World Radio News

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 48, 10 June 1932, Page 6

World Radio News

ACCIDENTS and special circumstances occasionally necessitate the withdrawal of important broadcasting programmes. The B.B.O. have recently had to postpone a mining play called "Danger," because on the very day it was to have been broadcast twelve men were killed in a mine accident. = * a FIRE-FIGHTERS in America’s national forest will this summer be equipped with portable transmitting and receiving radio sets. "Each set weighs 10lb., but will enable the forest personnel to keep in cotistant touch by signal. code. A telephony set, weighing 25lb., and with a range of one hundred miles, will also be tried out, but this type will be transported on horseback. Ed * s RUTHLESS retrenchment is the order of the day with the German broadcasting authorities, and the latest move is the decision to put into Service the new auditorium at the Berlin Radio House without adopting the elaborate acoustic devices which had bwen planned by its engineers. Other pijoposed. economy measures are the s pression of "local" programmes in favour of national relays and the shortening of the transmission periods. * * EJ N electrical organ was recently demonstrated over an American radio network by its inventor, Richard H. Ranger. No microphones were used, because the notes produced by the musician were in the form of electrical, not sound, impulses. In other words, the organ was connected directly to the broadcast transmitter without any intervening pickup. Thus the instrumentalist was not able to hear his music until the vibrations made the round trip to and from the transmitter to a radio receiver in the same room as the organ. .