Radio in Other Lands

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 24, 27 December 1929, Page 12

Radio in Other Lands

(THE value of wireless has rarely been exemplified better than in the case of the aeroplane Southern Cross which | landed at Croydon on July 10, having flown from Australia in under thirteen days. Oaptain Kingsford Smith and his three companions thus beat the record: of Mr. Bert Hinkler for a flight between England and Australia’ by more than two days, though it must be remembered that the Southern Cross is of much higher power than Mr. Hinkler’s little Avian. By means of the , wireless equipment on board, the oper-’ ator,, Mr. McWilliams, was able to receive messages throughout the flight. The receiver used covered 2 waverange of 18 to 2700 metres.

[HE entire, population of Sing Sing Prison, New York, can listen to radio programmes through an installation which was designed by one of the prison’s inmates who was an electrical expert before entering the prison. The system connects more than 2000 heailphones and twenty-one loudspeakers with a central radio receiving set. The programmes dre tuned in on this set, and ali inmates listen to the same broadeasting. Although the prison covers several square miles and comprises scores of buildings, the quality and volume of reproduction is reporky ed to he remarkably good. X