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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1924.

RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.

The Increasing Utility Of Wireless.

There are comparatively few are constructed on the front of

**REFLEX" "RECEPTION. Germany may be credited with the original idea, but the wan's intervention left it for an Ameri- can to develop into what is con sidered one of the most important principles in the construction of modern radio receiving sets."

two or three in amplification.

directly for national purposes, racecourses for motor-car orcycle the apparatus. shows the amount for Great races in the world. For this kind Britain as 5,500,000, British of sport the main roads are used and as a general rule. A special race passessions £62,920,000

course for cars has, however, been foreign countrios, £48,500,000,

built at Grunewald, near Berlin, CONQUERINO THE WINDS. An air motor designed to move consisting of two parallel courses at about or vehicle directly against connected by groat curves

both ends." These courses are the wind has been invented byade of concrete, and the out

The American is William H. Charles R. Ford of Washington. side border of each is on a higher Prisas

and the principle It consists of a series of fans or level than the inger one.

The fin that of "*reflorTM Th windmills mounted on the same shaft and inclosed in a cylinder. construction has been chosen in radio reception, a name given by Between the fans are stationary order to eliminate skidding, per Priess himself. It is the method dangerous conseof reception by which one tube pieces of matal that Ford calls haps with

Air straighteners." These, the quences. Both very broad stripe can be made to do the work of inventor declares, so distribute the of conerete are separated from

More than ten years ago Gar- currents passing through the each other by an equally broad

man scientists had been working housing that each fan generates strip of lawn, which further ser

ves for collecting and draining on this system of reception. But the same amount of power.

the rainwater. On both sides of very little was heard of it because this long track stands are erected radio than was not popular.j whare thousands of spectators During the war, when it was observe the rares with the great essential to combat radio activity. est interest. At distances of Priess was put on the job. An several kilometres information important series of experiments tables have been installed which resulted in his discovery of the tell the spectators what happens system which he called "reflex, on the course. These tables consist of large iron frames on which smaller tables can be fastened. The smaller tables give the names of the manufacturer of the car, the drivers, the number of laps. the times, TC.

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ON DRY ROADS

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ried out dry reads)

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10

20 m.p.h.

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25 m.p.h.

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30 m.p.h. 8331

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35 mp.h. 113

Four wheel 10m.ph. 9#*

20 m.p.h. 27

25 m.p.b. 58

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Not only in its power but in its economy does Priess see the advantages of "reflex." He says:

"Reflor has advantages that are of tremendous value to broadcast users, due to the economy in tubes that result în of its the correct application

The detector tube principle. may be replaced by any type rect ifier-for example, crystal-and the amplifier tubes may be made to do double or triple duty as amplifiers The crystal used in this manner is a perfect means of changing radio currents to audio and is always better than a tube detector."

NOTHING OMITTED.

Every conceivable form of edu cation and entertainment can be enjoyed from listening inon a radio** receiving set A review of pre- grammes planned by some of the larger broadcasting stations con- firms this.

la & recent week these are some of the subjects covered by one broadcasting station out of the New York district:

Now, it is of great value to give these times over the whole extent of the course as quickly as possible, and in such a way as to enable cach spectator to know always what is going on at other parts of the course, and especiaels the places of the competing mo tors, their chances, etc. It is clear that this can be done in no better way than by radio, and therefore during recent races a From the time peace was de- wireless trial service has beenclared in 1918, Priess devoted his installed which it is to be hoped entire energy to the development will soon be made permanent. of reflex It is his belief reflex] On the umpire's stand, where has not been approached by any' times are stated and noted. a set employing the same number transmitter and an atenna broad- of tubes for the two characteris- cast the results by radio-tele-tics of radio telephone reception; phony. These results were taken namely, sensitivity and distance. up by receivers installed in small cabins beneath the information tables. A special system of tele- phony was chosen to enable the officials working in the cabins to receive and to transmit time and observations from and to the um- pire's stand. The official receiv- ing the results in the head- phones wrote them down on single slips of paper, and the man standing on the roof of the cabin

New York Philharmonic coa- made the necessary arrange- ments on the information table.

cert, special religious "Chanukah As for the apparatus used, the Service" celebrating a Jewish racing course being situated far boliday, travel lectures, a talk by from any electric supply, it was William Jennings Bryan, quartet, necessary to produce the current duet and solo music, business by a special arrangement. This talks. children's stories, readings, consisted of a small gasoline joint recitals, farm, market and motor connected with a small stock reports daily, sports avents. Lorenz charging machine. de- fashion talks, time signals and signed to convert alternating, weather forecasts daily, humor, three-phase. and also con- current events, book review, tea at 430. dance music. tinuous currents Of

the music usual voltages into continuous church services and Bible classes currents of lower voltage every Sunday.

"That is not all Every now and for charging accumulators, and generally, also, as motor for then a station announces the driving high-tension generators. broadcasting of an entire play by its actors. Everything but the In designing this machine a universal oile has been created action gues over, and even that is! that can be used first as motor explained sufficiently to make the

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production a success. valve Now efforts are being made currents. required by transmitters. and secondly for further to develop radio, even to charging the accumulators broadcasting movies. And a few necessary for filament current, years more may see the broad- etc. In the case of the racing casting of action itself, so that! installation an alternating listecers may not only hear, but current of 500 cycles was trans- see an entire production while formed into continuous current sitting at their radio sets of 600 volts. The filament current home. was taken from a storage battery, and had a pressure of 12 volts.

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receiving

For this apparatus aerials should be used with a capacity

OPENING OF LETTERS. The practice of the Post Office

of about 400 to 800 cm. If medium opening letters in cases where aerials are used, the range

persons are suspected of crime,

of the apparatus amounts as happened in the drug case to 200 kilometres for telegraphy recently before the Court, is and up to 60 kilometres for questioned. An official of the telephony, provided that a, 10 or Post Office states that in no case a 20-watt transmitting valve isfare letters opened or otherwise tampered with by the Post office! vised.

without a specific order from the

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