WAVELETS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18617, 12 July 1930, Page 14

WAVELETS.

Konigswusterhaussen is the world's “longest” short-wave station. Its location needless to state, is Germany, and its wave-length Is 31.88 metres. 2YA has been busy this week. On Tuesday and Thursday the station was on the air announcing results of the races at Trentham. On Wednesday (usually Its silent day) It ran two special sessions to give a relay of the pontifical mass at the Basilica, and to broadcast a description of the MaoriBritish match.

pay for it. It is stated that the service to one group of Australian station, for accounts of the Test, will cast £3OOO. By tapping the air on the last day of the Lords test, the “Herald” was enabled to give its readers a much later state of the game than was available by the cable service.

A moving-coil loud-speaker is to be installed in the church tower of a small village in Cornwall, England. The church bells have not rung for thirty years, the cost of re-h&nging having proved prohibitive, but the difficulty is now to be overcome by reproducing church bell gramophone records by means of a pick-up. The church already possesses a radio-

gramophone for reproducing organ music and special relayed sermons.

Monday night listeners to 2BL are inquiring what has become of John Pesek and his back slam, rough Jim Browning, Ad and other wellknown grapplers. Pesek broke a collarbone in the States, and is not able to fulfill his contract for a return season in Australia. Just now Howard Canton wine (an ex-Yale footballer) and Pat McGill are the standing dish at Sydney Stadium. McGill has a specialty with which he traps his opponent into an aeroplane spin and a dump to the mat.

As the Soviet authorities through the powerful Moscow' Trades’ Unions transmitter have been broadcasting Anti-Rumanian propaganda, the latter Government has decided to put up a “jamming” station with a view to making the Russian talks different to receive. This interfering signal will be sent out on 938 metres and will be maintained so long as the Moscow transmitter persists in sending out revolutionary speeches in the Rumanian language.

The Professional Musicians’ Orchestra, 55 strong, will be on the air through 2FC to-night. This is a clever Combination of instrumentalists thrown out of work by the talkies. On Tuesday last 2FC broadcast two scenes from “The Merchant of Venice.” produced by the well-known actor, Arthur Greinaw'ay.

The desire for increased power in transmitters is becoming more and more marked. Three years ago a 5000watt transmitter w r as a high light in the radio firmament. To-day it is a star of very small magnitude, for Britain has its 30 kilowatt plants. America its 100-kilowatt and several 50kiiowatt stations, with application now made for tw r o additional ones of the latterpporer,w r er, and Australia has let contracts for the stepping up of some, if not all, of its main stations. Yet it seems only a few 7 months ago that 2YA was being boomed as the second highest pow 7 ered station In the Empire. Transmitters, it would appear, are like battleships—they soon become obsolete.

The cricket service established by station 2UW. Sydney, during the Test matches created exceptional interest. For the whole four days of the match this station remained on the air for a total of 15 hours a day. The excellence of the Australian service in catering for the cricket public shows the extent to w 7 hich broadcasting can benefit the general public, provided those in control of it are prepared to

IMMACULATE MAHOGANY. Polished furniture is all the better for an occasional special washing, but soap and water must not be used except for stained and cheap furniture. Do not make the cloth too w r et, and dry and repolish quickly. Mahogany can be washed now 7 and again with vinegar and w ? ater and cold tea, walnut with a piece of flannel dipped in paraffin, and cak wuth warm beer. This improves its colour. When washing carved furniture use two brushes for the crevices, one wet and one dry—a couple of discarded tootnbrushes do very well for the job.