NOTES AND HINTS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6613, 18 May 1928, Page 4

NOTES AND HINTS

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

lii Sweden nearly ;>50,000 licenses had been issued up to March 31" last. This shows an increase of 20,000, compared to the 1027 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 musiu pleases these Arabs very much.

Caps of- head phones should always be screwed up tight to avoid rattling in tho diaphram.

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 twin-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 luusic is much higher ilian is usually supposed. In a questionnaire recently circulated Beethoven was the favourite composer, and the overture to "Tannhauser," by Wagner, was given first place in the musical compositions, with Suppc's "Pod and Peasant" second.

Radio in China is going ahead rapidly. A short wave station has been built at Nanchang, and a broadcasting station is being constructed so that lectures and news may bo broadcast daily.

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