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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1932.

FEATURES OF THE RADIO SHOW.

"BIGGER AND BETTER."

London, Aug. 19.--" Bigger and better" have ban the adjectives us ed to describe the Radio Exhibition at Olympin each succeeding year. The same description may be appli- od with more force than ever to the exhibition which opens today, for compared with twelve months

RADIO

FEATURES

£30,000,000 RADIO TEN YEARS OF

SALES PUSH.

BROADCASTING.

MANUFACTURERS PLAN TO BIRTHDAY RADIO

SELL 1,800,000 SETS.

OLYMPIA SHOW, FEATURES,

The radio show at Olympia. Lon- don, opening on Aug. 19, for nine days.

The cost of, the exhibition is to be ngo it has doubled in size, and is £30,000, and the manufacturers

EXHIBITION.

OPENING OLYMPIA FROM

OTTAWA.

London, Aug. 18-From Parlin- ment Buildings, Ottawa, Mr. J. H. Thomas will officially open tho Radio Exhibition et Odympia to-

Alming at Perfection.

Olympia has behind it the his-

toric traditions of half a century

of exhibitions, but it was never imagined during the first forty years of its existence that it would house a great national ex- hibition of radio products such as Radiolympia,

over

All the vast resources of research

laboratories, and the finest scienti fo brains in the country, have com-

PROGRAMME

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES.

will be represented as two of the TO-DAYS WIRELESS bodies which play an important! part in the development of radio.

The manufacturers may supply: you with a seb, but cannot, of course, control disturbances which detract from the enjoyment of list- ening-in. These are the outside in- terferences, such as electric signs, tramways, electric lifts, and other distractions. At the exhibition the ,Post Office authorities will demon-;

strate how these electrical distur

11.30 am-Chineso programme. 11 to 11:30 am-Stock quotations.

12.30 p.m.-European programme of

Columbia records.

1 p.m.-Local time and weather

report.

1.30 p.m.--Rugby Press news, etc.

more varied end more representa are estimating for a sale of 1,800,- day. His voice will come by wire-/bined with the perfect workman bances can be, if not eliminated 2 p.m.-Close down.

tive of the radio industry. Wan-1000 sets and a trade turnover of coring round the.300 stands one about: £30,000,000. As the turn- notices many comes of firms which over last year was £90,750,000 an |1,250,000 sets, the public are to be given greater value for their money this year.

have not exhibited before.

The feature of the exhibition is quality rather than novelty. Among the exhibits sufficiently novel to de- serve notice are the Zetavox seta, which have a remarkable system of automatic tuning. There are nine keys by means of which nine stations may be tuned in-by the head of the household, ay, before he leaves

If these figures are reached it will bring the licensed holders of sets to over 6,300,000, or one set to every two homes in the country.

Free Dancing.

Buccess

the Exhibition and "many happy returns of the day" to the B.B.C., whose tenth birth day it celebrates.

less telephony to the thousands pre-ship and technical knowledge of the sont do wish good fortune and engineers and manufacturers to

to

bring wireless receiving sets and components up to the highest pos- sible pitch of excellence. Ten years ago there was prae-· There will be no startling inno- tically no radio industry. Ten vations in set-construction this scara "go there

no B.B.C. Was

year, The manufacturers have con- Yet, between 1922 and 1932 the first

perfecting the tiny studio at the top of Marconi centrated mainly on House has grown into the giant existing models and improving re- edifice which stands in Langham-ception, so that wherens last year place, and the weird efforts of the}] first manufacturers have produced set claimed to receive twenty or the great association which repre-thirty stations, this year it will do sents neadly £30,000,000 of British the same, but with more fidelity of

tone and natural quality,

In the Grand Hall 300 zats were for business in a morning. His wife shown. Additional floor space was or even a child may then put any made by a temporary floor, for of the stations on the loud-speaker, which 76 tons of girders were used, at any moment merely by pressing The National Hall provided the a lover. These sets have automatic higgest danen floor in London-and¦ capital. volume control and are all-electric.lancing was free all day. The

Another firm (Ferranti) has a set whole exhibition was flood-lighted people realise between the manu- incorporating an electric clock which works independently of the radiy apparatus There is a port able, which weighs one pound and can be carried shout in the pocket, and a set with only one knob to control youmle wave-length, and on -off switch,

Apart from these features, radio enthusiasts will be chiefly interested in the progress made in securing quality, selectivity, and simplicity, It those respect there have been great advances. Most of the radio firms now make sure of correct mat- ching of speaker and set by hous- ing both in the same cabins, in- stead of leaving the public to exer cise their own discretion (often badly) in choosing a speaker.

