Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 22, 7 December 1934, Page 40

Radio Round the World

()PPORTUNTTY for extending tech- ' nical information about radio among the blind so that they may. become amateur radio operators has been created by the Braille Department of the New York Chapter of the American Red Cross. The department has completed the transcription of "The Radio Amateur’s Handbook," published by the American Radio Relay League into nine Braille volumes, complete with more than 100 diagrams, -and plans to make it available to blind radio students through the New York Mercantile Library. The transcription was made by Hthel and Helen R. Hendricks, working for the Braille Department of the Red Cross, of which Mrs. Richard F. Armstrong is director and Mrs. Donald M, Forgan is assistant direetor. The diagrams, which are regarded as probably the first made in Braille of complicated and technical radio circuits, were transcribed by Mrs. ’Armst) ong, A SIMPLE amateur radio station, ~ overated by a 78-year-old Canadian physician, is one of the British Enmpire’s most valuable outposts in strife-torn China. Dr. William Malcoir health officer of Chefoo in the province of Shantung, is the operator of this station. His most recent feat Was the transmitting of first word to the British Legation of the s.s. Shuntien piracy at the mouth of the Yellow River, last summer. His services in this instance were invaluable to the officials concerned. A number of messages have been handled to

and from the British Fleet.in Chinese waters. Dr, Malcolm has received an official expression of gratitude from the British Navy for his services in this connection. His station, AC3MA, the only amateur station in Shantung Province, has been on the air consistently for nearly seven years, and has been in communication with every part of the- globe,