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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1925. (FEATURE SECTION),

RADIO NOTES AND NEWS Second World's Fair Dates Selected.

The definito dates for the trivance, according to the invon- Kinds Bend Radio World's Fair which In 10 take place in New York Chy next autumn. were an- noord by Directors James F. Kerr and U.J, Herrmann at

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conditions therefore were con- siderably annoying, yet the sot. | brought in signals from KGO 80 that they could be easily road on earphones.

This tost was made following

for. will broadcast refrizeration determination on the part of exactly the same as our present authorities to employ radio, as a day radio stations broadcoast safety device for minors. musical programmer. He claims Only a few hundred yards from that his special receivers, which the Kennedy mine, where this Chicago last month. Both are can be installed cheaply in exporimont was made. is the in that city completing arrange-ordinary cooling recopticles, will Argonaut mine, where 47 miners menie for the Fourth Annual entirely eliminate the precarity lost their lives in an explosion in Chicago Radio Show, which is of ice or modern refrigerating August, 1922. Since this scoldont also one of their enterprises. machinery. All the housewife investigators have boon trying to This year's great international of the Futuro will have to and a devico that would keep wireless exposition will open on do, if what tho inventor entombad mon in communication Monday noon, Sertember 14th and says is true, will be to keep with the outside world, despite continue until Saturday night, ber refrigeration recaiver tuned broken wires September 19th. It will be held in with a cunttal Fending pannage.. in the enormous 258th Field Artil- | station which; in all probability, lery Armory, which is located at will be installed and operated by Kingsbridge Road and Jerome the municipality in which sho Avenue, and which is the largest resides. According to the Inven- building of its kind in America. tor, households can be supplied with radio-refrigoration of altmoet any intensity for less, than Fifty Conta por year.

The Radio World's Fair of 1925❘ will outshine the huge exposition held in Madison Square Garden and the 69th Regiment Armory, |last September, in almost every respect. This year's show will bo at least one third larger. It will occupy 181,000 square feet of floor spice. horo will be ela- hurate displays by 325 radio manufacturers, including 60 of the best known wireless concerna of Europe South America and (The Drient, which is almost opa hu dred marn than participanted in the 1994 Fair. Fourteen dif torant farei zn, omantries will havo. exhibits of an official varioty.

The big armoury was reluated by Messrs Herrmann and Kerr bo. canso of the fact that the entire exption can be staged on the main floor, which is right on the street level. The patrona will not have to climb stairs, uso elevators or go from one building to another, and General Manugor. Kerr states that this feature will eave several hours' time for every visitor who wishes to make a careful study of the exhibits. The gigantic auditorium, which does not contain a single pillar, mensuras 300 feet by 600 fost.

Recognized authorities on such mattora estimate tint the at- tondanco this your will run close to a quarter of a suillion people, i while some experta are of the opinion that it will roneh three hundrod thoueand. Nearly four thousand men and women will ho employed as attendants by the Exposition Management and the Fxhibitors and the collectivn value of apparatus on display will be approximately $10,000,- 000 00, just about twice that of the 1924 show.

REMARKABLE DEMONSTRATIONS. Among tho principal 1925 features will be the first public demonstration of a complete system for the transmission and reception of light, heat and power by Radio, which is now being parfect ad in a large Eastern laboratory.

Another will be an astounding

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SAFETY FOR WHALERS. Whaling ships in the North Son will find roving the deep as nafo 18 staying on land; bereaftor. Details of a dozen other start-Each ship is equipped with a line disenverins to be introduced Marconi direction fiuder, so it can in "Tho Now Inventions Section" locate the other ship and the coast will be made known as soon as ilno in fug or darkness.

RADIO'S WANDERING MINSTREL,

Nate Coldwell, known throughout Americs as the "Joy Diggor," is the wandoring minstrol of radio, He has hoon travailing from one broadcasting station to another, dning his bit with voice, piano and banjo, and going on. In the last six months he calculates ho bas travelled moro than 5,000 miles.

they are officially accepted by the Fair Directors.

The dates of the Fourth Annual will be Chicago Radio Show selected and announced shortly. The local exposition will be of exactly the same magnitude as the Second Radio World's Fair.

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A loop set can be made more sonsitive if three turns of fairly hoavy wire are wound on the frame of the loop inside the loop proper. These should be from one to three inches from the loop winding. To the ends of this winding attach the aerial and ground loads, thus forming an untuned antenna circuit.

Noisy last stage of audio fro- quency amplification can be im- proved if a Daven rosisto-coupler is aubstituted for the faulty transformer. As the terminals of this resisto-coupler aro idon-i tical with those on the trans- former, the change can be made in three minuten.

Wharo & water pipo is not available, you can mace a good ground by attaching tho ground wire to 12 or 15 carbon sticks taken from old dry cells and burying them in the ground.

An exoellent reamer can be mado by filing the converging edges of a scrow driver to Boissor odges and finishing with an oil stone.

Protect soldered joints in the antenna by wrapping them in infoil and then a layer of water- proof tape.

Pattern makers white pino makes excellent radio sot base- boards." It is 08oned and rather tough.

HEARD UNDERGROUND.

At Depth of 4,200 feet. Jackson, Calif: The record for underground reception was attained here when a receiving ret brought in station KGO at Oakland, while 4200 fost bolow the earths' surface.

"Tho dot was taken into the Kennedy gold mine hero and a loop was set up. It was 42 de- Frees at the surface and 80 where the set was loonted. Atmospherio}

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The thin, white, silky Lur flakes, which are made by our own exclusive process, dissolve instantly no s bubbling lather that is as harmless as pure water itself. The lather gently squeezed through the fine febrica. quickly loosens the dirt and a lew rinsings make the Carments beautifully clean.

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