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RACE FOR RADIO SUPREMACY

Jam"

In The

The Ether

Biggest Traffic Planning Of Mighty SHE MADE New Wireless Net AN ISLAND

For Propaganda

AIR-MINDED

The tiny, wind-swept Alderney, with less than

Nations of the world are engaged in a new race inhabitants, has the only

for supremacy—this time, over the ether. Govern-world, Miss Wins Le Cocq-

port manager and controller in

ments are already mobilising their radio reserves. Wilna is a petite, blonde blue- Great new broadcasting transmitters are being eyed girl of twenty-two She erected.

working to save money to learn to fly and become a commercial pilot. Single-handed, Le Cocq con- On this little

Not only for propaganda, but for the actual purposes of warfare is the great new wireless net-trols the only work being created.

three-miles-by long island

IN BRITAIN

port Ban

ontracts already entered into, and this plains why a cer- tain amount of scrap continued to Under her control come the ex-be exported after Fel In a future war, it will be in the ready before the end of the year perienced pilots of Jersey. Airways, interest of one country to "Sam" and Japan with a nearly complet-ho now operate a daily service the radio of another, thus prevented twin transmitter at Tokyo, with from St. Helier to Alderney. ing the broadcasting of gas attack a power of 150 kilowatts. The warnings, and any other informa-Chinese station is replacing an old tion likely to be of service to the one - kilowatt output.

military and air chiefs.

An official of the British Iron and Steel Federation said "I under- As the plane in which I travelled stand that practically no scrap is to interview Miss Le Cocq, slowly leaving the country now which is drifted down to the airfield, I saw not within the four corners of the

civilian population, or to the naval, Plans are also being made for her waiting near her office, a tiny ag

the extension of our own Empirewooden hut (writes a correspond That this can be done has already stations in Australia, New Zealand been proved by experiments with and India, where it is expected Besides organising the booking

ent).

directional aerials although it is that new transmitters will be in- at present doubtful if a complete ställed of at least 100 kilowatts "Sam" could be accomplished power. against the new type of high-pow er transmitter.

Hide And Seek

In this case, the only effective means of silencing an enemy's ra- dio would be to erect a transmitter of similar power and operate it on the same wave length.

in of passengers, and handling office Freeth, still in her early twenties, routine, this young girl acts. as will soon begin her medical career chauffeur to air passengers, driv-lat a London hospital as Dr. Audrey - ing them to the only hotel on the Freeth, MB, BS.

Italy's plans include an in- crease of power of two existingsland.

transmitters from 25 to 40 kilo- watts, and the erection of two * new

100-kilowatt transmitters, with a reserve installation of 50-|| kilowatts.

at

With a certainty when all these new transmitters are in action. From this one can visualise a species of radio "hide and seek" there will be a repetition of the played between t two warring suggestion that in peace time, transmitters, chasing each other any rate, broadcasting causes bad up and down the wave bands. One hundred kilowatts is regarded as a not unusual, powerį output of a broadcasting transmit-

∙HOW,

weather, forest fires, failure crops, and even earthquakes..

No Effect On Weather That wireless transmission

ter, where, previously, one kilo-should really affect the weather watt was considered sufficient.

or any other major event is re But even more powerful stations garded as practically impossible by are being built, and some nations experts who have, delved deeply

into the subjects.

have already decided to replace small

stations by 200-kilowatt transmitters, in their endeavours to be the leading "ether powers" of the world.

BBC's Move-

They assure us that all the elec tricity committed to the atmosphere

or likely to be by means of broadcasting, can have no more effect than a raindrop in the Aflan- tic Ocean

Sir Arthur Willert, former high The only sty esult of pend- official at the British Foreign Of-ing developments can be the con- fice, has suggested that the B.B.C. gestion of the atmosphere by too should consider the anti-British many high-powered transmissions. propaganda already sent out on. And if, to offset this, B.B.C. ex- foreign transmitters with a view periments prove successful, the to retaliation by means of high-wireless war must inevitably begin power broadcasting.

all over again.

Well, here is what is happening to-day.

SOVIETS TO HAVE

WORLD'S LONGEST

Czechoslovakia plans to build a super-station, which, if necessary, can deal with a 200 kilowatt out- TELEPHONE LINE

put

Hungary, at present holding the Sovie

record for the highest aer-

Budapest is chal

aged by Czechoslovakia, which

blice

this record at Lio

feet high

to house short wave Daventry, and to

aerial in con ecently invent-

supported

the present, the

Canada, fre

Another difficult task she has perform is to encourage eld wealthy farmers who left the island, to be passengers,

flying

"I love doing this work, she told me, but

szabition is to learn

to fly myself. Aeroplanes seem have got into my blood.

Doctor in Her Twenties Slim, dark-haired girl,

At the London Royal Free Hos- pital School of Medicine for Women the received the congratulations of her llow students, and of the

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China and

are joining the radio race. China with a 50 kilow tter at Canton, which