RADIO Round the World

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 11, 23 September 1932, Unnumbered Page

RADIO Round the World

a -- ------------- --- Pr ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee WITHIN a very short period after its inauguration 2000 homes in ‘Switzerland have been wired for wired wireless. % * * O far has the science of television advanced that a number of telephones in Paris are fitted with teleVision apparatus, whereby a caller is enabled to see the image of the person at the other end of the line. The device has not been generally adopted, but the success attained suggests that "this may be so in the near future. F * Fa SHE first television station in Canada was opened in July. Two transmitters are being used. The sight transmitter operates on a band of frequencies ranging from 2100 to 2200 ke., with synchronised sound on 340 metres, Other television stations are to be erected and 2 boom in sound and sight broadcasting is predicted. o % = THE broadcasting authorities in South Africa and India were yery successful in their rebroadcasts of the opening of the Ottawa Conference. South Africa received the messages oyer the Post Office’s South African teleplone service. Transmission was made for both countries by the British Goyernment station, Rugby. & a at FOR a city which acclaims itself #s being the artistic centre of the world it is somewhat surprising to find that Radio Paris broadcasts more gramophone musi¢ than any other station in Kurope, More than one-quar-ter of this station’s transmissious are devoted to mechanical music. ae nt * [STIL Amos and Andy commenced a series of broadcasts at seven o'clock in the evening advertisers in _ America looked upon that hour as an unpopular one. Since then the demand for space on programmes at 7 pin. has exceeded the supply. Many sponsors have offered premium rates for time immediately preceding the turn of the famous pair of burut-cork comedians, m * a STATION 2GB, Sydney, is to have two new studios which, it is claimed, will be the finest in Australia. The coutrol equipment is to be overhauled thoroughly and this department, when alterations ‘and additions have been made, is expected to be the best in the country. . Co Bo Bg (GERMANY has abolished the system . of privately and municipally-own-"ed broadcasting organisations and placed the service wholly under Government ownership. Each of the separate States will be represented on the executive board responsible for programmes and provision has been made for each separate State to broadcast programmes reflective of its own art and traditions.

I LFA OE YT helt C17 WN unusual feature of the new shortwaye beam station now in course of erection near Shanghai will be the inclusion of auxiliary apparatus enabling the transmitters to be utilised for broadcasting services, when not in use for commercial telegraphy. A complete set of studio equipment is to be supplied which will permit the transmission of broadcast programmes on short-wave lengths. On the completion of the station a direct commercial wireless circuit will be provided for the first time between Great Britain and China. : * * * [ASTENERS in the Mossel Bay %@ trict of the Cape Province of Sogith Africa have almost without excep signed a petition forwarded to the Cape Town station strongly condemning reception from that transmitter. During 2 period of cight months only on twelve nights was the signal worth tuning to. So regular hare been complaints from the east coast that the authorities have decided to erect a new transmitter. Following upon this decision, Grahamstown has negotiated with the PostmasterGeneral for the establishment of a broudeasting station in that district, Which would probably effectively serve Mossel Bay. Grahamstown residents are so keenly interested that they have signified their williugness to supply the necessury capital and request that all listeners within 100 miles be charged a license fee. a e % I the 35 million receiving sets installed in homes throughout the world, almost half are operated under licenses. ‘The total population of countries where: licenses are required is 370 millions, which is approximately three times the population of the U.S.A., yet the States have double the nunjber of broadcasting stations that the "license" countries have, * % * Two London-Edinburgh express trains have been fitted for wireless reception, Two types of receivers are employed which work in conjunction with a gramophone, which eca ~ be utilised when the wireless fare is Bsttitable, Each receiver is tuned to different station and each can be faded out if so desired. Headphones are supplied to passengers at a hire charge of one shilling, and each pair of phones has its own volume control. . t ms a (THE latest Baird televisor will have many new. features and will be retailed in Britain for between £25 and £30. Instead of having to pecr into a leus at a small image in red und black, a number of persons will ‘bé able to sit comfortably round the receiver and:witness scenes on a2 parchment screen four inches wide and nine inches high. The room need not be completely darkened. The televisor is operated from the mains, and vision signals can be obtained from any first-class wireless receiver which is constructed to receive signals on ‘he picture band,