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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1932,

THE NEW SCOTTISH REGIONAL.

RADIO

BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S LATEST

"BABY."

VAST IMPROVEMENT ON ALL OTHER

BRITISH STATIONS

familiar tall windows of the London The new Scottish Regional Sta-station transmitter hall are miss- tion, when it gets into its fulling. The room is lighted from a swing, will revolutionise wireless dome in the roof, and the engineer reception in Scotland, and so I in charge said that this reduced accepted the B.B.C. invitation to dazzle and eye strain, visit the Westerglen transmitter with того than usual intercat. Also, as this is the third 00-kilo- watter in the B.B.C. Regional jected to stringent tests. At each Scheme chain I was anxious to control desk there are the main make comparisons between Brook-meters showing the water flow, mans Park, North Regional and 'main. H.T. voltages, drive and Westergien.

B.B.C. engineers spent many months in the district trying out possible radiation centres, with the travelling van transmitter, and they have certainly chosen a good site at Westerglen. The new station is on very high ground overlooking the busy town of Falkirk. There ure certainly more houses in the immediato nighbourhood than there

Ample Checking Equipment.

FEATURES

The big water-cooled valves want

12,000 volts H.T.! That has been

a problem, because while it is easy

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ORCHESTRAL DISCORD.

the Scottish Regional Director that Cleghorn Thomson in an interview the broadcasts would be reduced to as "misstatements of fiets." fire, while about a fortnight ago The statement continues: “ It is they were informed by Mr. Cleg-ovident that it was all along in- horn Thomson that," with the ap-tended that at least five pro-

to build a dynamo giving this volt-' }; -, age when the current is small, there are apt to be sparks flying JANGLING BETWEEN B.B.C.proval of Lontion headquartis, a grammes should be broadcast from

when a current of 16 amperes or; so is wanted! The engineers have overcome this difficulty by building each machine in four sections with four separate commutators. Each handles 3,000 volts above the next, so that the risk of "shorts" is practically nil. The machinca, of"}

three of them, one being for cach course, are immense,

There are

transmitter, and the third as a spare. Little pipes run from parts of each machine to meters near the

AND MUSICAL GROUPS.

→THE QUESTION OF

BROADCASTING,

A dispute has arisen between the Glasgow Choral and Orchestral Union and the British Broadcast- ing Corporation.

A Scottish Regional Director of the B.B.C., Mr. D. Cleghorn Thom-

i

Choral and Orchestral Union con certs from Glasgow,

(9) The next avorment was that

at a meeting between representa- tives of the Union and. Sir John Reith in London, March 7, 1932, when the question of the broadcast-

further modification of the contract St. Andrew's Hall, and that certain had been decided upon, by which provincial programmes should being programme for next season was only two of the Glasgow pro- broadcast as well. grammes would be brondcast. Natu- Even if the recollection of the rally this method of dealing with Choral and Orchestral Union de contracts elicited vigorous protests.putation to Sir John Reith that ten

**

concerts were to be broadenst from Glasgow were erroneous, there is ample evidence in the correspond Corporation offcials of the intention

ander special consideration, Mr. R. H. Eckersley, in reply to a specifie question by Sir John Reith, stated' that there would be no obstacle to a renewal of the broadcasting con- tract for 10 bröndcasting from St. Andrew's Hall other than a finan-

Statement of 3.3.0.

The following statement was issued on June by the British ence of the British Broadcastingcial one, and that Sir John Reith Broadcasting Corporation over the signatures of Sir Jolin (Director-General) and Mr.

Reith D,

to broadcast at least fire pro grammes from Glasgow, and a hum.

gave no indication that the matter of finance would be of any import- anve, leaving the representatives of

Scottish Regional is being sub. Balety railings which surround them, son, had, it was stated, given the Cleghora Thomson (Scottish Reber of programmes from provincial the Union under the definite im

modulator voltages. A reading of all the main indicators is taken

These are remote reading thermo- meters which tell if the bearings are running hot. The remote read- ings are necessary because the safety gates cannot be opened for the control man to get at a

every hour, while the tranmmittergenerator without the power ener- giving supply bring automatically is working, and full entrice are

cut off. made in a log book. Ench of the big water-cooled valves I saw, has its own H.T. volts and grid bias meters. The need for these was ex- plain by the fact that when these valves become "soft" after my hours' working, the reading on the

