Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 22, 11 December 1931, Unnumbered Page

Radio Round the World

THE broadeasting stations in Italy employ rather a surprising number of women as radio announcers. Thereare three in Rome, two in Milan, and three in Naples, Genoa and Balzano. The preference of the Italians © for women’s‘ voices..is because they cam'v : better than -men’s.voices. The clarity of the’ voice of an announcer is a very ‘important: factor in the pieasure to be derived from radio. "yes " * [MARcunse MARCONI is making experiments with thie object of developing the use of the ultra. shortwave fn wireless communication. He ‘claims that he conversed recently by wireless ‘telephone -on a half-metre wavelength for a distance of 30 miles, between the beach at Genoa and Sestri Levante, eani-sonth east of Genoa. bg BS . Naw. YORE’S new: Radio . City, . on _\) which excavation work for the ‘foundations has recently started, ‘is to . be! beautified by landscape gardening "at, the enormous cost of £3, 600,000. ‘Land costing £3, 500,000 will: be --left "open. for ‘gardens, while £100.000. will pe"spent on landscaping. Even. othe _ roofs of thé ten structtires will: be fransformed into modern Hanging ‘Gatdens of Babylon. | The present. plans call for. seven acres’ of ‘landscaping ‘with’ water-7 falls, fountains, pools, trees, , forma) _ flower peds and statuary. .Eyen the outer walls of the buildings will be cor: with a lacework of living. ivy. Forty: feet above the roof of the ‘six-4een-story wing of the centre puilfting. there will be a curved waterfall. with’ fi fifty-foot spillway, and cascades ending, -§n- ai reflecting pool on the roof... "2. .

HE great. expansion in Britain over’ recent years is reflected in the éxtraordinary . progress made in. the. manufacture of "Ekco". wireless, .sets. Six years ago the owners, Mr. E,- K. Cole and Mr. H. 8. Verralls, were working ina: littie two-roomed-shack, Last year, however, their sales rose to more than £500,000 worth of radio apparatus, and they now have quite the ‘larg+ est business in Southend ‘in the national affiliations. ~ oo

TTHE centenary -calebrations~ of Faraday’s discovery of electro-magnetic induction coincided with the ‘opening ‘day of the Radio-Electrical ~ World's Fair, the eighth annual fair of its kind.’ which was held at Madison Square. Garden, New York, between September 21 and 26. Tr ibutes were paid.to Faraday and:his American contemporary Henry, and exact: replicas of their inventions ‘were shown. ‘""All.the.relics of Faraday, and Henry which could be found in’ the United States were also éxhibited.

HE Michigan State Legislature "has made. it a felony. for any private’ motorcar to be. equipped, with shortwave’ receivers. ‘Only the police. are permitted to install such equipment.. The assistance . wich, such equipment has given in‘combatirg crime, can be judged. -by a {Survey recently made in. ‘Detroit. It sappeared ‘that, estimated. over a period of one month, the average time taken by police cars with radio re~ ceivers. to reach the scenes of: erime wis -4fty-one seconds. .

HE growing unpopularity of-°com: mercial advertising, which.is 41 marked. feature of American — brond‘wisting, has~ resulted "in the Buffalo Broadcasting Corporation forbidding the. usé: of ‘its stations W.G.R. and WKBW: for commercial talks from 6 ph. maintil midnight. . It seems likely that Othér-stations," sooner or later, qvill have to follow suit, though the custom ef. announcing esmmercial sponsorship of. the yaricus programmes will probably. survive.

from yh a rench | conteniporary we learn. that. the Finnish ‘broadcasting ‘ service is. shortly to be; entirely reor ganised, and the concessions enjoyed by ‘the’ ‘present: operators of: the system are y to be terminated forthwith. ’ " A‘ limited liability’ company has been- established with. a- capital of 15, 000,000 Finnish marks, all of which, with the exception of half a million: marks, ‘will’ bé held by vhe. Finnish Government. :

A MOTOR’ vessél, named "Our West: "ern Queen," is the, centre of a rovel enterprise which .is. revealed by the registration in London of 2 company . known as Pacifie Radio, Ltd.. (states an English contemporary ). The vessel is being stocked with. short-wave. receivers and other radio. apparatus, apg will«eruise among the various isl in the South=Pacific, with the object providing the planters .With: the mea for the reception of programmes -broa cast ‘on the ghortwayes from differet countries. *"jualified radio © engineer: will be on ‘béaxd to carty out the in»tallation: o he apparatus in the homes of the on