THE WIRELESS WORLD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23648, 4 November 1938, Page 2

THE WIRELESS WORLD

NEWS AND NOTES

By Magna Vox

Items ot local interest are invited Dv " Magna Vox ” for publication In this column It is necessary that such matter should reach this office by Tuesday of each week for insertion in the following Friday IYA Auckland. -651) k.c., 461. Z metr es 2YA Wellington. —570 k.c.. 526 metre 2BL Sydney.—74U k.c. 405 metres 2FC Sydney.—6lo k.c.. 476 metres 3AR Melbourne.—77o k.c. 390 metres SCL Adelaide.—73o k.c.. 411 metres 4QG Brisbane.—6oo k.c. 311 metres 3YA Christchurch-720 k.c. 416 4 metres 4YA Dunedin.—79o K.c., 379.3 metres 4YO Dunedin.—ll4o k.c. 261 metres

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS “ Speaker,” Roxburgh.—Presumably you wish to use tlie speaker for another set as well. In this case om of the simplest ways of providing for this would be to build the output transformer into the set in each instance, taking the two second-, ary leads to an mtput jack A plug connected to a pair of leads from the voice coil could then be plugged into either jack at will. You could try using the new output transformer with your present set, disregarding the centre-tap and using the entire primary winding. There is bound to be a certain amount, of mls-matching introduced, but if the effect on the tone is negligible, then you will be able to use the same output.transformer for both sets , The only ‘alteration necessary would be to wire .in a five-pin socket in your present set to take the five-pin speaker plug. v ' V » 1 Extension." Wakari.—Take the output transformer oft the speaker and mpunt it either on the chassis or inside the cabinet. Also disconnect the leads . between ■ the secondary of the output transformer and the voice ball, of the speaker. The twin wire extension cable should be fitted in here. •/' . FOR THE LEISURE HOURS An American magazine ...sent out a questionnaire with the object of discerning what people did in their leisure time. “ Listening to the radio ” proved to be the favourite amusement, and it appeared that women were more addicted to this than men, TOO EXPENSIVE? >■: Apparently the Australian: Broadcasting Commission was not willing to pay for the privilege of rebroadcast-: ing the Daventry news bulletins. It was announced daily that these bulletins were available for rebroadcasting by any recognised station in the British Empire, “ except, for the time being, in the Commonwealth of Australia.” THE WORLD’S ORCHESTRAS Few (if any) of the world’s celebrated orchestras are self-supporting, and they are maintained in various ways. In U.S.A. the Philadelphia Symphohie and New York Philharmonic have the deficits made up by wealthy subscribers. The 8.8. C. has its/ quota of licence fees to fall back upon; and in Germany, Austria, _ and most European countries State aid is given, v In Europe many orchestras are State owned, and the leading instrumentalists have the same privileges regarding pensions, insurance, and other benefits as other civil servants. Since broadcasting came into vogue most of the’ State orchestras perform daily, and ih order that the performers shall not be overtaxed the Berlin'State has a foil of about 200 members, who play bn alternate days in turn. • '< * MORE GEMS .“ A post moratorium: showed that death was. due to heart failure.” . “And she finds rest at last, sleeping in the little churchyard and listening to .the bells.” - ■ “A salesgirl-Wanted at . Must ■have good character—until, after Christmas.” •; ■' • -"Mrs ■—-is-84 to-day, and her daughter is having her for dinner.” Appealing for home'for dog: “The dog an Alsatian” and will eat arfything. He is very fond of children." “So you’ve just recovered from the measles, Jack. I’m terribly sorry.” “He was so crooked that if he swallowed a nail he would cough up a corkscrew.”. i;'- - A POWERFUL WEAPON Every day Italy and Germany send out lying broadcasts to millions of listeners in the British Empire . ... this peacetime propaganda beats anything Germany attempted when we were at war with her (says Johnson Brice, In an English journal). Not even during the war did our enemies send out more atrocious, lying, anti-British propaganda than that which Italy and Germany, particularly Italy, have been broadcasting by radio in the native tongues of races under our control during the last year or two. Yet we are supposed to be at peace with these two countries. Designed solely to undermine the British Empire, this vicious. propaganda is directly responsible for the recent troubles in Palestine and India. With the aid of powerful short-wave transmitters, which are able to reach everv part of the globe, they have been broadcasting’ these slanderous lies in an attempt to.:stic.up anti-British feeling throughout the. world. Not content with using ,Italian, „ German, English, French, Spanish, and. Portuguese, they are sending out programmes and comments on world events ’in the chief native tongues spoken. Ih the British Empire. Week after week -you can hear them broadcasting in languages such as Hindustani and Arabic or in dialects such as Zulu. The main theme behind the broadcasts is to “educate” the native races to the disadvantages of living under the “ iron repression and constant cruelty u of England, and to show them how much happier- they would be under the peaceful rule of the Duce or the .Fuhrer. Italy, especially, has been the chief offender in this attempted break-up of-the-Brit-ish Empire. Night after night she has been filling the air with tales of cruelties and atrocities which we are supposed to be inflicting upon the native races. Every minor iisturbance on the frontiers immediately becomes a wide-scale rebellion which requires the slaughter of thousands of innocents before it can be put down These propaganda broadcasts have not been distributed haphazardly, but each has been carefully directed at the part of the Empire which Mussolini wishes to influence. During the Arab riots in Palestine they were sent out at times when most of the set owners would be listening-in. Broadcasting in Arabic, the Duce’s announcers told the Arabs that England was using thousands of gas-filled bombs on their unfortunate countrymen.. In this way 400.000.000 Moslems throughout the world are.being constantly urged to throw off the English yoke and to adopt the Fascist rule in its place The Spanish civil war is also being capitalised by the Duce in an attempt to undermine British influence abroad. According to Rome, the Red Government is being actively supported by Britain, who Is supplying 'hem with most of their munitions and hundreds of first-line bombing aeroplanes. British attempts to evacuate the fugitives in British ships is, to them, only a cover to enable Britain to deliver shiploads of bombs and poison gas. Hitler is not very far behind Mussolini when it comes to foreign broadcast propaganda, although it must be admitted that his attacks are not quite so virulent.