RANDOM NOTES

Shannon News, 6 July 1928, Page 2

RANDOM NOTES

The American naval wireless stations handle ordinary commerciaf messages from American- ships in order to promote good working between the navy and mercantile marine in case of emergency.

The British Admiralty have now issued a new Order-in-Council providing for a payment of sd. for every ten words in commercial messages handled by naval ratings at certain coast stations.

The erection of a wireless station at Godhaven, Greenland, has resulted in a radio boom among the Esquimaux. It has recently be«n proposed that British public libraries should be equipped with wireless receivers so that the general public could attend radio lectures and educational talks. As no doctor lives upon the island, the inhabitants of Juan Fernandez (near Valparaiso) have installed wireless so that, if anyone should fall ill, the symptoms could be described by radio to, the Valparaiso doctors. A new material for panel has „ been put on the market by one of the big artificial silk manufacturers. Whether this will lead to advertisers describing their future panels as (l ladder proof” or whatever the term is used with the silk garments of the gentler sex is to be awaited with interest. More than 2500 homes are getting tadio entertainment over the telephone in Holland, simply by attaching an amplifier and loud speaker and paying £1 10s. a year. The system is owned and operated by the municipality. Dry cell B batteries will last longer if kept away from heaters. The life of the cell is decreased by the rise in. temperature, accompanying a location near, for example, a steam xadiatpr.