1932-12-22 — Page 2

SELF CONTAINED WIRELESS SET

CLOCK THAT LISTENS

FOR TIME SIGNALS

destined for use at Glasgow,

BRITISH RADIO

EXHIBITION

MANUFACTURERS SUR- PRISED AT RESULTS

and component parts are consi

sulted

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

UNIQUE RADIO

SERVICE

MICRO-RAY"TO"AID AIR TRAFFIC

RADIO TELEPHONY service area of each station has TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

FOR SHIPPING

BRITISH COASTAL STATIONS COMPLETE

been arranged to overlap than of the next adjoining station on either side so as to from a completa ss1 vice area round the British Isles..

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES

11-11.30

a.m.-Stock quotations, weather report, eta

11.30 am-Chinese recorded pro-

gramme.............

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Columbia records supplied by Messrs, Anderson Music Co. pim-Local time and weather re-

port

1.34 p.m.-Rugby Press news, select-

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Advantage of Service.

The shortest wave length.on kny

The advantage of this wireless Even the most optimistic, among wireless service in the world is used

The work of equipping eight ad telephony service is that it enables set United Kingdom radio manufae special apparatus set up additional stal wireless stations ships which do not nenually carry. self-contained wireless which starts itself and stops itselfers were surprised at the ex-Lympie, near Hythe, in connection

lent result of the tenth annual with cross-Channel Rying.

with wireless telephone installa-

installations, -with-alnost uncanny accuracy is * | British Radio Exhibition Al It is called the micro-ray," for tions which was entrused to the wireless telegraph

Taternational Marine and are under no obligation to de most interesting denture of a new though, the prices of wireless sets it has a scale of tiny fractions of Communication Company, Jimited, so under international regulations, 12.30 p.m.-European programme of

a metre. It has been developed by Master Frequency Control Clockderably lower this year than last, Air Ministry experts for one high by the General Post Office Inet to enjoy the benefits of wireless with Ind by the turnover has been much larger. ;ly important but limited service.

May, has now been completed, and communication 11 of these stations are in opera- means of the simplest and most It will there be used for time-Where last year's exhibition re This is rapid and MULTA com.

in the sale of 1 millionmunication with

economical apparatus which can bot tion and available to shipping. controlling the frequency of the batteries, this year orders have aerodrome, in France, respecting St. - Inglevert

operated by a member of the ship's Beginning with Wick.... in the ordinary personnel without the ad- alternating current supply through-heen booked for two million wote, cross Channel air traffic. It will north of Scotland these stations dition of a skilled wireless opern-

ed London and New York stock ut the Scottish Grid" system ten million valves and twenty ensure the quickest possible order-extend down the East Coast, where tor.

quotations, ste,⠀⠀ and as it is imperative that the million batteries. There was ing of life-saving operations in the there are Cullercoats, the Humber, member of the crew has to obtain 5-8 p.m.European programme.

In order to operate the saba 2 p.at-Close down, clock should be kept continuously large increase in export orders.

event of an aeroplane being comand North Foreland. Then comes a licence from the Postmaster-5-6-pem. A relay of the Revellers- true to Greenwich time provision In these times of trade difficulpotted to dewend to the sen Niton, in the Isle of Wight, and General and to pass a simple test has been made for the automatie ties and depression it is encourag- For this purpus and for the Land's End, with-Fishguard, Sean the operation of the net, but

Orchestra from the Hong Kong reception of broadcast time signals Ling to find such signs of health in

succour of ships in distress also forth and Port Patrick on the this presents no difficulty.

Hotel Roof Garden by courtesy by the wireless set mentioned

on of Britain's youngest indas- the organisation is provided with West Coast, Malin Head,

of the Management (During. Northern Ireland, and Valentia,

the intervals recorded music The set is permanently tuned in tries. Ten years ago it had barely fast motor lifeboate.

will be broadcast from the No Interference, to the desired station and can begin to exist, yet to-day it given

employment, directly and in its!

