Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 28, 23 January 1931, Unnumbered Page

Radio Round the World

URING a recent heavy storm the aerial of Radio Paris, France's most powerful broadcaster, was blown down in the early part of the evening, and the concert in progress was ‘consequently interrupted. By working all night the engineers succeeded ‘in ‘repairing the damage, and the station commenced transmitting once more at moon the next day. 2 * * T has been calculated that all the German stations together use 2 power of 535 kilowatts,. while Nngland comes next with 470, and Russia, Sweden, and Ozecho-Slovakia follow on with 222, 120, and 107 kilowatts reFrance uses only 64 kilowatts." rr gc ty ety rn En _ + 8 : JS order: "that listeners: may identify the. particular form of interference from . which they suffer, a OzechoSlovakian. station is broadcasting examples of various electrical noises and their causes, together with advice as to remedy. . 2 % 3 rpHn microphone reserved for the per- * gonal use of the King when broadcasting speeches is made of pure silver, decorated with the Royal Coat of.Arms. On a plate are nine dates commemorating the speeches broadcast by his Mas esty. . e (AMERICAN stations are refusing to allow visitors to the studio during broadcasting hours, as it is known that

wearing apparel absorbs sound and this destroys the balance of orchestral items. * * * "TELEPHONIC communication be- ‘ tween France and Indo-China costs & little. over £22 for the first three minutes. and nearly £8 for each- succeeding minute. * * % A STATION to be used solely for television is in course of erection at Doberitz in Germany. * = * [Tz appears that one must accept it as a fact that television has "arrived" in England and the’ United States, even if if is somewhat crude. New Zealand, however, is doing the right thing in waiting until it emerges from its present primitive stage. Ulmer G. Turner, technical radio editor of the Chicago "Herald and Examiner," says the television receiver he uses is

"astonishingly Simple-merely a small motor turning 2 metal disc with a lamp behind it." He adds: "If one already has a shortwave set the additional ap(£10)." a *. ‘¢ a) HE British Broadcasting "Corpora_tion recently announced, .in connection with a concert in aid of the Wireless for the Blind Fund, that free sets have now been distributed to over 8000 blind persons.

HAVING advocated stringent regulations for the suppression of all electrical apparatus causing interference with radio tecéption, a Paris wireless journal has received. a letter which runs as follows:-"Should your campaign prove -successful, ~we shali no doubt soon read in the Press that M. --, possessor of a crystal set, has obtained a legal injunction shutting down a 30,000-kilowatt. generating station!"

HB legend "Radio" now appears on certain of the coaches on the Wat-saw-Lodz railway, indicating that travellers should choose these if they wish to enjoy broadcast. reception (states a contemporary). The charge is ninepence per ‘pair of headphones, The man who saw "Radio" on a British railway coach is receiving optical treatment.

NEW. York leads other American States in the number of wireless sets within its borders, the estimated total being 1,752,000. Next comes California with approximately 1,470,000. These figures have been evolved by the Department of Commerce after a7 eh survey "of the’ 1980 cénsius forms, Bin which, for the first-time in U.S. hisY5ry, citizens. were required ‘to answer the question: ‘Have ‘you-a’ radio? The grand total of receivers in the .United States is estimated ‘at 13;478,600. .

ARON VON.ARDENNE, a prominent German radio engineer, has de vised a scheme whereby Berlin listeners, even those using crystal sets, could hear London, Paris, or Rome as dis-, tinctly as their local station,’ His plan is to construct about five receiving stations in. different places, well outside. the city.. Hach of these stations would receive the programme of one .of the most important foreign broadcasting stations. The receiving stations would relay the programmes to small trans-. mitting stations within the city, which would broadcast in the same way as the local stations.