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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932.

RADIO IN 1965.

WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE

THEN?

From the thousands of wireless enthusiasts who flocked to Olympia for the National Radio Exhibition how many remember the beginnings of wireless and who will have suff. cient imagination to look ahead.?

Int

RADIO

FEATURES

THE MAN WITH 14

VOICES.

Nothing över goes wrong, and middle-aged business man, and drama, he also manages himself to nothing is over likely to do so

others into the bargain."

write radio plays and sketches, Now, if I were a variety artiste by "I one played the King and yes, and oven, full-length dramas profession. I might be able to re- Polonius during a broadens of Hence his remarks on this aspect of Itail dozens of stories.

Hamlet to schhools. This would broadonating are equally not with be impossible, on the legitimate out interest; "- stage, of course, and I almost made it impossible on the wireless by very nearly making the King speak to

"They all seem to have stocks of them. But the lot of the radio ip hard. Ha rehearses his part, broadcasts it, and that is all there is to it All my amusing experi- ences happened years ago. Then, I

perior," explained one of thom. Fantastic enough But just im aging reading this in the Newe Chronicle of years to come

"A largò aren; of London was plunged into darkness and brought SEVEN YEARS WITH BBC

a standstill last night owing to the collapse of an perial at the Batterson Radiopower Centra. Buses and taxis, private cars and other vehicles stopped, and only police cars, ambulances and others personalities heard over the wire. must admit, thare were not a few. with emergency equipment using the leas, and certainly the most extra- proceed. Strest lamps, houses and drama. shops were in darkness for more

I have just had a real honest to-goodness. ninety minutes onover- sation with a man, who is probably one of the most extraordinary

?

It was only in 1508 that Marconi old-fashioned battery were able to ordinary in the Beld of radio!

began his first experiments.

That

was & trifle less than 30 years ago,

Marconi, during his 35 years of

"

Polonius in the voice of Polonius, and vige verra.

FAMOUS WIRELESS PATENT EXTENSION REFUSED.

On December 8, Mr. Justice Lux- moore refused an application made in the High Court by the British Thomson Houston Co., Ltd. for an extension of the well-known Eliminator " patent, which bas for many years controlled the use of wirolesa sota driven from the mains, and which therefore expired

"I think it is likely that the future trend of radio drama will be in the direction of grontor si plicity and the reduction of the number of voices to a more manage “But all these things happened fable size," he told me. "I don't in the past. Everything nowadays think there is the same scope for, on the 22nd of last month. All that for Mothing

is out and dried-the. wheels are pageantry aa there. is in the Alm,. We were once putting over a poiled. There's only one thing to for instance, though many large

which was being relayed by land- | Blattnerphone, the device now used | ful. line solely to Newcastic. Having at Savoy Hill to record' any broad-

The life of any patent is normally limited to 16 years, after which it

than an hour. To add to people, He has fourteen different voices Play in the studios a Savoy Hill make you laugh, and that is the scale plays have been very success becomes public property, although

1

at his command, has appourad in

radio, has to use Shakespeare's discomfort, all wireless and telov over two hundred wireless plays, I plugged away, at the dialogue for st of special interest on ind

pas a girdle round the sion instruments, deriving energy and yet has never starred in onath" time after time in 1-7th of by radio, pero also affected. a second-n the incredible speed of light 1.

The broadcast receiving

to be which were

Rats

at

Olympia, have developed during a mero 33 years, 'Yet another 35 years and what will our sets be like t What will Olympia, show us

-1908 1

Tune Your Televisor. ""

in

14

broadcast production, although he At many cinemas the televised may have taken eight or nine dif- films continued to be shown, but forent parts in one. He is one of since the Radio Film Company's the workers of the B.B.C-and central transmitter in Wardour how His name is Philip Wasio,

You may or may not have heard street had lost its power, no sound

of him. He is one of those modest accompaniment, was possible.

All this, of course, is really be characters who perform a good deal yold the range of prediction, or of hard work, but at the same time øven mere guess-work, Radio pro-in

the background. It takes gress is so rapid that no one would journalist to bring him out.” be bold enough to forecast what sete

How He Began.

some thirty minutes, we were all getting very hot and excited as the grand climax loomed nearer and carer, when the Announcer walked

in certain circumstances an exten- sion of this term can be granted: Expressionism. In the present instance, the full

Those Highbrow Plays..

