Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 19, 21 November 1930, Unnumbered Page

Radio Round the World

Wavelets Stations within 100 miles of the American coast must cease their transmissions when a ghip signals, the $,0.8. The beacon service in the United States now possesses 78 radio beacons, scattered along the coast of the Atiantic, the Pacific and the Great Lakes, The Norwegian Government is taking over broadcasting in that country and leasing out the programmes. In 1934 there are to be 43 main and relay stations. It is estimated that over 2000 schools in France have been equipped with radio receiving sets.

Two giant valves, measuring each — 7 feet high and requiring 5 tons of water an hour for cooling purposes, constitute the nerve centre of the new KDKA station at Saxonburgh (U.S.A.). These valves are each rated at 200 kilowatts. . & * oe JIN new station of Chi-Hoa, near Saigon, French Indo-China, with a power of 100 kilowatts, transmits on 49 metres, The station is owned by the Indo-Chinese Film Corporation and broadcasts between 12.40 p.m. and 2.40 p.m. s Es s "QTEP in, sir, and ‘choose your station," is the slogan of an enterprising French radio dealer who is touring Brittany with a radio-equipped car. Free technical advice is given to every inquirer. th Bd HBP Americans are actively taking up the installation of radio in motor-cars, A fleet of 5-16 eylinder. radio-equipped cars are on a demonstration tour of Durope. They intend to first cross the North of Europe, then Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Scandinavia, Germany, and Austria. Then they will proceed to Switzerland and afterward return to France,

HE American journal, "Sound Vilm," which represents the-sound film industry, states that the telecinema is being enthusiastically pushed in America, Mr. J. Snitmar, the president of Radio Pictures, has himself given a practical solution for the exploitation of the telecinema. The apparatus will be rented to those requiring it for the sum of one dollar a week, the transmitting apparatus can be installed in any ordinary room and the pictures be broadeast to all the

cinemas that possess’ the necessary receivers. The number of these installations are anticipated soon to reach several millions, and bookings have already been heavy. Sound telecinematagraph will,.soon be an ,accomplished fact. J E . i : . oa N American aviator flying over Buenos Aires at an altitude of nearly 4000 feet recently conversed with the captain and officers of the liner Majestic, which was at the time 450 miles from the Mnglish coast. The conversation was perfectly clear and lasted seven minutes during which time the pilot gave his impressions of the city and invited his hearers to his club on their arrival in New York.

DURING recent experiments in _ which Senator Marconi, the incarried on communication with Sydney, from his yacht anchored near Genoa, Italy, a message from Mar-~ coni coming over 11,000 miles of space was recorded on a gramophone record f i at Sydney, and later retransmitted -to the sender. The test led to a discussion of the feasibility of "bottling" important radio programmes in like manner for rebroadcasting.

WIRELESS is developing rapidly in Germgny,, During the last four , years the number of Hsteners have increased at the ‘rate of half a million annually,’ the actual number being now 8,200,000. Great trouble is taken to. ensure good programmes. During the past year 1585 artists and speakers were retained. for German broadcasting. During the same year more than £300,000 was paid to artists who were not regular performers. The 28 broadcasting stations use 125 millions kil watts, representing a total value 4f £1,500,000. GPANISH broadcasting plans are "in the aix" once more, The late dictator, Primo de Rivera, decreed that broadeasting should be entrusted to & single enterprise for a period of twenty years, the selection being made after 2 competition in which all broadcasting concerns would be invited to take part. With the disappearance of the dictator’s regime, however, other counsellors have stepped in, with the result that the idea . of a competition has been. abandoned. Spanish listeners are, DOW uncertain J} whether their future programmes will be provided by private enterprise or by the State.