A chat with an Edinburgh B.B.C. Station official told me what plans ATO in Rtore when Scottish Regional is in full programme operation. The service area of

Falkirk will enable the B.B.C. to

Union two alternatives,

Ono was to accept a very restrict- ed number of broadcasts or hand over the management of the Edin- burgh an. Glasgow concert scazonE to the New Scottish Philharmonic Ochestra (Ltd.),

At the annual general meeting of the Choral and Orchestral Union of Glasgow held last week Sir Daniel M. Stevenson, Bart, who presided, referred at some length to

the negotiations between the Union ing performances. A report by the and the B.B.C. regarding broadcast

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gional Director)~-~

The B.B.C., continuing its caden- vours to help orchestral work, is co-operating in the formation of Scottish National Orchestra in 1933, and is assisting independent organisations in Scotland. The

B.B.C has offered to broadcast, - ab a fee of £100 each, five concerts by the Scottish Orchestra, three to be public performatices outside Glas- gow. It is hoped that the Glasgow Choral and Orchestral Union will co-operate next year in the Scottish National Orchestra project. Special enre is being taken to avoid com-

centres as well.

pression that the programme of 10- "As may be imagined, therefore, broadcasts would be renewed. Mr. Cleghorn Thomson's letter of (3) The final averment was that May 16, 1032, restricting the broad- Mr. Cleghorn Thomson had in- casting programme to two concertstimated that as many of the mem from Glasgow and five from pro-hers of the Scottish Orchestr for

vincial centres came as a vary great surprise."

"Insulting" Proposal. The proposal that the organising of the Edinburgh and Glasgow con- certs should be handed over to the "Philharmonic" is particularly ridiculous and insulting.

"The impertinence, therefore, of

season 1932-33 had already been engaged, without being audition ed by Boult," there were only two possible courses open to the Choral. and Orchestral Union, either-

(a) To accept the offer to broad- cast only two of the Glasgow pro- grammes, together with three pro grammes of provincial concerts ut which the Scottish Orchestra would

are at Slaithwaite or Potters Bar, local H.T. meter will drop, and the shut down the Glasgow, Edinburgh Executive stated that Mr. Cleghorn petition between the Union and suggesting that the Choral and. Or be engaged, the broadcasting fee

and these people will already be experiencing wipe-out unleas special methods are adopted. The station is about thirty miles out of Edinburgh, and is about half way to Glasgow, though not in the direct

path.

The Most up-to-date Station.

fault will be indicated at once.

sections.

any other orchestra associated with broadcasting,

Glasgow Choral Union's Case.

A comprehensive statement deal- ing with the negotiations between them and the BBC regarding the broadcasting arrangements for 1932-33 was issued on Wednesday

Chorland Orchestral Union of

chestral Union, with its wealth of experience and tradition, should give place to an organisation of a temporary character, which has not yet properly began to function, is well-evident.

in respect of the provincial con- crats being paid to the local pro- moters and not to the Choral and Orchestral Union; or

(b) To hand over the manage- ment of the Edinburgh and Glas- gow concert. seasons from Septem "To anyone at all conversant ber to the directors of the Phillar- with the relative musical values,monie," who have all the machinery

to hand and all the data necessary." the allocation of 15 broadcasts to

This averment is evident by Mr. non-existent Philharmonic Orchestra 21, 1932, and is not open to ques

tion.

and Dundee transmitters. Wenter-Thomson had made the proposal glen was working on 376.4 metres that they should agree either to a There are the usual precautions on the occasion of my visit, and I against breakdown, and against the am told that the National will be

very restricted broadenst of their concerts or hand over the manage- operators getting fatal electrical on 288.8 metres. Westergien is no shocks. In every valve stage ex-working with its normal power, but ment of the Edinburgh and Glasgow cept the lust, spare valves can be I saw that there was one valve concert seasons to the directors brought in simply at the touch of spare in each of the final push-pull of the new Scottish Philharmonie

Orchontes (ptd); :- a switch control. In some of the Altogether. Westerglen impresses,