"As for tho

stripe which an either be immedi versus Naturalism' controversy, all term of 10 years expired on the ately reproduced or slso preserved I can say is that there can be ab above-mentioned date, but a further for future use."

progress without rxperiment. If period of protection was asked for The great thing about it, every listener cannot understand & on the ground that the patentess though, is that it enables the broad-highbrow play, it is hardly fair were prevented from making full All night, follows, you needn't easter to hear his own voiọn Aof him to put all the blame on the get flustered, he remarked, and first, I confess I didn't recognies B.B.C.-is it "Popular Wireless

mind any of them. Je shook.

into the studio.

put down a switch at the side of the microphone. Now, bagin all over again, if you please? We had been talking for over half an hour to a mike that hadn't been turned on! Why our silence had not been

д

The Blattnerphone Backwards. "It's funny, also, to hear the record played backwards, and

directional current..

use of the invention during the War period, because they were then ongaged in other work of national importance. They applied for a These com prolongation of four years to make bine together to form a direct cur- good the time so lost. The applica rent, this is to say, they flow tion was, however, successfully ap in the same direction, but the ear posed by the Hazeltine Corporation

unvarying. Ripples or irregulari- The 'oliminator patent covers

I began broadcasting round disenvarod earlier, I can't imagine. ¡especially at, say, trable its normal vent -is not perfectly smooth and and Messrs. Brown Boverie & Co.

„I'nghone days, of course, the wire-would be like even in five years, let alone thirty-five, At present, how- Ics fan won't bother to go to Kensington. Seated in the comfort over, the tread of design is towards about 1825," I at last managed to

"Another amusing thing is that speed. The programme that went

of his own home ho will examine aplicity for the user but towards make him, say: "I had been an sometimes I have played with" so down so well with listeners sounds tice are always present which re method of smoothing-out the cur

all the new models with the aid of television. Tune your televisor to Olympia will be the cry of manu- facturers. Perhaps each stand will have its own wavelength-or will there be a central and powerful ex- change at Olympia" with a

from it

network

*

ecmplication of the works."

F

ctor since 1919, and when the many characters. that I have been under these conditions like noth- The day of the amateur seems to BBC moved-in to Savoy Hill, in the gravest danger of getting ing but Chinese gibberish inter he drawing to a close. Only the they duly received aspiring them all mixed up. This evening. mingled with the gouble-gobble skilled technician-an engineeretter from me through the post. for instance, I'm appearing-it of excited turkeya."

modern all-electriu

"They tested me gave me parts that is the right word-in a revno in those very early plays In the that runs for an hour. Mine and Congo Night, and I've been broadcasting" even since.

(can build a

radio-gramophone.

Batteries are fast disappearing- although at the present moment

of low-powered bircuits radiating about five times as many battery. Talking to the microphone 18 the

At all events the "News-Chroni-operated sets are sold as comparea cle Radio Correspondent may with sets worked off the, maina, write something like this:

If you adjust your televisor to Stand 44 at Olympia, where the National Radio Exhibition opens to morrow, you will see a magnificent radio installation designed by the Society of Wireless Constructors to typify the last word in technical

achievemens.

Fantastic Enough But--

"It will give you radio sound and vision tele-cinema: gramo phone and at the same time derive all its power by wireless together with sufficient additional electric ity to light your entire house. The new cold flament valves are incor- porated in this set for the first time. The old glass-batbed valve with a hot wire filament is doomed, according to leading manufactur-

ora.

It is ion fragile, and the cold) filament valve encovert in the new metal,

Real Versatility. During the period, I shall be mast cold-blooded thing in the a Cockney a spotsman, a Lanca- world. After ally what is there to shire lad-basy this, because I come from Lancashire-an old man, ja The "cold" valve cannot be tap worry about? off. Already filamenta, of moder valves show no glow.” A few years ago. they shone as brightly sa an ordinary lamp. If the cold fla meat comes, it will save power and simplify sets. This is why scien tists, particularly in Germany and Holland, ATC working towards low-temperature filaments in the hape of obtaining the ideal of a cold 'nng.

The great snag of long-distance They reemption is atmospherics. give cause for despair. Will they ever be beaten ?

The erash and crack and queer fizzling noises which they make have so far defied all avtempes "to out them out.

The greatest brains of radio seiance are working on the problem, but we seem no nearer a solution,

There is a colossal fortune in store for the man who invents a

porcelanium, is vastly euro for atmospherics?

