NOTES AND HINTS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 May 1928, Page 2

NOTES AND HINTS

The use of copper balls on an aerial over 30 feet long causes lack of selectivity.

In Sweden nearly 850,000 licenses had been issued up to March 81 last. This shews an increase of 20,000, compared to the 1927 figures.

Chicago radio stations sold time on the air at the recent elections at the price of £2 a minute. What a chance for the New Zealand Company next elections.

Africa has .caught the radio craao and Arab chiefs are purchasing the latest sets, so that they can listen to European stations. It is said that the London station is favourite, and that jazz music pleases these Arabs very much.

Caps of head phones should always be screwed up tight to avoid rattling in the diaphragm. The C; battery being merely a potential device and passing no current, has practically its shelf life.

A British newspaper writer points out that the tAvin flex used for loudspeakers makes a pretty trimming for ladies’ hats. In other words, it will suit all kinds of loud speakers.

American tasto in radio music is much higher than is usually supposed. In a questionnaire recently circulated Beethoven was the favourite composer, and the overture to “Taunhauser, ” by Wagner, Avas given first place in the musical compositions, with Suppc's “Port and Peasant” second.

Radio in China is going ahead rapidly. A short, Avavo station has been built at Nanchang, and a broadcastingstation is being constructed so that lectures and nows may be broadcast iaily.

It has been announced this year that the British postal authorities expect to pay the 8.8. C. something like £BBO,000, There are about 21 million licenses in existence and it is estimated that they are being added to at the rate of 1000 a day.