Jottings from Near and Far

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 15, 20 October 1933, Page 8

Jottings from Near and Far

A GREAT "wireless week" is to be held in the U.S. during October next. It will be sponsored by the manufacturers, who evidently feel it to be a reproach that only sixty million American homes are equipped with radio. ‘ * * % HH wave-length conference at Lncerhe granted five long-wave channels to Russia in addition to several channels in the medium length band.

It is reported that yet more stations are to be erected east of the fortieth meridan, beyond which the conference has no control, * * * HE Hungarian police radio station is built like a small fortress capable of withstanding a lengthy siege. The transmitter is equipped with a power unit independent of the city electric supply in case of strikes or other disturbances. * ba % (5 ISBORNE listeners are troubled with a fairly high noise level, as a result of about 200 d.c. motors in the town, as well as other faults. The Post and Telegraph Department has shown considerable activity in locating interference, and some of the causes have been removed, but little further improvement can be effected until the motors are tackled. The dealers have invited listeners to meet and discuss fhe position, and, judging by the enthusiasm displayed recently, efforts in raising funds for apparatus to miniinise motor noises should be successful. Do * * O country has recognised so fully the danger of erosion as the United States, where 21 million acres of once productive land has gone out of cultivation through forest destruction. In two or three generations man has destroyed what nature builded for tens of centuries. Frantic efforts are being made in America to repair the damage of a short-sighted policy, and large cities are at a loss where to turn for a pure water supply owing to forest denudation. Erosion may be measured in single years, remarked "Wirihana," but it takes nature centuries to make a good top soil, and exotics Planted to repair some of the damage can never equal nature’s own way. Our forests were developed without browsing animals, and an appeal was made to the sporting instincts of those who thirst for blood to think of their-country before their own desires, ©