METROPOLITAN POLICE RADIO.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18203, 2 March 1929, Page 16

METROPOLITAN POLICE RADIO.

New York's police stations have 105 receivers, all set to thy municip.il station’s wavelength (WNYC—S26 meters), which will be kept constantly turned on for reception. Should a.i emergency require police use of the system, a broadcast may be interrupted, just as by an SOS, if necessary to send out the announcement of a crime. T •«- reception system was purchased some time ago, but is just being installed. WRONG NUMBER! Port Au Prince sounds something like Bordeaux, France, and the Haitian station HHK announces in French. Many fans have written that they have heard Bordeaux, and this may explain to some others why they have failed to obtain verifications from the French city. Reception froiu tHK, which is in the West Indies, about 1,500 miles south of New York, has been very good all over the East. EAST INDIAN RADIO. The Dutch Colonial gocernment has removed the restriction, hitherto preventing the ownership of radio sets and licenses their possession in the East Indies. It does not appear that transmitting is permitted. LONGEST “WIRED WIRELESS." The 220,000-volt high-tension power lines of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co., over a distance of 202 miles, are now linked by carrier-current telephony A 1,000-watt transmitter is used for Jie purpose, coupled to the power wires by an 1,800-foot aerial. The cystem is in use solely for communication between the powerhouse at Pitt River, and the Vaca-Dixon sub-station. Special osedating microphones are used for calling the operators. LINKING PLANE AND HOME. Now that radio telephony from trains is on a commercial basis, in Germany at least, the U.S. Bureau of uindards announces that it is working on a system whereby a radiophone message from an airplane may be connected up with the long-distance wires. FAN OBTAINS 2,000 DOLLAR VERDICT. Peter J. Walter, of Milwaukee, was awarded a verdict for heavy damages against the lighting and traction company,. for erecting near his home a nigh-fension line which prevented reception on his radio set. The case has been fought through the state courts, and is now expected to go to the federal supreme court for final affirmation. The case is legally unique. STATION IN MOURNING. The death of Mayor Edward L. Bader of Atlantic City caused the programmes of the municipal broadcast station. WPG, to be put in mourning by the city administration. During the period before the funeral, the dance music numbers were deleted from the programmes.