Radio News from All Angles

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 42, 2 May 1930, Page 3

Radio News from All Angles

[ONG-SUFFERING wireless dealers in Kitchener, Ontario, have risen in self-defence against the habit of free home demonstrations. They are considering charging a fee for the use of receiving sets for "demonstration" purposes, because, they say, they have found people with as many as nine sets in one house, and other cases where, by going the rounds of the city dealers, a family contrives to have a_ set throughout the winter at no expense to themselves. Huge.capital necessary to buy machines enough for "demonstration" purposes and, still have a stock on hand, difficulty in selling a bona fide purchaser a new set because of its long use by pretending pulchasers, and the danger of spreading disease through the transfer of machines from house to house are points upon which they are basing complaints. VY OLUNTEERING the information that he had failed to obtain a radio license, a Canadian magistrate, at Hamilton, Ontario, after imposing several five-dollar fines on delinquents, instructed an inspector to proceed in his:own (the magistrate’s) case, sand ‘the magistrate registered a conviction against himself and paid five dollars into court. Explaining that he had forgotten to renew his: license, Magistrate Burbidge said the present system of collection is all wrong, no notification being given when licenses expire. ‘He offered to wager that he could find over a hundred receiving sets operating without licenses.

THE Berlin police, in conjunction with post office officials, are endeavouring to track down the source of certain mysterious transmissions which take place almost every eyenine from a plant located within a 20mile radius of Berlin. The station broadcasts Soviet propaganda in the German language, interspersed with concerts of "Labour Songs" or of works in honour of one of the leaders, among the latter being an "Ode to Lenin," a "Lenin Symphony" and a ‘Hymn in Honour of Lenin." During each programme the wish is expressed that any remarks with regard to the broadcast should be sent to the "Palace of Labour" at Moscow. ‘The location of the station is cgmplicated by the fact that it appears to change its position almost every night, the transmitter being apparently a portable one. nel