Radio Round the World
---- iat BRRoavcast reception is the rich man’s pastime in Bulgaria, where the annual receiving license costs about £4. A receiver intended for operating a public loudspeaker is taxed at £20, which perhaps explains why anti-loudspeaker by-laws are unnecessary, * : * * WHEN the ordinary Russian listener "has retired for the night the Moscow stations now transmit a special service for the benefit of country newspapers. Reporters take down the news from rapid dictation, and next morning the local "rags" feature the same stories of crime, politics, passion and market activity as the journals of the metropolis. In Russia the problem of broadcast competition with the Press does not exist. HINESE railway stations, the fayourite rendezvous of the population in their leisure hours, are to be the venue of a great loudspeaker campaign to urge the benefits of broadcasting. The province of Chekiang -has gone so far as to organise a Five Year Radio Plan, with the object of: establishing a broadcasting system on. a sound basis. S % " . wo slags "QNE cannot live now without radio," said the Dowager Queen Marie of Roumania in a recent interview. "When you have a good apparatus," added her Majesty, "you need not take any of the great express trains to find out what is going on in the: world." The Queen spends many hours listening to programmes, not only from Bucharest but from Britain and France. She is especially fondof the transmissions from London. z * e N October 12 Senatore Marconi will repeat his famous relay experi ment of two years ago when, by means of a short-wave signal from his yacht Elettra he lighted the electric lamps at an Australian exhibition. This time the same method will be employed to unveil the great statue of Christ at Rio de Janeiro. The statue is 150 feet tall and stands at the top of the Corcovado Mountain, overlooking the city. ° * we * RUSSIAN radio plans for the coming winter may include a special "barrage" in the direction of South Africa. According to the "African World," the. Soviet authorities will endeavour toe reach the masses in Johannesburg ané@ Cape Town by means of the new and pewerful station now in course of erection near Moscow. ‘The reference is obviously to the 200 kw. transmitter at Noginsk,
H{OPES that the Vatican broadcasting station would send out regular programmes for, the benefit of the world at large were dispelled on August 8, when the authorities issued the following unequivocal statement:-
"We do not and will not have 7 lar broadcast programmes, Hours hi been fixed for transmissions at lla (British summer time) on a wa
on a wavelength of 50.26 metres. A these times the station will send out news, notices and letters addressed. to the missions. On Sundays and other feast days at 11 a.m. liturgical and spiritual letters are read for the sick." * * z length of 19.84 metres, and at 8 HE growing use of trolley-buses, ~~ which cause considerable interference with -radio reception, has prompted the British Radio Association to offer a gold medal for the most practical and paper deal‘ing with methods of obviating the nuis"‘arice. In judging the papers submit) ted; major attention will be paid te their technical content, but. competitors are invited to deal also with the ‘audininistrative side of the question, particularly with a view to determin‘ing’ the division of responsibility between: the. Post. Office and the B.B.C. -research staff in the tracing and elimination of interference. & * o "THE Geneva police evidently believe that the broadcast listener should be treated like a gentleman (states an English contemporary). For. courtesy and sweet understanding of human frailty it would be difficult to find a match for the following official no‘tice addressed to local wireless users: "Sans-filistes! You who love music, from whatever country it comes, enjoy it plenteously, with intoxication (ivresse), but do not. oblige yo neighbours to hear, when they to rest, the concerts which charm yolt. Do not expose the loudspeakers on balconies or in gardens. ‘After 10 p.in. have the courtesy to close your windows, and then indulge luxuriously in all sorts of musie, gay or sad, classic, popular, or of the dance variety; but do. not impose it on neighbours whe do not desire it!" If such a notice is disregarded the police may be excused if they resort to. machine-guns,
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Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 14, 16 October 1931, Unnumbered Page
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