Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 54, 25 July 1930, Unnumbered Page

Radio Round the World

[HE broadeasting station at. Moscow transmits propaganda lectures in’ ‘German twice weekly, stressing the advantages of the Soviet system of Government. . % .* * A COMMITTED has been formed ‘at’ Hindhoven, Holland, to consider the proposal of the erection of a monument in that city to commemorate ‘the invention of wireless telephony. e- = * A LOS ANGBHLES housewife has attached a pair of headphones to a cable so long that she can move anywhere in her bungalow without missing a minute of the local station’s programme. # &

"THE experimént of broadcasting offers of employment from the Tokio station is proving eminently satisfactory. Since September last this Japanese station has regularly broadcast information regarding the labour market, with details of sitnations vacant. . . % & ~ ‘A PUNISHMENT which appears to be out of all proportion to the crime has been imposed on an Huglishman residing at Leavenworth, Kansas. For operating an unlicensed wireless transmitter he hag been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, to be followed by deportation as an "undesirable alien." = | R ge ADIO is rapidly assuming an in- . creasing importance as a safety factor in German aviation. Ali multiengined aeroplanes, and even a large number of single-engined ’planes, carry & small transmitting and receiving plant, There are now fifty-six German stations exclusively used for aviation purposes, while in 1926 there were only eight. e : x {ERR SLISKOVIC, an Austrian scientist, recently demonstrated before a public audience, consisting largely of wireless experts, a2 new system of television developed by himself. It is reported that his apparatus reveals several distinct advantages over the Baird television system at present operating in Wngland. * bs *

‘A PROMINENT English sportsman has recently purchased a threeengined Supermarine metal monoplane flying-boat, which has a cruising speed of 100 mp.h., and can carry a crew _ of three and six passengers. The wireless installation consists of a half-kilo-watt transmitter, with a range of 400 miles, for telegraphy and telephony ;

a direction-finder, and. two receivers; one for "broadcast." There are THY. aerials, oné a trailer, for use in flighi, the other being fixed bétween the wings. The complete installation corresponds in power and range to the normal installation on’a:ship of 5000 tons. eo oe oe : [* an address before four thousand delegates at the National Music Supervisors’ Conference at Chicago recently,’ Walter. Damrosch, dean of American orchestra conductors, stressed the value of radio in extending avpreciation of music. It will soon be possible, he said, for 27,000,000 school children throughout America to listen to symphony orchestras. & % *

tz is now possible for the great majority of telephone subscribers in Australia to speak to 4,000,000. telephone subscribers in Great Britain, and |. to the majority of. subscribers in 14 Huropean countries. The next exten t sion in radio telephony will be between ™: = Australia and New Zealand. When this is completed the Australian stations will possibly be used to give telephonic connection between New Zealand and Great Britain, g % ® A STRIKING contrast of the old and the new was afforded at the thirteenth International Mucharistie Congress held recently at Carthage. In the very ruins of the amphitheatre of Carthage, where so. many Chiistians suffered martyrdom, were located a number of microphones to pick up and broadcast the delegates’ speeches. * a Bd HE huge German motor liners Bre- ~ men and Huropa, which are on the trans-Atlantic run, have the most extensive wireless systems of any uprchant vessel afloat. Their equipment permits permanent use of _three lines of duplex, which means that messages can be sent as well as received on all three. simultaneously. The transmitters do not affect the receivers, although they are installed directly | alongside them in the same rooms, and the aerials are fastened to the same . masts. Six radio operators afte fréquired to ‘work the equipment. . % &

IRELESS broadcasting is certainly not so successful and so popular in France as it is in other countries in the world. To begin with, rahked by: power of stations, France is about the thirtieth on the list. Again, Britain’s total wireless power is more than twenty times greater .than that of France, while the radio exports. from the former country is nine times tliat of the latter.