Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 35, 13 March 1931, Unnumbered Page

Radio Round the World

? ’ . " 'THD. tendency toward: higher. power ' for Huropean: broadcasting sta--tions is once more revéaled in the. plans recently drawn. up for, the ereétion of a new 100 ‘k.w. station at ‘Budapest, Wit the extension of the trans- ‘ Atlantic Telephone Service to all ‘parts of. Canada and Mexico -on*January 1,'Kurope was brought into telephonic touch with the whole continent of ‘North. America,. including Cuba, Pe ee} eT ect "A GRAND ‘campaign against mans imiade’ static has been launched in Czecho/Slovdkia With: the circularising, of; five’ hundred ;thousand owners of electrical apparatus. , The :trouble caused to listeners by power: interference is fully described, as well-as the methods by which this‘may be ayoided. : * "te * ‘AN. exhibition. car devoted entirely to wireless is included in a special electrical demonstration train run’ by, the Orleans Railway Company: The... train is taken to remote districts on’ the railway system and is. proving highly successful in spreading the gospel of electricity:-among the peasant community. > * . 2. FRENCH broadeasting. prospects ap"pear to be taking. a.turn for the better,. for the Parliamentary Financial Committee of that country has voted substantial credits for the opevr-. ation of future broadcasting services. The committee recommends: the — borrowing of a sum of 65 million francs for the completion of a national broadcasting system. "HE village of Hythe, near Southampton, owns the first public radio clock in the country. Standing 4n the village square, the clock is connected: to a wireless receiver, and is periodically synchronised with Big Ben. A loudspeaker is incorporated in the clock so that villagers can hear the chimes from Westminster as well as the six "dots" from Greenwich. * * * TANY existing notions that the new Vatican City wireless station is to be devoted solely to religious uses will ‘be. dispelled: by the news that elabor‘ate arrangements are in hand for research. work in counection with wireless echoes. © Although the station is equipped with Marconi duplex telephony gear cavable of. world-wide con munication, the transmissiow periods will be infrequent. thus permitting Wather Gianfranceschi, the — station director, to collaborate with the Pontificai Academy of Science in the investigation of many radio phenomena now perplexing radio scientists. In addition to the subject of radio echoes, the experimenters will probe into the questions of fading, atmdspherics and the influence of the sun on electro-mag-netic waves.