Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 52, 10 July 1931, Unnumbered Page

Radio Round the World

— Me. AYLESWORTH, president of the National Broadcasting Company of America, predicts that within three years radio television will bring grand opera into countless American homes. = * * HE superheterodyne is deemed the ‘* most suitable set for train reception by the Italian railway authorities, who have installed a receiver of this type on the Milan-Venice express. xcellent results have been achieved. Ld * + ‘A SYSTEM of wired wireless has been installed on the Virginian railways to enable communication to be made between the front and rear of the long freight trains, many of which are a mile in length. s = * IPTY metres during daylight and 85 during darkness are the wavelengths chosen for the recently-erected station for the League of Nations. An emergency Channel on 18 metres is also provided for. World-wide reception of this station should be possible. * % _® He R.H. the Duke of York, who is the * "wireless" member of the Royal Family, has recently completed the construction of a two-screen-grid receiver in his workshop at 145 Piccadilly, and uses it to receive the majority of the European broadcasting stations. z * Bd HEN a Danish manufacturer of. . Diesel motors was recently given an urgent order from America for a

drawing of a Diesel motor part needed for a repair he sent the drawing to London, where it was transmitted via photo-radio to New York. = "THE Budapest newspaper "Voice of the People" has started a campaign to lower the cost of wireless licenses, declaring that, judged on the basis of the working man’s wage, the Hungarian license is the most expensive in the world. The annual fee is. 24/-, or 24 pengos per month. es * s [x Greece, broadcasting is prohibited, but the Government has indicated its intention of creating a broadcasting mouopoly as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made. Reception is permitted under certain restrictions to. Greek citizens, but is pr ohibited to foreigners.

WIRELESS and flying have added so much to the work of lawyers that New York University has decided to found an American Academy of Air Law, "designed to promote academic interest in the new jurisprudence of aviation and radio." * ft ADIO sets have been banished from the Wastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, U.S.A., following a discoyery that the convicts were utilising them to receive messages in code explaining how narcotics would be smuggled into the prison. * * STARTLING report is published by an English contemporary to the effect that a famous Spanish humorist, Ramon Gomez, has been permitted to install a permanent microphone at his home linked up by land line to the

nearest broadcasting statioi. The in novation has been arranged "so thifé he ean intervene at pleasure during the transmissions for the purpose of throwing in a joke." * * * [t is announced that Sir John Reith, director-general of the Bbitish Broadcasting Company, will shortly visit the United States. An English contemporary states that he is going primarily in response to an invitation to take part in an educational confer-ence-a pleasing compliment to the British broadcasting service. Xe a x QTATISTIOCS taken on April.30, 1981, show an increase of 12 per cent. in radio licenses in Germany over a period of twelve months, and it is now estimated that a quarter of the tota], population of the country are euthusiasts. 1 ae * * «@ ; DPDENMARE appears to be the latesr eountry to become "pirate conscious." The police are co-operating with the Post Office authorities in a wholesale onslaught on the unlicensed fraternity. Delinquents are liable not only to a fine of from £2 to £26, but to the confiscation of. all radio apparatus. ~ ne * TiE wireless amateur movement in Poland. is growing rapidly, and a number of radio organisations have lately come into being. The importance of a knowledge of wireless in general, and of a wider appreciation of broadcasting in particular, is recognised. It has, therefore, been decided to foster this knowledge in the Polish_ youth, and, in order that their and experiments may be co-ordinateu, arrangements are being made to found school radio clubs. * * ‘Pou Soviet Government have definitely approved the construction of six new stations which are to serve the Far Hast. Some will be completed next year, and it is said they will be strong enough to be heard in India and Africa, and that they will broadcast chiefly programmes in Oriental languages. * * A COMPANY has been formed in ‘France with the title of "Tele--vision-Baird-Nathan." The objects of the company are to exploit tbe invention and patents of the Baird Lelevision in France, Belgium, Luxeml and in the French and, Belgian col It is expected that as an outco: the formation of this company further facilities for television experiments .in these countries will shortly be available. e * e OW microphone technique must differ with different types of instruments is the subject of lessons now included in the radio speaking course at Illinois University conducted by Prof. W. P. Sandford. The professor illustrates the technique necessary with the carbon "mike," and contrasts it with the methods required when a condens 1 microphone is used, the lecture being. followed by speaking drill with bota types. Professor Sandford insists on the maintenance of a relaxed throat so as to produce smooth, sustained tones wlen addressing the microphone. Abrupt and explosive utterances must he avoided, while breath control is required to sustain the tone,