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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

The Famous GARNER

GARNER" British-built truck-chassis and passenger-bus.

The S.S. "Telamon arriving on the 6th. July, will bring us a consignment of 2 of the famous

·British-built GARNER" 2-ton

equipped with pneumatic tyres,

and

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1924.

RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.

High Frequency and Surgery,

Have you been troubled of lato, we are continually tap-twiddling, jby a strango, wild, bûzz-żaw sort or faced with an array of loosÚ of static? asks a writer to on wires and an instrument that American radio servico.

looks like a miniature power-

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Well, don't unwind your vari- station.

omoter on that recount or broad- It is an excellent plan to

cast cursos at the atmosphors, remove the source of the tonipt-

The cause may be one of the now ation, and have the instrument radio-therms, a boon to surgeons itself in a different room con- The

truck-chassis, and a balm to the sick, which venient for another reason.

makus tho science not only a aerial and earth-leads are not an commercial and entertainment ornament to any one's sitting- marvol but a promise of almost room or drawing room, whereas magic healing.

a. miniature plug for the loud Dr. Louis E. Schmidt of Chlon- spoakor loads causes

no dis- go is one of the first surgeons to figuramant.

The ideal broadcast racalvor has boon pronounced a success, should have reaction control radiotherm is simply an which makes it practically im-

The S.S. "Glensheil" arriving on the 24th. July, put the device into practius. It will also bring one 24-passenger British-built English pattern, complete with body and equipped with pneumatic tyres.

Bus.lectric knife. The pationt lies possible to cause the instrument

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Before buying see us about the GARNER” truck-chassis and buses.

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upon a metal pad which connoots to break into oscillation. This is also with the source of electricity in not altogether a question of the Bizo. of the reaction enll. Tho

the instrument.

The knife is moroly a contact detector valve must-have just the point, attached by wire to the right H.T., L.T., and grid lenk Samo strument. When it is values. If these are correctly can bc

famous touched to the patient's flesh, a adjusted the reaction

circuit for the current is complet-brought into play in a delight od, heat is created by the resist fully smooth manner, and when ance of the body and the incision withdrawn the affect will cease is made by burning.

n exactly the same place as it Reaction which

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Radio enters in the devolop commenced. mont of the current. Originally goos in and out with a good the electricity is drawn from an plop" is a source of constant it in squito ordinary lamp socket. That cur- irritation. rant, however, is not of sufficient impossible to obtain anything signal strength. frequency to develop the required like Tull

STATION. heat.

Between the intake socket and In the ordinary sized living- the knife point there are placed | room comparatively little strength two tubes, similar in appearance is required from the loud speaker, musie. and and function to the vacuum tubes and provided the of a broadcasting station. The spacch can be clearly heard curront here is stepped up to a without any strain, the less the frequency of nearly 2,000,000 volume the more pleasant bo- oscillations second. For comes the entertainmont, broadcasting purposes, the fre On at least four nights out of quency is only about 40,000. the week reception from distances The great merit of the new of over one hundred miles is

by radio knife is that It makes vir-spoilt atmospheric intor-1

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A PATIENT WITH THE RADIO KNIFE, LOWER PROTO, "THE HIGH-FREQUENCY SET.

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as after any other known incision, a 'ways just present and audible! But while one of the new de: as a background to the entertain- vices is in operation, there's a mont. It is therefore woll to by the echoing walls or culling.all is well with one's own re- fourful disturbance in the atmos-concentrato particularly on ob These sory undesirable echoosestver. This is not difficult, as. phore. The tubas sending out to taing perfect results from the have the offect of making spooch in such a case the always present the knifepoint a current of nearly nearost B. B. C. station. As oach from loudspeaker almost slight atmosphoric disturbances 3,000,000 oscillations a second have station varies a little in its pitch unreadablo owing to the wooll will also disappear.. no rogard for jazz, band concerts, and modulation from the others. iness and mulling effect.