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HAVE

YOU HEARD. THESE?

Here are Hota of long-waTH | and short-wave stations which should be picked up by anyone in Hong Kong who has a mode- rately good set suitable for re- ceiving such signals. Success in picking up these stations also depends very largely upon tar ourable atmospheric conditions.

· Readers are invited to add to this list should they succeed in picking up any station not in-... cluded in either of these lisis.

LONG-WAVE STATIONS.

Wars length

ONI Kilo- (Metres) Station Sign Cycla

200 Mania K.Z.I.B. 1,189 277 Shanghai K.S.M.S. 1,083 343 Tokyo 3.Q.A.K. 870 353 Hiroshima J.O.F.K. 880

248 356 Hong Kong Z.B.W.

840 357.1 Bombay V.U.B.

J.O.LK, 630 J.O.D.K. 820- J.0.0.K, 810 V.U.O. 809.0 390 Kumamoto J.0.G.K. 790 J.O.HE. 770 J.Q.A.K. -700 J.O.B.K. 750 C.M.B. 788 K.Z.R.M. 023

331 Sapporn

388 Kaijo

370 Nagoya 370.4 Caloutta

390 Sendai 395 Dairen. 400 Ouska 410 Canton 480 Manila

SHORT-WAVE STATIONS.

STATION

CALL Stow

8785 Dobintz (Germany)

:

TINE (HONG KONG) OF WORKING

4,484 | Mon, Wed, & Fri, 0 p.in, & ? vum 4,000:6-10 p.m. '

A.F.I..

60.7 50.

60.12 Khabarovsk (Russia)

Naushw Mosco

B.A.7.

A.G.J.

8,291 Not regular

R.S.N.

6,000 Tuek, Thurs., Sat....,8 p.m.'

43.1 Rome'

1.MA.

6,890 Sunday midnight

42.

Perth

B.A.G.

$1.

Singapore

V.B.I.A.B.

89.8

| Kootwijk (Holland)

P.O.L

07.

Bangkok (Slum)

85.2

Bydney

2.B.L

81.55 Melbourne

3.1.0.

31.48 Bobansotady.

7,149 ‚Dally 6.80 p.m. & 11 p.m..

1,810 Net regular

7.730 Daily 1 pm

HJAPJ. 8,108 Tues, & Fri., 9 pm-1a.m.

9.280 Not regular

9,508 Not-regular

W.3.X.A.F: 9,680 Daily 7 a

8:30 Bludhoven (Holland) | P.C.

31.08 | Sydney

Nairobi {{Konza)

0,620 Fr. 3. Sat. 9 am, & 10 x.m,

2.8.09;600Not rognlar

Bundoong

P.L B 26.68 Chelmsford (England) 6.8.W.

9,077 Midnight daily

10,826 f Not regulas "

11,020 Midnight. daily

11,751 7,80 p.6. & & a.m. dally, except

Saturday and Sunday

38.6 $7,8

Bydney

7.L.0,

2.M..

K.LXE.

12,240 Nightly

W.2.X.0.

18,850 44.10. Wed., Fri., Bat.

P.L.G.

24.5 Manila:

28.86 Schenectady.

18.89 Bandoeng

16.4

17,4

Kootwijk (Holland) Bandoang

P.C.L

PLE.

$16.0 Bangkok

H.S.1.P

16,2

Kootwijk (Holland)

P.O:K

18.74 Bandoung

P.L E.

38.8

Nangy (France)

23.08 Pittsburg

W.8.KK.

TEL: 22187

16,102 Dally 0.10 p.m. to midnight

16,804 Daily 7 p.m.

17.280 Dally 8pm to midnight

17,767 Bundays 7 pm & midnight.

18,404 Each afternoon.

19,220 Daily 5.80-7.p.122.

IUEBL] Didy Ba

21.640 Not regular

So much for the lighter side of Philip Wade and his work. Not content with acting on the legit mate stage, and perpetually re- hearsing and broadcasting in radio

i

flect the frequency of the original rent delivered by a rectifying de-

supply.

vice, so that it can be applied In future. A simple máothing circuit of the kind will not be directly to a valve uplifier, with liable to any patent royalty, whe out giving rise to hum.. ther used for energiaing a vireless

alternating current reciver or an electric gramophone, It does not, however, follow that passes, through a rectifying device the same: freedom attaches to later the output is really made up of a improvements or modifications of series of intermittent pulses of uni- this standard sirenit.

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