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Okeh Records

HAVE

AVE you any difficulty in obtaining an Orchestra

for your Dance Parties ?

If so, why not have the loan of the MAGNAVOX TELEPHONOGRAPH from the Okeh Studio f

With the Magnavox Telephonograph you can play all the latest dance records as loud as an Orchestra or Band in full strength and at less than one-tenth of the cost of an Orchestra.

OKEH STUDIO

8 Des Vœux Road. Central.

(Corner of Ice House Street.)

Tel. No. C.4453.

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AGENTS.

The Chian soap Co., Ltd., Stanghal. Hongkong. Tientsio Backow.Timofe-Moukdes

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.

HONGKONG GETTING INTERESTED.

AN INTERESTING AMERICAN STATION.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1923.

Aerial station at Wilbur Wright field. Dayton, U.S.A.

It was from this station that {messages were broadcast every hour during the week of the air mail tests, dealing with weather conditions along the rout. At the same time this station, itself practically now, was subjected to: ļa severe test and wasn't found

wanting in any particular.

This station has come to be known as the heart of the weather service" for the air ser- rice. In the four months that experiments have been conducted hero, meteorological information to and from all the stations on the mail routes, as well as along the model airways, was gathered daily and broadcasts to "such Istations that required it.

Local storms Are "chased down" and details given to fliers. so they may dodge the

areas.

storm

The station is the most power- ful in the mid-west. Its com- mercial effectiveness is consider- ed to be 1,000 miles. However, an emergency set with a range of 3,000 miles is in use. It is simlar in every respect to the finited States Shipping Board station, for communicating with vessels far at ses.

Radio is gradually coming into! Company has been able to reduce its own in Hongkong, thanks to the prices of these in Hongkong to the enterprise of the Hongkong $7.50 for the type "R" valve and Hotel Company, which has been $13 for the "D.E.R." valve. Below At each of the stations on the carrying out a series of most in-is a full list of the retail prices model airways the signal corps teresting and beneficial broad-in Hongkong currency of the maintains a meteorological post casting tests under the supper-material which the Company has where data for the weather re intendence of Mr. W. E. Orchard,lin stock:-

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in charge of the Company's elect-Type R valves rical department. Demonstra-Type "D.E.R.' valves tions are being given nightly, and BC55 Accumulators 6 V. to-morrow there will be a special 30 amp in teak case with programme to which the public pin plug and flex has an opportunity of listening at BC63 60 V. H.T. units in the Volunteer Headquarters, the case with plug and flex Repulse Bay Hotel, the Himgkong BC83 Headgear Receiver Telegraph office (by arrangement), BC453 100 fi coils of en the Peak Club and the Engineers amelled copper wire Institute.

722 with down rod loca- tor and two galvanised end shackles

als

Everyone is now looking for- ward to the time when the radio BC455 Aerial Insulators

RC463 Pulley Blocks question locally will be put on a firm footing. In this connection BC467 Earth Clips the Radio Society can help BC469 Leading in termin- bring arguments to bear on the

RC47 Earthing switc Government, showing that there

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STONE... hope to see a large attendance at to-morrow's meeting, which should mark the beginning of a period of beneficial activity.

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BC1001 Crystal Sets with standard arial equip- ment'... BC1501 Crystal sets with standard grial equip "Gemophone" sets and equip

ment... ment are w becoming most BC2001 Two valve sets popular locally. The General with accumulators and Electric Company of China. Lid.. H.T battery (na zeria! now has pood stocks of both sizes equipment) of crystal sets and also of the RC2572 single valve low "Giccophone" two-valve sets.

amplifiers frequency with valve... which have been giving satis- factory results in Hongkong. BC2620 table type loud

From the Company we have speakers... received copies of booklets de- BC2610 Gecophone loud scribing "Ciecophone" material, >peaker with moulded one of which gives illustrations ebonite horn und 2 and details of wireless accessories

valve amplifier ... for making upsets. The Company. expects to have stocks of all these. in Hongkong in about four week's time.

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ports i compiled at stated inter- $7.50 vals and then relayed to the 13.00 station at Wilbur Wright field, be consolidated and then broadcasted to all the stations. 41.00

Velocity of air currents up to 15,000 feet, their direction and 28.00 other information as to weather 15.00 conditions is included in the re-

ports. At different elevations cur rents of air are encountered mor- ing in opposite directions. The valueofinformation given to pilots 3.60 before leaving one station for an- 1.30 other is incalculable, as they are 1.00

able thereby to map their course .90 and

avoid conditions which would interfere with flying,

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$1.75

Two steel antennae masts, each 165 feet high and 450 feet apart, -support a five-wire aerial.

radio The ground station, or hut," is the centre of the ground; system, which consists of copper) bands one-eighth inch thick and eight inches wide, laid on edge in $55.00 three concentric circles.

$15.00

The outer circle has a radius) of 250 feet, the middle radius $95.00 of 125 feet, while the centre

$260.00

circle forms the central point and; surrounds the hut. The concen- tric circles are joined radially at: 19 points, the whole being bonded f and buried 36 inches in the round. From the centre circle. copper tubes extend up into the, hut and are used as leads, $87.00 making the ground connection

for the system.

$70.00

$360.00

The Wright station is a com- ponent part of the regular army radio net work, which covers not only the United States, but] foreign possessions, and ali POWERFUL 1. 5. STATION. naval vessels. It is possible to. One of the important factors in communicate with any point af the successful tests of the day- which the American flag flies, In consequence of the reduced and-night airmail service recently 'and receive a reply either direct prices of Marconi O-ram valves, was the work done by the governor by relay in a short time. The which came into force in England ment radio station at Wilbur only loss in time being that con- in August, the General Electric Wright Deld at Dayton.

sumed in translating messages,

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HEAD OFFICE & WORKS, YAUMATI, Tel. K. 32. HONGKONG DEPOT. 16, Stanley Street Tel. C. 1279.

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Why walk or pay car hire when you can have a car of your own on easy payments?

The following cars are in excellent condition

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ESSEXS

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BHRIMPE-Specimen No. 124:

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