ROYAL RADIO FANS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 August 1925, Page 3

ROYAL RADIO FANS.

.V KING GEORGE LISTENS-] N. SPECIAL RECEIVING SET. King George and Queen Mary have become enthusiastic radio fans in thf past year, writes Mr. Don Skene in a. Londo n message to the. Chicago Tribune. Despite their many daily appointments and responsibilities they both fnidi time almost every day to iisten-in for a while to the programmes of the British Broadcasting Company. About a. year ago this company, which holds the British broadcasting monopoly, presented the King and Queen with a fine receiving set, which was installed i n Buckingham Palace. Tile two rulers learned to tune in like millions of other radio enthusiasts. They became so attached to . their set that they had it moved to Balmoral Castle when they left London for a rest there last summer, and they carried a large set with them on their recent Mediterranean cruise on the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert. The palace receiver was designed by Captain P. .P. Eckersley, leading radio expert. It is said to have no equal in the world for purity of reception and lack of interference. It is independent of an outside or. even frame aerial and connection to earth. Two copper plates, one at the top and the other at the base of the cabinet, collect the energy. There are six tubes, two fulfilling the function of high frequency amplifiers, one, being the detector and the other three ’ow frequency amplifiers. 'file entire apparatus, with loudspeaker, head ’phones and batteries, is contained in a magnificent mahogany cabinet, with ebony panels, inlaid with ivory and mounted on an ebony stand, A silk screened compartment contains the tubes and controls. There are four sets of head ’phones. The King and Queen have been spared some of the troubled of more humble wireless fans, for the palace sot has required not a single adjustment since it was installed. The Royal radio amateurs have headed the campaign now being carried on by the London Daily News to put every hospital bed in London in wireless touch with the London broadcasting station. The King donated PICK) and the Queen £SO to this worthy cause, which has aroused a fine response throughout the country.