Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 51, 30 June 1933, Page 41

Radio Round the World

N future London’s police cars are ta be equipped with short-wave wireless, and to avoid interference with broadeast reception communications are to be restricted to Morse code. Londoners will therefore not share the exhilarating custom of listening to police messages which is so popular in the U.S.A. % % [DESPITE the fact that Czechoslovakia possesses the high-pow-ered Prague station and four provincial relay transmitters, the country is still not effectively covered, and a demand has been made that a further relay station be erected at Pilsen. Formerly in Bohemia, Pilsen is the wellknown "Lager" brewing centre. a: % Dd

HEN French listeners pay a | license fee they will be able to criticise programmes with the hearty air of proprietorship possible only to listeners who pay for what they get. The Postmaster-General has stated the State stations will refuse all sponsored programmes and regard as its primary duty the satisfaction of the public. THE new B.B.C. station at Droitwich will have two masts of the lattice steel type each 700 feet high. These will be similar in design to the 500 feet masts built for the Scottish Regional, North Regional and West Regional stations. s = s WIRELESS is to be enlisted in the campaign against the common house fly. It is announced by the French National Office of Social Hygiene that all scientific processes are to be employed in making war on flies. Radio will be used by speakers all over the world to preach a crusade of extermination.

PERSISTENT and pernicious piracy by amateur transmitters is to be attacked by the Radio Society of Great Britain. It was stated at a recent convention that there were actually members of the Society who were operating unlicensed transmitters. Several complaints were made of the piracy of another man’s call alee. * * % A RADIO lottery has been launched in Italy in which prizes from 500 to 15,000 lire can be won. Tickets are awarded to listeners who can show they have in some way assisted the development of the ‘national broadcast system. x % s

DKA has obtained exceptionally good results from an aerial secured to a "blimp" moored 1500 feet above the transmitter. The actual aerial is 500 feet in length and is connected to the transmitter by a feeder line. The object of the tests was to extend the range of broadcasting without increasing the power of the plant and to attempt to discover a transmitting level at which fading may be at a minimum ue oa * N Austria it is customary for residents to take their meals on the balconies of their houses in the summer months and here, complete with radio and gramophone, diners have thoroughly enjoyed their meals. Complaints have come to the police, however, from those who are not desirous of listening to the raucous loudspeaker of neighbours, and drastic regulations have been the result. The new edicts provide for substantial penalties if radio disturbs the peace and ir future listening with head-phones only will be permissible on balconies and verandahg