Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 17, 7 November 1930, Unnumbered Page

Radio Round the World

Wavelets F{NGLISH stations broadcast this season a series of open-air coneerts from the Queen’s Hall, the. first being transmitted on August 9. Caleutta now owns a short-waye transinitter which works on ° 25.36 metres, Station WGY, Schenectady (U.S.A.) actually works on 500 kilowatts. In America receivers in rustic or antique cabinets are the vogue. The Vatican station has to work on two wavelengths, 50.26 and 18.84 metres. The power of the Koenigswusterhausen station was raised to 60 kw. in the- summer. The British Broadcasting Company has, formed an orchestra of 112 musicians, who gave their first performance on October 9. Sixty-eight schools, colleges and universities in America have trans: mitters. The National Radio Exhibition in’ Scotland will be held in Bdinburgh in November. In America the law imposes a fine of a little over £1 and five years in prison for sending out false SOS signals. The National Broadcasting Co. of America has 73 stations which operate in conjunction with short-wave stations. The Coltmbia chitin has 71. The first International Congress of television, organised by the Internation Institute of Brussels, will take place in July, 1931. * % z SIX per cent. tax is charged on all valves and radio apparatus sold in Belgium. Hither the constructor or the importer must meet this obli- _ gation and the money is paid to the National Institute of Broadcasting. ge = 8 A MICHIGAN orchardist is keeping destructive birds away by the use of a scarecrow and radio loudspeaker combination, the latter being connected to. the radio set in the house. As long as it does the work, the owner says, he does not care whether he gets static or advertising. it foo 1 BS 1931 there will be held in Madrid a Convention ‘of radio-telegraph-ists. his has been the first official conference since that in Washington in 1927, and it will discuss many iinportant -problems concerning international radio telegraphy. Undoubtedly Russia will send representatives to this convention. An unofficial one is being held this year in Copenhagen. " Dd « A, SHORET station has been discovered in the French town of Metz, This transmitter goes on the aix every.

day at 12 o’clock-and’ broadeasts local and general news"followed with literary or ‘sciéntifié selections: Once for example it presented the geograpig. 71 history of the valley of the seems that althbugh attempts have been made to locate this Station, they. have so far failed. t Gas ‘ A ROUMANIAN Hxpedition left for the Arctic regions on July 1 last. In order to maintain communication with Hurope a 200 watt transmitter operating on 23 and 40 metres and a 75 watt communication outfit for amateurs, as well as another of the same power. operating on 65 metres for aviation purposes weré carried. It‘ is "interesting ‘to note how modern ¢xpeditions inté these remote parts thoroughly equip themselves with radio. ae * ae zs A: BPUROPHAN station recently heid an interesting competition. Listeners were invited to decide:-whether. the transmissions they heard at a givéi time were broadeasts .of gramophone records or of the original items, -Of 16,274 answers, only fifty-two were. right. This certainly shows how much advanced the echnique of gramophone tecord broadcasts has become, and it will. be well to beware in future, as even the best-sounding orchestra’ might be a record after all. = = a A RUMOUR has been cirenlated that . two high¢poawered broadcasting stations ave to be erected in Belgium, and they will transmit .Dnglish programmes in opposition to the B:B.0. station. It was even rumoured that the company operating these stations would be known as the International Brondeasting Company. Such a condition would have raised important international problems, but- the information, says a French journal, is without foundation. The National Institution of Broadcasting in’ Belgiiii is directed by a national group why do not accept any matter savouring of publicity. It is unlikely, then, that they will allow them to broadcast English programmes, F~ = EN Berlin a giant loudspeaker which cin be heard over 10: miles away has been constructed.. Its power is equal to that of an orchestra of 2000 instrumentalists and its weight 3° ton. Placed on the roof of a well-known firm’s premises. the loudspeaker ‘has caused a sensation in the ‘neighbourhood. he disturbance was so gréeat_.--and so many protests were received that the constructors. had to evolye.2 new idea. ‘This speaker was attached to a balloon 8000 feet high.’ Its volume then was only comfortable. Let us hope, says a French exchange, that our people will not be inflicted with’ the same idea and decide to install such a speak er in the -Biffel Power: -- --