Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

Radio in Other Lands

APMOST regularly once a year, France endeavours to bring herself level with other countries in the matter of broadcasting, by an attempt to reorganise her entire radio system. A new Bill, which will be discussed early in 1980, calls for two high-power low-frequency stations, capable of being received over the whole of Europe; ten smaller transmitters to maintain an efficient service to the country ; and, finally, a number of relay stations for regional purposes. The’ entire organisation is to be under control of the State. SOMETHIN G new in the development of radiovision is an apparatus designed to transmit-aeroplane views of panoramic scenes to a ground receiving station. This equipment is under construction’ at Washington, and its inventor hopes to test it shortly in a special ’plane. The "aerial radiovision eye" will record the visual scenes by means of a scanning disc, light-sensitive -eell, and broadcasting apparatus, and the panoramas will be received on a standard -radiovision receiving set. It is believed that the invention would be of great value in time of war, as the general headquarters of an army, though situated perhaps miles behind the front line, would have a continuous aerial view of all operations. "THE theft of portable sets from Hnglish wireless factories is becoming a somewhat common practice, states. "Wireless World." The sets are often offered on an alleged hire-purchase system to an unsuspecting buyer, whois asked to pay a deposit, which, he is told, entitles him to retain the receiver for three months, He is led to believe . that after this period has elapsed the . first of ten monthly instalments for the | balance will be collected. Needless to say, the thief never calls again for this, and the purchaser is left with a stolen | receiver on his hands. {2 is intended to install an "inverter" at the experimental short-wave station, near St. Cyr, in France. The object of this apparatus is to prevent telephone messages being picked up by promiscuous listeners, and this result is achieved by inverting the frequencies of the speech sounds so that high notes — become correspondingly low and low ones high. A specially-designed receiving equipment reconverts the frequencies to normal. Wireless eavesdroppers, therefore, who may chance to pick it up will probably think they have logged a Chinese station: broadeasting political speeches. .

This article text was automatically generated and may include errors. View the full page to see article in its original form.I whakaputaina aunoatia ēnei kuputuhi tuhinga, e kitea ai pea ētahi hapa i roto. Tirohia te whārangi katoa kia kitea te āhuatanga taketake o te tuhinga.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/RADREC19291025.2.37

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 15, 25 October 1929, Page 15

Word count
Tapeke kupu
386

Radio in Other Lands Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 15, 25 October 1929, Page 15

Radio in Other Lands Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 15, 25 October 1929, Page 15

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert