Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 9, 11 September 1936, Page 45

Radio Round the World

Grr DONALD BANKS, Director General of the British Post Office, claimed that 98 per cent. of interference could be quickly traced; but the freak interference was most difficult. English engineers had been asked. he said, to trace some interference in America, which was a rough humming note "of about 120 eycles per second which caused inconvenience to many commereial services. After some time it was traced to a hospital in America, where a patient was being treated with a large coil of. wire wound round him through which radio frequency currents were applied. High-tension power lines passing over the hospital acted as bis transmitting ‘aerial, and every time he moved, he varied the frequency, thus making it even more difficult for the investigators. Sik STEPHEN TALLENTS, who is some kind of public relations adviser to the B.B.C., is suggesting that announcers should give their names, like: "This is Chief Announcer Stuart Hibberd speaking to you from the Concert Hall at Broadeasting House"; but no one thinks it likely. B.B.C. -annouucers are: prohibited even from telling the press what sessions they will be announeing. AMERICA asserts that 3,000,000 ' U.S.A. cars are fitted with radio; that this radio is used more in summer than in winter; that the average carradio works an average of 2.6 hours a day; that an average car-radio works 23 per cent. longer on Sundays than on week-days; that about, 5,000,000 cars will be fitted by late in 1936, ete. ry