All Electric Beta.

in crimson and gold if the weather was cool ared in blue and silver if. was hot.

t

It would appear from the num- ber shown that this is a radio-gram year. A development of the idea

There is a closer link than many

facturers of radio instruments and Life birth of British broadcasting.

ilon will be the comparative cheap The great feature of the exhibi-

ne

of the modela Last year a

It was the manufacturers who gave radio-gramophone could not be broadcasting to the nation. It bought under £35, this year the was six of the first manufacturers samo of model will cost only £25.

of whom the Radio Manufactur-

is, to corporate a third entertainers' Association is the direct cor- ment-television.

parate successor-who risked £10,-

The chief development of radio. during the year has been in loud speaker reproduction. The old com- promise between high and low nute output, has givin place "to-twin

oud speaker.

"Presa-the Button" Bet.

1.

Post Office's Part.

The manufacturers will not be,

entirely, at least minimised.

3 to 8 p.m.-European programme. 5 to 6 p.m.) relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestra, conduct- ed by Mr. J. Futera, by courtesy of the Management. (During the intervals recorded music will be broadcast from the Studio)

to 7.15 p.m.--A programme of

Columbia records.

16 to 6.36 p.m.→→

The B.B.C. will continue, at Ra- diolympin, to carry on their main function the broadcasting of radio entertainments. They will have their stadio in the exhibition, from which they will broadcast to the 6 loud speakers all over Olympia programmes of entertainment for visitors. In addition, there will be

a huge model of the new Broad- casting House, which will open like a book, and permit you to see all the studios from, which the pro- are broadcast, together

and offices that comprise the build- with the control rooms,

grammes

ing.

library,

For a ten-year-old industry the position radio has reached among the other industries of the country approaches the miraculous, and from to-day until the 27th of this month Radiolympia will house all

000 each, and formed the first Bri- tish Broadcasting Company. It by any means, the only exhibitors. that is finest and most attractive was they who pioneered it through Both the Post Office and the B.B.C. | among its manufactures, those turbulent years, combating scepticism, facing criticism pessimism to hand it over to the

and

Government only four years later HAVE YOU HEARD THESE?

as one of the greatest forces in do-

Enormous Growth,

A variant on this is a tone-cor-mestic and civil life, reator, which will enable the loud speaker to be set to register high or low uotes in particular according

This is the anniversary which the

to the type of programme being radio manufacturers are commem- broadcast. These two inventions orating this year by the grentest All-electric sets are exhibited in ought to improve quality and make | radio exhibition the world has ever much larger numbers than former-listening more pleasurable and eri- seen. This industry, in its infan- ly, and tone control devices are tical.

more common.

Considerable atton- Those who like mechanical devices tion has been paid to selectivity will be entered for in a "press-the- eases ex-button" set. This will not mean a and tuning is in most tremely simple It would seem, encrifice of flexibility. Tuning will indeod, that the system of finding be possible in the ordinary way, stations by numbers on a dial will but an owner may preset the dial gradually disappear.

The number of radiograms on view is an indication of how popu- lar they have become. It is es timated that whereas last year there were only 50 radiograms, this year there что

in such a way that members of the family will have the choice of nine stations by the more pressing of the appropriate button.

to

cy ten years ago, hna now grown to such enormous dimensions that

afford the manufacturers can

an eight-day exhibition as much as they contributed to the formation of the first B.B.C.

spend on

Some idea of the enormous stri des made in domestic broadcasting may be gained from the fact that There is also a device which gives the first programmes were listened what might he termed visual tun-

a thousand. They aro ang. The operator can adjust the to by only about 20,000 people, cheaper,too, ranging from as low device so that the tuning of stations while during the present exhibi. ns 10 guineas, though it is possible can be seen at once and expert twid- tion it is expected that the 5,000,- to pay 100 guineas for luxury modling of the dial becomes unneces- dels.

