made for for the new Daventry station, and which result are still at radio fre-

Carp Iseveral other wave-lengths to be we get rather tired of hearing quency, corresponding, usually, to used for the rapid clearance of tele- Dutch, French, Russian, American, a wavelength of about 3,000 metres. and other foreign languages. Cannot These beats are then regarded as To facilitate this speedy operation we get a little stronger transmission signals of 3,000 metre wavelength. Cattle Fish

тоге frequent in the Empress of Britain one tele- and

programmes and can be amplified. with a simple

Dab amplider and] resistance-capacity be sharply from Chelmsford? graph transmitter can Luned to transmit on wave-lengths I am sure all overseas listeners in heterodyned fresh to produce audible Dog Flai Best styles, most complete stock of all sizes. Repairing a speciality.of 500, 650, 705, 750, or 800 metres, Malaya, if not elsewhere, will ap beats.

und on any wave-length between preciate more English. Phone 21474.1887 and 2703 metres, and the other

TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1932.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

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DENTISTS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

RADIO TOPICS.

EMPRESS OF BRITAIN'S EQUIPMENT.

Calling The World.

The new big wireless station of

WHITE HUNTERS' ADVENTURE.

the League of Nations is to receive How a wireless sat saved two the appropriate name Radio white men from being held prison- Roading of the elaborate wireless

Nations. It is not, of course, aers by cannibals is reported. equipment on the liner Empress of broadcasting station; its purpose is A middle-aged Liverpool business Britain, which called here recent to keep the League in direct touch man, Mr. A. J. ("Pop") Antoine, and соглегв or with friend, were hunting elephants in ly, one is rather curious to know with far-away

Mr. now all this equipment is packed special missions sent out to investi- French Equatorial Africa.

gato particular, matters. It is to be Antoine always carries a portable Although it was not parti- ja short-wave beam station and the wireless set on his expeditions.

When about 150 miles inside cularly noticeable to those looking output rating is 20 kilowatts. Two easually over the ship, the provision transmitters are being erected; the French territory the hunters lost first a Marconi 20-kilowatt short- their way. After wandering through of the elaborate wireless Installation

second installation, the

a miles of unknown country, naturally calls for extensive accom-crystal-ontrolled aparatuc manu came upon a tribe of cannibals.

The tribesmen gave them be utilised factured by the French T.S.F. peo-| modation so that it can

The wavelengths used will be hostile reception, wounded one with in the most efficient manner.

Fourple large rooms are devoted exclusively mainly between 15 and 40 metres, a spear and took them both pri-

though the Marconi transmitter can soners. the wireless equipment. The

be tuned a good deal higher if neces-! long and short wave telegraph in-sary.

Chelmsford Again. LAU PAK-WAL, DENTIST, has. re-stallations and the broadcast moved his Hong Kong Officeceiver are contained in GLOUCESTER BLDG., 1st floor, Pod. der St. (New Building next to Hong cabin, Kong Hotel). Telephone No. 20488.

HARRY FONG, Dentist,

ist door, No. 74, Queen's Road

Central. Tel. 21255.

to

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the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street. TERMS VERY MODERATE

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Calvar' Head & Foot measuring 14 feet is from a resident of North Borneo The wondering natives gathered Mutton Chop

Next evening they asked round. feet. situated just and speaks for itself:---

Sir-With regard to Empire for more magic music Two other aft of the bridge.

Every evening for many days, the cabins on the top deck are devoted broadcasting, we too would like to

the able to listen to a home pro-two white men staged their wire to the telephone apparatus. The

xramme, being English ourselves, less concert, and every evening the receiving cabin, 12 feet by 10 feet, but unfortunately Chelmsford 18 natives grew less hostile. Then between the second and the third

tuo weak for us to listen to and en-the batteries of the set began to run, tunnels, and the transmitting cabin,

We should get the luncheon down and the white men, decided 22 feet by 18 feet, between the

hour programme here at 8.30 p.m. that it was time to escape. second and the third funnels. An

but we can only get the carrier wave three weeks' imprisonment," they got elaborate aerial system is neces-

away with only a compass and their and very faint distorted music. sary for the various installations

At 9 p.m. sharp, coming down the rifles. and this is suitably arranged be.

dial we hear Paris Radio Coloniale The natives pursued them, but tween the masts and also from the

Khabarovsk the two white men obliterated their likewise perfectly, fore and mainmast henda A

(Siberial, and Kootwijk (Holland), tracks by walking several miles special band room near the first

We hear through a river, Finally they ar- sheep's Head & Fach- class dining saloon, contains the but no English station!

a Belgian Congo border several Australian stations, with the rived at gramophone turntables, control ap-Sydney-London telephony particuar station- exhausted, but sufe. paratus and generators necessary for Band Repeater equipment and strong the Sydney end, but not a accommodation for a good selection sign of London at the other end!