In any case, the carrier wave. news bulletins and bedtime much interesting 'experimental

work can be done on this point. It is a most desirable plan to of the transmitting station can

The That's the cause of the new

loud aponker cases the writer has been able to!

always use two loud speakers if possible, nearly always be heard whilst test double circuite against] "static" 'you may be hearing. sounds bettor if the mouth of the one for tuning-in in the room prosent as a slight bum or hiss. straight circuits employing a

trumpet a slightly above the where the instrument is, and one The writer linds no difficulty in the calibrating an Instrument on the similar number of valves or an LOUD SPEAKERS. hands of the listeners. The for actual reception - In equal oxpenditure on component

writer is of the opinior-that we sitting-room or drawing-room. various stations without hearing parts, and so far the straight cir

shall eventually have, loud Those loud speakers should single word spoken from any Their Use and Abuse. cuits have always won on points,

speakers which are so designed be of exactly the same size and one of them, provided their car to type, so that a proper control is riors are prosent, and this with- taking into consideration tone, So many of us who are wireless that they respond readily BOLTS, NUTS, RIVETS, DOG SPIKES, FORGINGS, Etc... Holectivity, range and prico. Ho enthusiasts are apt to forget that the frequencies of spooch and assured. They may be connect-out bringing the reaction any would, however, be the last to the reception of broadcasting, if musical notes, but are compara-ed in serios by means of soif- where noar oscillation point and Buggost that these circuits are not carried out the proper tively-deaf to the atmospheric shorting plugs. These plugs are bo certainly does not claim this a mast important development; manner,

oan be

nover sounde which provo ao diangroo-so arranged that when one lond a difficult foot by any inoans, and it is within the resting of ending delight to people who able an accompaniment. This speaker is cut out by removing provided that the detector valvo Possibility that design may have not the slightest technical problem will probably be solved, the plug the break in the circuit le correctly adjusta eventually tend that way, interest in wireless itsolf. To or partially solved, by audio is automatically made, and then gonoral conclusion tho writor Striking a personal noto, the theso listeners the "howi of a frequency filters and loud speaker other speaker continues to work, can only state that perfection of writer has the privilege to be con- station being badly tuned in, or design, as their elimination at Where two 2,000 ohm loud rosulte can only be obtained by stantly amongst the B.B.C. staff, a raucous loud speakor is a horror radio-frequency: sooms almost speakers are used in this manner the utmost care to seemingly un- and nowhere elso has he found which completely spoils the even incapable of solution in the light the increase of strength by cutt- important details.

Amongst the most important of such a body of painstaking, hard-ing's entertaimont, says a con- of present knowledge. In some ing one out is not vory noticeablo.

experimental work carried out of By this moans any noisy" those, the writer would draw bis working onthusiasts. The protributor to Popular Wiglés. gress in the quality and effective. The loss they can see of the this point, the writer has found tuning may be done without readers attention to H.T. bat noss of the transmissions has instrument itself and the less it possible to reduce the apparent offending listeners in the other terlee, accumulators, good con- been a miracle, If we listeners obtrusivo the loud speaker, the interference from thie source room. can get.anywhere near catching greater is the illusion, and, hér some 30 or 40 per cont... and thie them up we shall do remarkably all, broadcast reception is by way idea is now embodied in one make

of broadcast recoivors

m well. We are all working for a of an illusion. common ond, the perfection of When wo listen to the Savoy In the case of a large hall in It is usual in the case of a components and accessories; entertainment by wireless, and Orphoans we want to get the real which had achicos or hollowness microphone circuit breakdown In spite of the popularity of with over half a million people all atmosphere of the ballroom is present, much can be done by at the station to hear the other some of the new double ofronite, striving to a common end, I think Whon wo listen to a broadcast placing the loud speakers so that rent by listeners howls, trying for, general use the writer has yet we may safely say we shall got play we want to be able to the sound is thrown down on-the to tuns in sposob which is not there, and that at no very lar imaging the actors and scenery, heads of the audience and broken thoro. It is useful to cultivate to be convinced that the air

and this wo un nevor do if up, instead of being thrown back the recognition of the sounds that

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