From all Angles

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 23, 19 December 1930, Page 6

From all Angles

| BS Palestine recently a radio expert attached to police headquarters accidentally stumbled acrosssome signals in Russian code on a very high wavelength. By means of a frame aerial and a superheterodyne receiver mounted in'a motor-car, cross-bearings on the mystery. station were taken; and the latter thus located. During ‘one night a squad of police rushed a disused warehouse and captured the astonished operator before he could, send out.an alarm. An installation comprising complete transmitting and receiving equipment was confiscated, together with sheaves of Soviet propaganda for inciting Arab disturbances, RRANGEMENTS are almost com-) pleted for the erection of a cel tral high-nower broadcasting statio for the Irish Free State. It will be modelled on the lines of the new B.B.C. regional stations and, as it will have an aerial power of 60 k.w., it will be one of the most powerful stations in Europe. If it is found that the whole’ of the Irish Free State is not within crystal set range, the Governnient intend to remedy the defect by increasing the power by nearly one. hundred | per cent. The modern trend in Europe certainly seems to favour fewer and higher power stations. "THE latest system of centralised broadcasting is claimed to. be that installed in a school at Fort. Wayne, Indiana. It consists of a receiving set, an automatic gramophone, a microphone, and individual loudspeakers for each classroom. The studio is situated near the principal’s office, and.from there programmes are sent to all rooms in the school. The time ‘usually cousumed in assembling the ,students is saved ‘by this device. "Radio is becoming more: and more popular in America and Bngland, particularly in the rural schools, in bringing music appreciation, art, history lessons and special educational talks to the children. mo . HE following. paragraph, taken from an American journal, affords a striking illustration of the efficiency: of radio-equipped police squads when dealing with criminals. .. Two Chicago youths, Joseph Nagavewski and Lester SybsIski, established a record in their first attempt at crime recently. At 1.41 a.m. they attempted a robbery unsuccessfully. At 1.43 a.m. they were deseribed ‘to a roving police squad via radio. At 148 a.m. Nagavewski was shot twice in the back, and with Sybsk ski was captured by the officers. 7 ;