International Radio

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 23, 20 December 1929, Page 32

International Radio

’ GTATISTICS © published in U.S.A. show that there is one receiving set to every three houses over there. ‘This estimate, however, is criticised as presenting an incomplete picture, for it takes no account of the many people who almost live in thier motorcars during the summer and who accordingly keep their radio sets in the car. A summer camper says. that, judging by -his experience, there are more sets in camps than in the city block’. Women, it is said, buy between 75 and 80 per cent. of the receiving sets sold in America, and in consequence the outward appearance of .the set has become a etermining feature of the sale. _ A} set is sold as a piece of furniture rather than as an electrical machine. Cabinets are now designed in Tudor, Jacobean, Italian, Renaissance, and many other "periods," and are made from. walnut, Carpathian’ elm, American gumwood, in addition to the usual oak and mahogany, and sets are often specially made to harmonise with the decorative style of any. particular, room, GIR HUBERT WILKINS, famous explorer, who recently set out on an expedition to the Antarctic, has taken with him a short wave receiving set. The set is particularly designed to pick up the special weekly broadcasts from Westinghouse station, KDKA, to .the isolated dwellers of the Arctic Wl sub-Arctie regions. It is light, cdmpact, and simple to operate, and is sa designed that it may be readily carried in aeroplanes. Special arrangements have been made whereby the expedition will be kept informed of the events in the outside world, and station KDKA will transmit personal messages, weekly, from friends and relatives to its members free of charge.