ཀ panels this single switch is time-ong as a job thoroughly well done,

Representatives of the Choral and as a natural development of "baby" is an improvement on the grid and high-voltage circuits in preceding stations. B.B.C. ngin- Sir John Reith in London, under- London and Northern stations, as their proper order, giving the flacers who have worked during long stood that the Union would broad-

and tedious hours to get Wester- the B.B.C. has, of course, grineu ment of the reserve valve time to glen going according to schedule cast, as formerly, ten concerts at much experience in the actual warm up before the working H.T. deserve to be 'congratulated-S.C. working of the existing centres. It voltage is switched on. The panels in•l'opular Wireless, ie nevertheless a tribute to the are interlocked so that no electrical. foresight of the engineers that they live parts can be touched while actual improvements are of a minor the power is on. Immediately the nature, and the main outline of tho interlocking switches are turned off, twin tränamitters I recently saw at the safety doors can be opened. All Westerglon is the same as that of the main ..condensers fre auto- the two proceding stations.

matically shorted" and discharg-

In every way, the latest B.B.C.lagged, and brings in the filament, the experience gained with the two! and Orchestral Union, interviewing by the Executive Committed to the the Reid Orchestra and five to the Cleghom Thomson's lettor of May

The station is built of locni greyed, too, so that even this danger stone, striking a characteristic note, is removed.

Above the hall are the emergency The station plan is roughly that of

Special Brookmans Park. The acrials, of studio and test room. course, are vastly different. There cables connect the station with are only two masts. Each supports Glasgow and Edinburgh, so that an umbrella type of aerial consist the studio will normally be used ing of three cables stretched from only for testing.

The apparatus the top of the musis to points near testing room is now being fitted the ground. There are the usual out. It will have a relay receiver twin feeder lines running out to for use on the National programme cach aerial, and the familiar little from 5XX if the landlines break; white stone huts at the foot of each down and cathode-iny oscillograph masts, housing the serial coupling testing apparatus. transformer.

HAVE YOU HEARD

Here are lists of long-waVE and short-wave stations which should be picked up by anyone Ln, Hong Kong who has a mode- rately good set muitable for ro- calving such signals. Success in picking up these stations also depends very largely upon fav- ourable atmospheric conditions. Readers ara invited to ađã to. this list should they succeed in picking up any station not in cluded in either of these istu.

Before going through to the machine and Diesel engine rooms I The site is about MO feet above asked the engineer why the B.B.0. sch level. The masts are 600 feet had installed generating, plant when high. It is not to be wandered at the high-voltage cables of the grid that there is a good signal. Red system run right by the Westerglen lights glow at night above the masts site, and it would have been pos as a warning to aircraft. Four sible to take an AC supply direct. pillars of insulating material keep The effective answer came that the masts above earth potential, taking into account all overbeads, 50 as this avoids mast "shadow"

486 running ooste and deprociation of which creates a directional effect. plaat, the B.B.C. can manufacture 41

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& teo of £100 each. Later, the Union officials were informed by

THESE?

LONG-WAVE STATIONS.

Ware length

Call Kilo (Metres) Station Sign cycla

230 Manila

KZLB. 1,153 277 Shanghai K.S.M.S. 1,083 345 Tokyo J.O.A.K. $70 353. Hiroshima J.O.F.K. 860 355 Hong Kong Z.D.W. 840 357.1 Bombay 381 Sapporo

360 Kaijo

V.U.B. 840 J.O.LK 830 J.O.D.K. 1920 J.O.C.K. 810 V.U.C 800.9 350 Kumamoto 3.0.G.E. 700 300 Bondai J.O.H.E. 770

370 Nagoya 370.4 Calcutta

395 Dairen

400 Osaka

410 Canton 480 Manila

SHORT-WAVE STATIONS,

STATION

CALL 8ION

A.G.J. REN.

1.M.A.

QA.G.

KILO

CTCLES

J.Q.A.K. 760

J.O.B.K. 750 C.M.B. 732 K.Z.R.M. 023:

TI (Boro Koro)

OF, WORKING

- 4,436 | Mon, Wed 18 Fri, 8 p.mid 230m

4,000 6-10 p.m. 6,291 Not regular

6,000 Tue, Thurs, Sat. 8p.mr

6,800 Bunday midnight

7,142 Daily 5.80 p.m.

11 p.m.

7,810 Not regular

7,780 Daily 11 p.

8,108 Tues, & Fr, 0 pm-1am.