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D.T. (British North Borneo)

to transmit on wave-length of 17.8 Midland Regional is to find a new) and 36.8 metres. The principal ob- site. Since the decision to erect ject in arranging for transmissions the Empire short-wave station at become evident on more than one wave-length is Daventry, it has that it enubles several ship stations that there is insufficient

accom-

Mr. H. B. Lees-Smith, Minister of Halibur to operate simultaneously without modation there for three broadcast Education in the late Labour Labrus mutual interference and without de- transmitters.

Cabinet, who has returned to Lon Loch The search for a site has already don from a visit to America, was Lobsters laying wireless traffic. The long-

As it begun, and I understand that the asked what was his experience of Mackerel wave transmitter, combining does sharp tuning with a wide opportunity will be taken to bring Prohibition.

Monk Fiab range of wave-lengths, can take ad- the Midland transmitter very much

"Well," he said, "I happen to be a Mulles vantage of these facilities to com-nearer to its studio in Birmingham, tectotaller, but the one place in the Oysters municate with distant stations which is at present nearly sixty world where I found it most difficult Parros Fish without hindering the work on other miles away.-W.W.

to maintain my teetotal habits was Perch

Liquor was so gen Pike In New York. erously pressed upon me from every Plaice

ships or land stations which are close Shorter Programmes in Germany? at hand. It is possible, for example, Ruthless retrenchment iЯ the

to work from Southampton Water order of the day with the German direction that I had continually to Pomfret, White with station in the United States broadcasting authorities, and the apologise that I did not take.

Pomfret, Black

and Canada without any interfer- latest move is the decision to put "At one dinner at which I was Prawns ence to the British land stations or into service the new auditorium at entertained the meal began with Ray any other ships which may be in the the Berlin Radio House without cocktails and ended with other Rock Fish vicinity.

adopting the elaborate acoustic de-varieties of liquor which I do not Bosch

A wireless receiver for ship use vices which had been planned by know, In England.I usually find Salmon must necessarily be capable of re- the enginers.

at a dinner that I have two or three Shark Other proposed economy measures companions in my teetotalism, but kate ception from a large number of sta

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amplification of weak signals; is Europa's first "publicity broad-that there is probably less consum- Turtles, small fr, water capable of receiving any type of casting station" is nearing com-ed among the poorer classes than signal, whether it be spark, inter-pletion at Luxembourg. We under-before Prohibition, but more and they have is now, according to their, that the rupted continuous waves, continu-stand that the initial tests may be more is drunk the higher you go in own statistics, greater than ours, which they so much despised in this Lastrons Oil Permanent Hair Wares ous waves, or wireless telephony, and expected on or about April 15 next. the economic scale, pas d

and they are far more pessimistic country, shall be introduced into the help noticing that those who are in which are Large, Soft and Natural, the tuning arrangements must be Considering that the power will be "I found in talling to business about the future than we have been United States. This is still a mat-employment in America have a far- Artistle Finger und Marcel Waves, Oll Treatment, Shampooing, Henan Pack extremely critical, so that the de- in the neighbourhod of 200 dlo- men and all types of people in the even In our blackest moments, ter of great controversy, but if their higher standard of life than we in (any colour), Hair Cutting and Maul-sired signals may be laointed from watts, the "publicity" should be United States that they are very "They have no system of relief, depression lasts for a period in any England, and the life of the Amer cura for Ladies and Gentlemen. Con- all other signals likely to cause fairly extensive. scientious, Artistle Work by European interference.

The wavelength much more depressed than we are. but it is clear that an increasing way comparable to ours they will can artisan, is comparable to thats The Marconi Re- will be 217.4 metres.

The amount of unemployment that volume of opinion is now demanding probably have recourse to our ays of the small professional man here." Expert, Mr. Alexander.

ceiver on the Empress of Britain covers in one instrument the wave- length range of from 15 metres to 20,000 metres, and it is an easy matter by turning a switch to' change rapidly, from one WBYC- length to another. For example, the reception of time signal from Rugby on 18,750 metras can im-) mediately be followed by the re- ception of ice reports and navigation warnings broadcast on 600 metres, and other wave changes of a similar nature can quickly be made as the service requirements demand, **The short-wave transmitter has a separate three-valve receiver in one unit, covering only the short wave-lengths of from? 14 to 100 the

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