Radio Round the World

Radio Record, 4 September 1936, Page 58

Radio Round the World

HE Federal Communications Commission of the U.S.A. is having a lot of trouble with stations across the Mexican border which transmit advertisements for quack medicines and other knavery on high power ‘and on wavelengths already allotted to American stations... The Commission is making representations to the Mexiean Government "to outlaw these sta-

tions," because "they are not really Mexican, for they obviously cater for American listeners, and have established themselves in Mexican territory in order to circumvent American laws." A METHOD of secret facsimile transmission for telephone lines ‘and radio Wag announced recently by the famous French television pioneer-Hdouard Belin. Monsieur Belin, who presented his invention to the French War Department, guarantees that messages, even though they are intercepted by wire tapPing or radio reception, will be so garbled that they will be absolutely incomprehensible, It is expected that this system will prevent the leakage of messages in case of war. HIS is going to be a stop-not year for the B.B.C. if all its plans for 1936 come to fruition. Having completed the structural work at the Alexandra Palace, there were the television transmitters to be installed ready for programmes in August. New regional stations are to be opened in Northern Ireland, North Scotland, and at Newcastle; while North Wales is to have a five-kilo-watter and the West Regional is to be re-christened Welsh Regional, the West being served by other means. Studios are springing up everywhere. headquarters’ accommodation is being extended, and the Empire station gets bigger and bigger. Wirelessly speaking, the skies are blue, the glass is high, and we are sailing before the wind, my hearties, with a yo, heave ho!