RADIO Round the World

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 16, 28 October 1932, Unnumbered Page

RADIO Round the World

MATEUR transmitters in Great Britain are being urged to join the Royal Naval Wireless Auxiliary Reserve, the formation of which was announced a few months ago. The principal object is to provide a reserve of operators: trained in nayal procedure for service during war or 4 national emergency. As in other countries, areas and districts will have complete units allocated to them, consisting of a maximum of five trans mitting stations, and training will commence with unit training, to be followed by inter-unit and sectional training, The reserve will be. under the orders of the Admiralty, and the internal administration under a committee, the .members of which will be appointed annually. + Ed Wits. the taking over of all broadcasting activities by the Government.in Germany the elimination of electrical interference to wireless reception now devolved upon the postal department. Hitherto this function has been conducted by the amateurs’ organisations. During the first half of this year the amateurs investigated 538,000 complaints and traced actual electric interference in 49,000 cases. Interference was eliminated at the source in 67 per cent. of the cases, while alterations in receivers proved effective in another 25 per cent. The average cost of tracking and elimination of trouble in each case was between five shillings and seven shillings and sixpence. * =

---- Ls our again. ONSIDERABLDE surprise was created in American wireless circles when it was announced = that Major-General C. K. Saltzman had resigned from the chairmanship of the Federal Radio Commission. When his appointment to the commission was being considered by the Senate General Saltzman held directly or indirectly large interests in communication fields. At the request of the Senate he disposed of all his stock-a fortunate move on the _general’s part, for shortly after his "gppointment the communication market crashed badly. x * Bg AST year listeners in Switzerland raised an outcry against the amount of recorded music being transmitted from their local stations, and protests were made by radio societies | and members of the public. So fervid: were the protestations that the Swiss were being internationalised by recorded versions of foreign performed. music, that the authorities were compelled to concentrate upon local performers. Since then listeners have, realised the difficulty of a small country to supply its own broadcast fare, and gradually ‘the recor ad is growing in fay- * x vo . ECENTLY at Almels, the Dutch, police seized a private and seeret station which had been interfering with _ Langenberg. After the seizure, Langen-

berg mysteriously continued to suffer in the same way. Finally, after much searching, the Dutch authorities discovered that the police themselves had been unable to resist the temptation to broadcast, and: had continued to work the station after its "arrest." In Holland many an amateur heart beats beneath the police tunic. Li a * LANS for the formation of a wired wireless system in the U.S.A. are becoming more definite. The aims are for reception through special installation equipment of programmes . music, lectures ang news: without ady vertising. An eight hundred milli dollar .publiec utility. holding company is being formed, which will connect up homesteads and instal apparatus = at from two to five dollars a month. The American Telephone and ‘Telegraph Company has already leased the longdistance telephone lines for the project. Seventy-eight large switchboards have been made for the use of sub-stations to transfer programmes from telephone lines to electric lighting wires. ES + SOUND-FILM has been made of > m2 complete day’s programme ot the Munich broadeasting station. The pictures were taken in the studios and the sound was picked up and earried by telephone cable to the studios of the film company, some distance from the town, there to be recorded on the film. All the actual performers, announcers, orchestra, ete., figure on the

film, and even the studio audience appears. A suggestion has been made that the B.B.C. make a similar film of their activities. This could be sent through the provinces and around the Empire, thus permitting very many who have no hope of actually seeing performances at Broadcasting House to see a film and a. recorded version. T Bombay, the police, who haye been engaged for weeks on a search aided by radio detectors, discovered a hidden broadeasting station and arrested four persons, including the grandson of a late High Court judg who is a wireless expert,-also the of: Pandit Malaviya, a prominent C gress 7 Téader, and Chandiani, the Indian winner of the Viceroy’s air race trophy. It is alleged that the station has been broadcasting propaganda at intervals when.the State service was not operating. The transmitter was carried about in a car, the aerial being attached to a small..balloon. * % * WHENEVER a girl is missing from home on the Pacifie Coast of Ameriea,the. police. first ascertain from her parents her favourite radio programmes. Arrangements are then made for an appeal to be broadcast ‘either just before or immediately after her fayourite-programme. By this system a great measure of success has attended broadeast efforts to have lost _girls restored to their homes.