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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
INCREASE OF RAILWAY RATES.
Great Struggle Anticipated.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,
LOCAL RADIO NOTES.
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Tangible evidence that radio | Societies in the Orient could də The time tixed by the Railway Rates Tribunal for lodging has really come to Hongkong was far more useful work than advis objections against the proposed manifested during the week when ing Governments. For instance, increase of railway charges ex-passers-by and the cecupants of if the Hongkong. Radio Society Voeur would seriously take up real pired on 15th October, and nearly nearby offices in Des
Road Central were surprised to amateur work, get into touch 2,000 objections have been
with men like Scort-Taggart of lodged, representing every class hear very loud music and a of the community, including much amplified rcice calling London, Milton Sleeper of New trade associations, railway pasHello, Everybody issuing from York, and the Pacific Coast radio Enquiry engineers-all of whom are will- Alexandra Building. senger asociations, private firms, showed it to be some testing being ing to give their time and advice county and district councils, anddons from Kowloon by the Radio -we might get something ac- hundreds of individuals, says a [Communication Co In London,complished in trans-Pacific radio London message.
tests. I venture to predict that the accomplishment of some real experimenting by the Society would add dozens of members to its ranks
and
New York and, other big cities Some of the most eminent radio loud-speakers are every- barristers have been briefed where, and one frequently sets by the railway companies groups of people standing round
the objectors. and
listening to aa shop entrance special corps of shorthand writers the broadessting from some has been engaged to take distant city. The time is not verbatim report of the proceed far distant when we in Hong ings before the tribunal. The kong will be able, while buy date of the sitting is still not ling Our cigarettes or sipping axed.
ourtes in the lounges or looking over a display of Christmas cards The coming fight represents to listen-in to the orchestra atmade counterpoise which takes in the greatest financial case over the Carlton in Shanghai, or to submitted to any tribunal, as the dance-music from the mail £90,000,000 annually is involved.steamers out on the Pacific.
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Which brings me to the subject of distance in radio. "How far can I hear on this set?" is a very frequent question from the man inexperienced apparatus. Strange as it may seem, just as it does not recognise any obstacles, radio laughs at distance. Which means to say that radio waves issuing from a transmitting-station travel into infinity. One hears that such-snd-such a station WLS heard two hundred or two thou- sand miles away: this merely means that the apparatus at our disposal to-day makes the radio- waves from those stations trans- latable or audible to the human ear at that given distance.
The greatest feat in distance in radio-telephony to date was the successful transmission of music. on three successive evenings, | from a 50-watt set in the suburbs of Chicago, to a listener-in at In- vercargill, New Zealand, a dis- tance as the crow Bies, of 9,600 miles. The successful reception of music sent out from Los Angeles in New Zealand and Australia is now almost an everyday occur. rence, as the records of the radio societies in the Antipodes show.
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So that distance is not the most
After some days of silence. the Hongkong Hotel is "on the air" again with its 100-watt. transmitter. HOW using as a grounding system a specially
some of the metal construction of the building. The radiation meter. it is said, bas noW attained 316-amperes, which is sufficient, with good modulation. to
make their broadcasting heard a considerable distance. The counterpoise methods of securing a suitable earth for transmission sets'seems to be in favour in Hongkong. The Radio Communication Co. using a counterpoise at the Kow. toon Hotel. On their 5-watt set, heavy cable leading with a
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straight to galvanized iron sheets buried in the earth, three-tenths of an ampere was all the current) that could be forced into thei antenna But with a wire counter poise on the roof stretched direct-! ly beneath the antenna, they have sitsined one and three-tenths amperes. I understand thes normally transmit with nine- tenths of an ampere.
and
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The schools in Sheffield. Eng- land. have begun to teachi foreign languages with the aid of the radio telephone. Special programmes have been broadcast from a French radio station for the benefit of the Sheffield educators, the matter transmitted consisting of French prose and poetry. The students listened to the programme in their school rooms. So successful was! the experiment that it is hoped to secure similar co-operation with serious problem radio engineers radio broadcasters in Germany, have to contend with. To talk Italy
Spain, 4 from San Francisco to Hongkong | as broadcasting has been by voice and back again sufficiently well developed in could be accomplished to-day those countries. European if sufficient money were spent educators now view radio is a
at each tremendous force in the teaching| But the big radio com-of languages. Here is a chance panies are concentrating their for the Hongkong Government efforts on making radio pay. as to make itself a power in China they experiment in improving by being the first in the field apparatus and making wireless with language lessons by radio, communication cheap and simple When it does decide what is enough for everybody's pocket. definitely going to be done about jus: as the ordinary telephone is broadcasting in the Colony, this to-day.
Government can secure great advantage from it if it will be guided by men who have watched radio grow in other countries.
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In the old days of the China atrade between Salem and Hong- teacup
hazard ncar the green. He kong a Yankee sent a
said
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notices several twigs on the green out to the Orient with crders to THE HUMAN ZOO which are in a direct line with have da entire disner Fet made ball and the cup. Has the player from its design. The set came the right to remove these twigs back, each piece with a crack in from the green, even though his it. The Yankee protested. In ball is not on the green?
due season he learned that the Answer: Player has a perfect original teacup which he sent as right to remove the twigs from a model had had & crack in it and the green even though his ball is the literally. minded Orientals in a nearby hazard. It is not had reproduced it faithfully. necessary that a player's ball beThe Peking Parliament is just on the green in order to give him now in session. In consequence the right to remove loose impedi- of recent, political upheavals ment from the green. The twigs they are holding elections for President. It is a body of should be removed by band.
several hundred members, and re- Question: When is a player port has it that some of them are to have baen Jaid B holding out for as high as stymie? A claims that $10,000 for their votes. The player can never ask bis oppon-charitable view is that they are ent to lift his ball if said ball is entitled to what they can get on a direct line with the putt. B
because official salaries are years claims there is a certain condition
in arrears. On a conservative | that can exist which erases what estimate there are thought to be appears to be a stymie. Please about 200 honest members whose explain a stymie in detail.
votes cannot be bought. Answer: A player is said to Perhaps we had better waive have been laid a stymie if on the the question whether, on the putting green his opponent's ball whole, this average is better or lies in the line of his patt to the worse than that of corresponding hole, provided the balls be not legislative bodies in the United within six inches of each other. States. But the obvious con- B is correct in his contention. If clusion is that when Aristica sot the balls he within six inches of out to copy the political-institu each other on the putting green tions of the Occident they do no the ball nearer the hole may, at with a Htezal fidelity that is often the option of either the player or painful. They even copy the opponent be lifted until the other crack in the tancirp. Bostno
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