WIRELESS NOVELTY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16176, 12 July 1923, Page 9

WIRELESS NOVELTY.

RECEIVING INSTRUMENT FOR WAISTCOAT POCKET. TESTS IN C Hit ISTCH URCH. (Special to (he Iferahl.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A receiving set small enough t-o be car - ried in the waistcoat pocket is the latest wireless novelty. This little instrument. measuring only four inches by two and o quarter, has recently been received from America by Mr. A’. J. Dncombe, who showed it to a Star reporter. It is capable, lie stated, of doing remarkabl • things, and he had had some astonishing results. A couple of wires strung ir side the hood of a car will suffice, or lh> pedestrian can make use of an aerial sufficiently small to be carried without any bother. Armed with such an Instrument-, th: traveller can keep in touch with any broadcasting stations in the locality. The apparatus, in some experiments he bad conducted with a view to test its etjjcacy, proved that an amateur cno hear commercial stations hundreds < ( miles away, while wireless telephone messages can he received wfyhiti th.? radius of his own district. It has been demonstrated that one of these tiny instruments can pick up 'in Christehure l messages sent from Auckland. 7’ho great virtue of the instrument is the variety of conditions under which it. can he used. It can lie attached i > a motor car or bicycle, or simply carried iff the pocket. ijts requirements in 11.■« wav of aerial are as modest as its ovt :,i dimensions. It makes the idea of wireless facilities at-Hie end of one’s watchchain scent very near.