There will no doubt be a good

Here are liste of long-wAYD 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 deponds very largely upon fav- ourable atmospheric conditions." Readers are invited to add to- this list should they mcceed in picking up any station not tm--- cluded in either of these lists.

LONG-WAVE STATIONS.

Ware length

Call Kilo (Metres) Station Biga cycle

260 Manila

K.ZL.B. 1,113 977 Shanghai K.B.M.S. 1,083 346 Tokyo J.O.A.K, 870 353 Hiroshima J.O.EK. 880

846 355 Hong Kong Z.B.W. 357.1 Bombay V.U.B. 840 361 Sapporo J.O.LK. 630 366 Kaijo J.Q.D.K. 890 J.O.C.K. 810 V.U.C. 800.3

370 Nagoya 370.4 Calcutta

305 Daiton

380 Kumamoto J.0.G.K. 790

J.O.H.K. 390 Sendai

70 J.Q.A.K. 760 J.Ó.B.K.

750 C.M.B. 788 K.Z.RM. 495

400 Osaka 410 Canton 480 Manila

SHORT-WAVE STATIONS.

[1,3,A.. 8.A.G. V.§.1.4.3.

CYCLES

Ti (Hona Kowa) –

OF WORKING"

4,434 Mon., Wed.& Fri., 0 p.m. & 3 m 4,000 | 6--10 p.m.”

.6,291 | Not regular

6,000 Tue, Thurs., Sat., 8 pm.

6,800 Sunday midnight

7,143 Daily 8.80 p.m. & 11 p.m.

7,810 Not regular

·7/180 | Daily 11 pm

8,108 Tuss, & Fri. 9 p.m.--1 a.m.

D,&m Not regular

0,680 || Daily 7

9,020 Fri. 3., Sat, 5 am, & 10 m.m..

9,590. Tot regular

Midnight daily & 10,328 Not regular

. Variety.

Song" Love Everlasting." Song "I Want Your Heart.”— Ina Souez (Soprano).— DB630. Orchestral-" Bow Balls"-Selec- tion.-Jack Payne and bis

Dance B.B.C.

Orchestra.-

DB733.

-

Vocal Duet Love, You Funny

Thing."

Vocal Dust Strangers."-Lay-

ton and Jolinstone.-DR847. Guitar Solo-" Goodnight Vien-

A."-Len Fillis.-DH709. Orchestral Long Ago." Orchestral - "Kissen · in the

Dark"-Albert Sandler

his Orchestra.-DB70). Vocal

and

Chorus Little Annie

Rooney,"

Vocal' Chorus-" Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-Wow."-The Maestros.-DB421.

0,38 to 6.30 p.n).---

Octettas,

"Souvenir" (Drdla, arr. Wil

loughby). "Phantos Minuet" (Hope).-J. H. Squire Celeste Octette.- DB809.

"Echoes of the Ball" (Willough-

by).

"Love's Dicam After the ·Ball '* (Czibulka, arr. Willoughby).— J. H. Squire Celeste Octette.- DB399.

7 p.m.-Stock quotations, etc. 6.50 to 7.15 p..

Orchestral and Band Music.

"Parade of the Elephants "

(Chenette).

The Old Frog Pond" (Alford). Reg, Band of H.M. Grenadiër Guarda.-DB507.

The Clock and the Dresden Figures" (Retelhay). Wedgwood. Blue" (Ketelbey),-f Albert W. Ketalbey's Concert Orchestra.--DX27.

RADIO

"Lächestraum "*. (Liszt, ATT:

Somers). "Caprice Yinnnois" (Kreisler,

arr. Tiersch).-Debroy Somers. Band.--D130.

7.15 to 8p.m.--

From the Studio.

A Recital by Mndame Iwai (Pionist), Mr. Iwni (Violiņjet) and Master Iwai (Xylophonist- --131 years old).

Programme.

1. March-Sambre at Mouso

(Rauski)

9. Long, Long Ago (Variation)

(Dittrich)

3. Zigeuner-Weisen (Gypsy Air)

(Sarasate).

