NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19736, 8 September 1927, Page 18

NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

PHOTOGRAPH BY WIRELESS. A total of 2,234,988 broadcast receiving station licences bad been issued in Great Britain on June 30 The American station, KFON, transmitting on 241 metres, is now being heard regularly early in the evening by a number of Auckland listeners. Germany is to srect shortly a gigantic broadcasting station to work with a power of 100 kilowatts in the aerial on a wavelength of 1250 metres. • The station will he located at Zeesben, twenty miles from Berlin. The radio section of the United States of America Patent Office has doubled in size in the past six or seven years. Applications for radio patents number approximately 125 a month, as compared with about 60 a month in 1920. A wireless photograph is reported to have been responsible for the identification in New York of a man wanted for bank robbery in Vera Cruz. Although travelling under an assumed name, the man admitted his identity when confronted with his radio likeness on landing in New York Delight is heing expressed by Australian listeners at the decision of 2BL to reduce the amount of jazz music beint; broadcast by that, station, and to substitute drama Three popular plavs have already been broadcast, and others are promised in the near future. This is a welcome change, from the surfeit of jazz music broadcast from all stations. There has been erected at Daventry, England a new broadcasting station known as Daventry Junior, SGB. Transmissions were to commence on August 27 on a wave-length of 491 metres. The writer has been unable to find exact information of the power used, but it is much greater than that of 2LO, London. New Zealand listeners who lhave made the attempt to obtain direct reception of British broadcasts should concentrate their attention on SGB rather than 2LO.