RADIO REVIEW

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 74, 22 November 1940, Page 45

RADIO REVIEW

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Radio Mass It has been reported that, prior to the French capitulation, soldiers on the Maginot Line listened to a French priest saying Mass in a chapel at a French radio station. The priest, Father Falaize, made the experimental broadcast because 500 priests had been mobilised and numbers of sick people weré without their visiting clergy. Thus the soldiers became part of his congregation. The Home Front The Nuffield Trust has provided portable wireless sets for anti-aircraft and searchlight detachments on duty in remote areas where there is no entertainment. Another German Expert Dies The death of Count Von Arco was noted in this column a short time ago. It has now been reported that Dr. Paul Nipkow died in a Berlin hospital on August 24. He reached the age of 80 two days earlier. Dr. Nipkow was the inventor of the "Nipkow disc" used in television until the Cathode tube became popular with television experimenters. He had secured a patent on his "electrical telescope " in 1884, but lost it through financial inability to extend it. Others cashed in on the idea. Dr. Nipkow received recognition only six years ago when he became President of the newly organised German Television Society. Colour Television The day has been awaited when the broadcasting of images in colour would be announced. It has remained for Columbia Broadcasting System and their television expert, Dr. Peter Goldmark, to demonstrate colour television, says " Radio and Television." . The first test was made to a select audience, including James L. Fly, Chairman of the F.C.C., who said he was tremendously interested in the new system and that its basic simplicity indicates its practical possibilities. The conventional 6 mc. television channel is employed and existing receivers do not need to be radically changed to adapt them to three colours instead of black and white. A Special KZRH "The Voice of the Philippines in Manila under the American Flag" is broadcasting a special programme to North America every day from 4 to 5 a.m. on 11.89 me. 50,000 Dollar Radio The finest and most comprehensive radio equipment ever installed on an American liner has been put aboard the s.s. America. The installation comprises 8 transmitters, 8 receivers, a radio compass, a radio auto-alarm, and the necessary associated equipment. The ship can be in telegraphic or voice communication with all important cities of the world, as well as other ships at all times. The radio room is in charge of five radio officers. Counting the two lifeboat antennz there are thirteen aerials aboard. The complete equipment weighed more than ten tons, 442 of which were made up éf ypecial high voltage cable.