World Radio News

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 8, 2 September 1932, Page 12

World Radio News

IN 1981 excellent progress was made in Canadian radio and, according to the latest figures, 40,000 new licenses were issued. . During the year production of sets was 70 per cent. above that of the preceding year suid , sales increased by 25 per cent. . Owing to the change-over to a.c. operated receivers the sales totalled about 286,000 sets. At the end of April this year there were over 1,100,000 receivers in operation in Japan, where the license fee approximates 1/- per month. During the month of April. permits were approved for 58,951 sets. , FRENCH ‘invention that will mark | an epoch is an automatic radio, , The transmission of messages is made" by turning knobs to indicate positions on the dials, which have the letters of the alphabet and numbers inscribed on them. The apparatus is portable and may be incorporated in ‘aeroplanes, motor-cars, launches, army posts and other such places. For submarines it may be attached to a buoy and set in operation, sending out an automatic S$ O S signal continuously. It can be set in operation merely by pressing & switch in the submarine, and should be of great value should that craft come to grief under the surface. HE British Standards Institute has ‘produced a set of wireless wiring symbols for architects and contractors. One symbol naturally indicates "Loudspeaker Outlet," which intrigues the home-builder as much as-any creation, of the architect.