4. Souvenir de Spa (Geldard). 3. Concert (Allegro) (Mendals-

Bohn).

0 Echigojishi (Japanese Music)

(arr. Kitamura).

7. William Tell (Fantasie)

(Kruger).

8 p.m.-Local time and weather

report.

8.03 to 10.30 p.m.-Chineso Studio,

concert.

16.30 p.m.-Rugby mid-day Press

news.

10.30 p.m.-Close down.

All records in the above Euro- pean programmes are supplied by Messrs. Anderson Music Co.

For TONE.

QUALITY,

BEAUTY, DURABILITY,

obtain the

MORRISON

PIANO

(Guaranteed ten years)

FOR SALE OR HIRE

at

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY,

8, Des Voeux Road, Central

(Entranco Ice House Street) Telephone 24848.

TROUBLES?

23743

PHONE

STATION

CALL BION

sary.

000th listener will receive his licen-

CC.

is a system by which the general. ful fountain which is one of the 245 There has been a large increase in colour scheme of the stands can be exhibition's special features is a 18.88 the gumber of demonstratioz-rooms. changed at will from silver and large trap-door. This opening was 17.4 10.0 Their numbers run into scores. In blue (when the weather is hot) to a made by Mr. C. B. Cochran's in- 108

16.74 these rooma the public may hear warm orion and gold (when the structions in 1011, and with power. 16,5 sets at work, and in one case one temperaturu fails). For those who ful bellows blowing・・ imitation. -firm will also how a film doors seek a despite frota the round of the famen – was

trating how its producte are made. stands the largest dance floor in Miracle

Continued at foot of next column.) London is available.

there

deal of interest in the new twin feature that will attract atten- loud-speakers, by means of which it tion is an electric robot which can is claimed that a much wider stand, sit, move its arms, and insight day Radiolympia will trane 23

a loud voice extol the virtues of the form them into a absolute fairy- range of audio-frequencies can be

Mullard valve. handled, giving more faithful re-

The lighting effects are, as usual, production. Moving-coil speakers striking. In the centre of the large are more numerous, and as prices hall a tall pylon reflects every co- are lowed it is anticipated that lour of the rainbow with the aid they will become much more popu lar than in the past,

will be Olympia no more. For 45.5

07.66 Que The great halls that are Olympia | 66.7

30

Dobintz (Gormany) A.F.K Khabarovsk (Russia).A.97, [A.G.L. R.P.N.

器

Ronie Perth

Singapore

33.8

27

Jand of light and colour that will house all that is latest and best in 81.20 British redio.

35.2 8160 21.48

31.28

31.

In the centre of the Grand Hall,

29,5

27.8

Kootwijk (Holland) P.O.L. Bangkok (Biam) HSAPJ Sydney

2.B.L. www. Melbourne

BLO Bokanectady

W.ZXA.F Findhoren (Holland) P.C.J. Sydney Nairobi (Kanys) 7.1.0. Sydney

| 2.M.E, PLE Ubalmsford (England) 5.8.W.

0,230 Not regular

1.3.0.

0,077

Manila

22.80

Schenectady -Handoqng:-

18.4.

17.98

Kootwijk (Holland).

POL Bandoong

PLF Bangkok

H.8.1.P.J Kootwijk (Holland) P.O.K Bindong Nancy (France) Pittsburg

PLE

W.B.X.K.

21,640 Not regular

(Opposite Star Ferry).

when

was produced.

[Allowance must be made for "sommer-time" in mort Buro-

pean countries, which is one hour bead of true time.]

of forty 1,000-watt lamps, and there acting as the base to the wonder-25,53

K.1.X.E. W.2.X.O. P.LO.

11,020 | Midnight—8 a.m. dally 11,751 730 pm, & 8 am, daily, except

Saturday and Sunday. 12,240 Nightly d 13,850 4. Wed., Fri., Sat. 16,102 Daily 6.30p.m. to midnight 10,304 Dally 7 PA BA

1280 | Dally 8 pm to midnight. 17,751 Banday's 7 paní do midnight 18,406 | 743 Afternoon;

19,250 Daily 0,30--7 path. 19,951 Daily B &

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