STRAY SPARKS

Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 4

STRAY SPARKS

Valuing B Stations. Last week the two officials appointed by the Minister of Broadcasting commenced their worlk of valuing the three Auckland B stations. The Prime Minister (the Right Hon. M. J. Savage) stated that it was the Government’s purpose to buy all B statipns if possible, but if not the Government would subsidise them on the basis of a valuation that would have to be agreed upon. Illegal Propaganda. Viennese police are having some trouble with an unlicensed short wave transmitter whicii puts out from time to time illegal propaganda for an illegal political party. Their efforts to trace the illegal station are hampered by practical jokers, who set their receivers into oscillation, put a telephone type microphone in series with the aerial, and send out horrifying messages. The police are said to be considering banning reaction receivers. Complicated Telephone. A New York doctors’ telephone service is proposing to the Federal Communication Commission of America a scheme for a doctors’ radio-paging service, so that, if a call came for a doctor five minutes after he had left to answer another call, the central service could get in touch with the doctor’s car radio, using code sign for that particular doctor, to which tho doctor could respond by starting a buzzer and lighting a pilot lamp. It would be good fun for the doctor, anyway. Appointment in India. The 8.8. C. announces that Mr C, W. Goyder, late of the 8.8. C. Research Department, left England by air for India, where he is taking up the position of chief engineer of All-India Radio. Russia is to install 70,000 now receivers this year. Suggestions include “ tele-seer ” tor one who sees the television programme, t: tele-viewer ” for the receiver set, and “ tele-visor ” for the apparatus at the studio »e<L