Studio.). adjusted to come into operation ancillary trades, to a million peo any hour or halfhour during the ple, while the vast sum of £80 twenty-four al, which time signals million of capital is already sunk are sent out several times during, in the industry. The Exhibition the day if neesanry, Then, two itself, which the British Radio minutes before the selected hour. Manufacturers Association consi- the wireless programme, whateverder of such value to their trade it my be, will be heard on the that they have, already booked powerful movingcoil speaker, fol Olympia for their annual show lowed by the time signal and two!

for five years to come, has grown minutes further programme, "at the i

from 32 stands ten years ago,

provides

a

in the Irish Free State.

in

has been shown very clearly by the The utility of this new service

steadily increasing number of ships, The distance between the There is now, therefore, a com- both trawlers nad conating vessels, Lympic and the reciprocating sta-plete chain of low-power wireless that have been fitted with the low- tion at St. Englevert is less than telephone stations round the ecasts powered ship installations designed twenty-five miles, The micro-ray of the United Kingdom and the by the Mardini Company for use could not he used over a greater Irish Free State by means of which with these coast stations. We are range. It is so delienta that the all abips voyaging in British waters informed by the Marconi Interna curvature of the earth would in- and ships on international voyagestional Marine Communication terfere with the signals even in while within 900, or 300 miles of Compinny, Limited, that there are that short distance, without special the British coasts can, if suitably now come 150 ships fitted with this précautions.

The mirrors at each end are equipped, communicate by telep apparatus, and that very consi

end of which the set is automatic covering an area of 8,000 square up in the top of hangars. Unlese hony with one or other of these derable use is being made of the nfly switched off. This full four feet, to 300 stands, covering an they were fixed with mathemation const stations at any time. The service by these ships. minutes operation warning to the engineer that the area of 300,000 square feet this precision facing each other, the sime sigual is coming through and nr. The number of visitors to micro-ray" would not be receiv ample latitude should there be the exhibition has, of course, grown in proportion, namely, from 6,300 any discrepancy between the time indiented by the clock and that ten years ago to nearly 200,000 this year, and of foreign buyers wix given by the signal.

times as many arrived as before.

The receiving set is a three-valve circuit, mains driven and, it is in teresting note, served by the same pair of leads as those which operate the clock. It is fitted in the base which houses the clock and its re- Pording dials,

RADIO MANNERS

It is, perhaps, just as well that

ed.

With these precautions" taken, however, and the system securely installed, the results are perfect It has the advantage of complete freedom frain interference by any other wireless operations, ac mat- ter how busy the ether.

the foreign areas so that complete

the interfernce with brodeust sta・・ control is, exercised. Abuses such tions, which has been going on for as the one complained of can only some time to the discomfort of lisbe cured by the closest cooperation The clock itself is a Smithteners-in, should be ventilated wher and as there is plenty of room on Synchronome Master Frequency the Nanking Government is connir for all the many stations that Clock of the latest free pendulamsidering regulations for the con have sprung up in and around type. the pendulum deriving its trol of radio. It is probable Shanghai, conditions attached to power from a small 4-volt battery trickle charged from the mains. that something will be done to rec- the licensing of such stations, The extraordinary accuracy of in-tify present buses. Why certain thoroughly enforced, would have struments working on this principle stations should find it desirable to the effect of preventing any en- is, of course, very generally re-breast on the same wave length thusiast's enjoyment being spoiled as others is a little difficult to un: in the manner it is at present. In cognized.

dereland, for their own mission any event such misbehaviour 14 suffers just as much as the stations has been noticed, particularly whose Ware length they have recently, is the greatest possible usurped. It would seem necessary, argument for the Government tak- when the government's regulations, ing the measures it has signified arm enforced. foi some sort of its intention of doing--X.C." Daily municipal action to be taken in ↑ Neios,

The clock is believed to be the first to linked with a radio ally of the kind elecribed. The makers are Messrs. Smith's English Clock Ltd., 185, Great Portland Street, London, W.1.

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