67,65 Dobiats (Geridany) A.F.K 60,13 Khabarovsk (Rusija) B.A.97.

Nauenw 507

Mosco Home Perth Singapore

V.S.1.A.E, P.C.L. HSAPI. Hangkok (čiam) Bydney

1,230 Not regular BLO. 8165 Melbourne

9,60% Not regular W.2X.A.F. 8,580 Daily 7 a.m. 81,48 Schenectady B1.20 Eindhoven (Holland) | R.C.), (4 1,620 || Fri, 8 8.m, Bab, 8 am, & 10 aİD. 31.23 Sydney

9,600 Not regalar Nairobi (Kenya)

6,677 10,695 Midnight dally "Bydoby

Bandreag 27.8 25.68 Chainsford (England) 6.5.W,

37.

-86.9

Before going into the station build-its own power for only approxi- 88-8 Kootwijk (Holland) ing 'I' was shown the valve water-mately id. a unit! Furthermore, cooling arrangements which are like with Diesel engines and D.O. generatore it is possible to have those at Brookmans Park, it not storage batteries and a consequent being considered necessary to con- means of preventing breakdown for struct a huge water pool us was done an hour or more.. at Slaithwaite.

The main building comprises the -engine room, battery room, machine room, and transmitter hall. In ad- dition there are the same type of

Big Oll Engines.

28.6

9.F.0.

*ME.

P.LR

Mazila

K.1.X.R.

23.36 18.88 18.4 17.4

245 Schenectady.

Bandoŋng Kootwijk (Holland) Bandcong

Waxo.

P.LG.

P.C.I

Four heavy-oil engines give the power for the whole station. These provide the heating as well as the electrical power and lighting, for the exhaust gas is used to heat control rooms, store rooms, offices a small water boiler! These hugs · 18,9- Bangkok

Kootwijk (Holland) and test rooms aa'at the other two | engines drive 230 volt direct-cur- stations.

rent generators, and in another part 1674 Bandou

Nancy (France) 18.98 Pittsburg

of the building this 930-volt supply At the moment only the Regional is stepped up or down by rotary side of the transmitter is working; converters for each circuit. In the that is the set of panels and con- battery room there are 2,000-a.h. trol desk on the right of the hall of taking over the job of running atorage batteries which are capable

approaching from the entrance. The the whole station.

10.1

́155.

B.L.F

Not regular

11,020 Midnight--8 sm. dally

| | 11,761 | 7.30 pm. 4.8 a.m. dally, except

1224 Baturday and Sunday.

Nightly

12,650 € Am: Wed, Izi, info

16,102 Daily 8.30pm, to midnight

16,204 Daily 7pm.

17.280 Dally 8 p.

midnight

17,751 Sundays 7 pm & midnight

18,495 Each afternoon.

H.6.1.P.J. FOK PLE

18420 Dally 5.80-7 pm

19,651 Dally 3

WS.LK.

21,440 Not regular

[Allowance must be made for "! summer-tims 3 in most Euro- "pean countries, which is one hour ahead of tena thaka

Glasgow, following a meeting pre- on the one hand, and only two sided over by Sir Daniel M. Steven-broadcasts to the Scottish Orchestra son, Bart.

on the other hand, is impossible of justification.

Claiming to have taken the initia- tive in the efforts for establishing

Orchestral scheme."

"The Choral and Orchestral a National Orchestra in conjuncUnion yields to no one in keenness tion with the Committee of the for the promotion of a National Edinburgh Concert Society, the Executive Committee hold that no steps should be taken rashly which might prejudice the existing or- chestral scheme without a satisfac tory national substitute.,

Negotiations Bevlawed.

The Executive Committee of the Choral Union have made a state- ment of the facts averred.

The statement is eigned on behalf

(1) The first averment was that of the Executive Committee by Mr. Joseph Burns, secretary of the on February 11, 1932, Mr. D. Glasgow Choral and Orchestral Cleghorn Thomson, the Scottiala Union.

Regional director of the British

to

At the outact is adduces evidence Broadcasting Corporation, threaten.

substantinte thie statements ¦ ed that unless the members of the. made at the annual general meet-Scottish Orchestra for season 1039-33 ing of the Union recently, and were clected by audition, he would which were later described by Mr. decline to broadenst any of the

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