Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 6, 21 August 1931, Unnumbered Page

Radio Round the World

"FID who oscillates is lost’ said a London magistrate recently when fining an unlicensed listener, detected as the result of an oscillation complaint, : » * X-BRS will be interested in a re- " cently-issued Soviet order which states that*létters; to Russian brouadeasting stations need, not be stamped. BRoavoasrrva, tition KMTER . at: Los Angeles plans to hold a radio auetion, A. new telephone switchboard is being installed so'that bids cani.be aecepted at. the’ rate ‘of 4000 per ménutpe mS tite Fs : % THE cost of a 1 "prgposed system ot broadcast Seduce vtion = throug thout Czecho-Slovakia:is £144,000. . A-syire--less census just;taken- shows that 17 per cent. of schools én‘ that country are: already fully equipped with. while 18 per cent. are prepared to-in stal it at their own expense. .The remaining 70 per cent.. will require the. suth mentioned: if reliable apparatus is to be installed. : ce i HROUGH the of ‘ultrashortwave radiations from a special transmitter, Mr. Robert Pape, ‘of: Soest, Holland, claims.‘to. be | able’ £0’ arrest decomposition-~ in’ organic, pre: ducts, The invention. consists ‘Of generator of waves_of about five centimetres in Iéngth, .which pro duce, after about 10 days and within, a radius -of twenty metres from the. machine, an electro-magnetic field in which no organic product can decom... pose. Hggs, broken on a plate, Were kept for several months with not a sign of decay.

ay SHORTWAVE wireless has attracted fms untisual number of inventors during the: "past year, according to the annual report of the London Patents Office. ;. Attention has been concen: trated on directional systems employ: ing nerials'of beam types.- As usual, the problerii of fading has also proved a, draws "And now, who will tackle ; "Rémogpherles ? * e . % * Dav "EDWARD | HUGHES, ‘ the British scientist who discovered electro- magnetic waves, was born on May 46,.1831, and several weeks ago the’ Br -itish? Institute of Blectrical Bna Hughes’. Centenary Commemoration . meeting. Although it is now:--a'-- well-established fact that Hughes aia indeed anticipate Hertz in the discovery of the waves, the earlier discovery was at the time regarded as so impossible that it was not announced ; to Hertz, therefore, is rightly accorded the honour of being the first publicly to make .their existence known.

cH = we & oe: vse of adjusting the wire‘less "ligense fee~"in proportion to the privileges pujoyed" was raised re. cently ‘in*thesHouse of ‘Commons at Home, ; buf di@ not draw a very encouraging answer fiom Major Atlee. the Postminstér- Genéral, In his replys. ‘Major Atlee’ ‘said that, with more than; 3,600, 000: dicenses in force, it was. -that!the dicensing system should be)kept. aS Simaple as possible... Any arrangement: Whder which the ‘amount of the license fee depended--os~ the type. of apparatus employed would intrédyee-inany- difficuities, and he did not. consider. that a change wonld be in the Ayah tntorest, or AS svéChSSiur: demonstration of a new. recording ‘apparatus, the Blatt‘was recently given in ‘the special recording room which has been set apart at the British Broadcasting Corporation’s studios; The magnetised ‘steel. tape, which is "less than a quarter of an inch, wide, is slowly transferred from one "drum "to -another, passing through a~pick-up- device which re-

sponds to the varying degrees of magnetisation, and reconverts them into current pulses in the amplifier system. Reproduction on the loudspeaker was up to the best’ gramophone standard, with, of course, the advantage that there was no scrateh,. Each drum earries enough tape for a twenty minutes’ performance. * s BROADCASTING in. South~ Africa has been Well protected . by the Radio Act, but in spite of the stringent provisions of this, considerable. piracy is still carried jon. + Many of these pirates are difficult trace,.espécially in a country so layge%is South: Africa, and, although postal Officials.report on all aerials érectedy’the use of indoor werials makes illicjt ‘listening, possible. At the end. of Jast: year there were 25,121 subst¢ribers in‘all parts. of the country,.. the , ineréase:. during: the 1 nine. months: the ‘year being. than that made . cat tite coe Dteyso years, > 7 . é; eo Two American’ amateurs, Carl Miller "* and Kennéth Smith, recently kept a 24-hour wate. attheiy ‘station, Wd5AUC, Brooks Field, Texas; with the object of determining how:-much useful work could be acéomplished by, a typical transmitter fiom amirise to sunrise. AcLeague, they secured contact! with ever ¥ State in the Union, and also communicated with China, Cuba, Canada, New Zealand, Nictragua, Hawaii,: Méxito, Haiti, Tahiti,and.Porto Rico.