Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 7, 25 August 1933, Unnumbered Page

Radio Round the World

NB of the hitherto unrevealed projects of the "Century of Progress Exposition" at Chicago was a 2000feet steel tower, double the height of the Hiffel Tower. This landmark was to have been used for television and sound broadcasting, but owing to insufficient financial support the projeci had to be dropped. Fs a * HE real test of greatness is not the inclusion of one’s name in "Wko’s Who," but representation among the gallery of wax celebrities at Madame Tussaud’s, It is understood this signal honour is to be conferred upon Sir John Reith in the near future. : * * ® ‘HE most successful talks at Hilversum recently have been a series on dressmaking lessons, sponsored by "Avro," one of the Dutch-listeners’ clubs. :An explanatory pamphlet sold to the tune of 20,000. 2 Py * AN International Listeners’ Union is being formed, the object of which is to-unite the amateurs and listeners of different countries to defend their eommon interests and represent them at international radio conferences. The uncontrolled autocratic. policy of vroadecasting organisations in many States has made it imperative that listeners and-amateurs shall be considered,

ml) RS Colin W. Smith, first editor of the "N.Z Radio ‘Times’ and founder of the New Zealand DX Club, has taken up his residence in Melbourne. Writing in the Melbourne radio journal, "The Listener In" Mr. Smith reviews broadcasting generally -in the Dominion and expresses the ‘ opinion that the programmes are fairly popular considering their limitations. The 2YA auxiliary, or as it is ealled, 2YO, is a great success, he says. This little transmitter chirps away in great style during the news and reports session from the main station. The antenna is to the left of the main 2YA masts (looking from city) but is not nearly so ambitious; in.fact it looks just what it is-an afterthought, but a happy one. * e "THE latest youngest amateur radio operator is an eight-year-old girl, Jean Hudson, of Delaware, tHler father is well known to hams as the owner of W3BAK. Jean hag long been proficient with the typewriter, which she can use blindfolded, and when she began to play with the teéilegraph key her father and brother gave her some regular code practice. Her proud father says she took to it su naturally that as soon as she couid read he felt compelled: to help her to learn something of radio laws and regulations, Jean also plays the violin in the school orchestra and/blews ‘@ trumpet,

LJSTENERS to the YA Stations are fortunate‘in having a team of good announcers behind the Board’s microphones. The same comment applies to most of the announcers from the National Stations in the Commonwealth. In both Australia and New Zealand, however, there is room for much improvement in respect of some of the announcers from B stations. In some cases announcers show a lamentable ignorance of correct pronunciation, equalled only by their lack of knowledge of correct grammar. ‘Titles of recordings in foreign languages are frequently "murdered" in pronuncia-tion-it ig not long since a listener heard one announcer des¢ribe a recording by Beniamino Gigli as a "song by Benjamin Giggly. e =: . % N Italy house porters.of flats and apartment houses are required by law to act ag radio sleuths for detecting unlicensed possessors of radio apparatus. Printed questionnaires are supplied by the police authorities, and these have to be filled up with full particulars of any radio equipment in the particular house. under each porter’s care. Heavy penalties are i:flicted upon delinquents, * * € RADIO LA LOUVIERE, which has been operating in Belgium in poiitical party interests, was recently -besieged by the Deputy Public Prosecutor, an examining magistrate, a court elerk, two Post Office technicians and 3, police commissioner. Transmission was stopped and the apparatus sealed, asthe broadcast was unauthorised,