NOTES ON WIRELESS.

Wairarapa Age, 31 October 1924, Page 7

NOTES ON WIRELESS.

WONDERFUL ADVANCE. Three short years have ssen a wonderful development in radio broadcasting, says ‘‘ Electra. ’ ’ Beginning with the sending out into the unknown of concerts of reproduced music from, phonographs and playerpianos, the studio work has evolved into something very distinctive, for it is now possible to arrange and produce performances of two and three hours' duration that continue without a break. The better studios put on performances of brass bands, orchestras, instrumental and vocal solos, readings, speeches, and plays. A microphone placed in any theatre, church, or auditorium, and connected by a telephone line to the broadcasting apparatus, enables anyone with a receiving set, tuned to the station, to hear the performance. But the real development of broadcasting will be in the studio itself. Already the drama has been transformed into the radio play, or radario. And besides this, the utility of radio will constantly increase because of its quick transmission, its market reports, and its dissemination of education and culture. Many Uses. The only opinion that anyone conversant with the results now being obtained by wireless investigations would venture is that many developments are probable, and none can be safely dismissed as impossible. A. successful experiment, the perfection of some appliance, some improvement devised in a moment of -inspiration, and the scientist's dream becomes at once a practical working principle. Everyone is familiar with wireless" as applied to telegraphy and telephony, so much so that in the popular vocabulary the word is used to indicate these and nothing more. Yet they represent only two forms of its activities. Many others are in being and in prospect. When Considering possible developments one should keep in mind the marvels already accomplished. Wireless is only in its infancy, and nobody can set limits to what may be done *by its agency. Items. “QST" has received a report of what happened in the Argentine when Braggio put up his record with O'Meara, of Gisborne, N.Z.:—"Senor Braggio's record with New Zealand aroused great enthusiasm, as was to be expected, and he was given an ovation by. radio. . . Shortly before midnight all the principal broadcast stations announced that they were suspending their programmes in order to leave the air free for-the official speech of congratulations which a prominent amateur then made- from his epded with, three cheers, and every amateur in the country (at least, it sounded like that, and I have not met anyone who did not take part) opened up with cheers, applause, bugle salutes, and congratulations to Scnor Braggio. The effect was overwhelming, every wave length from 100 to 500 metres being occupied." At the New Zealand end, O 'Meara was presented with a silver cup suitably inscribed. A Juet with the singers 3000 miles apart was arranged recently. One singer was to be in New York and the other in England, the different broadcasting stations co-operating for the purpose, so that to the listener-in it would sound like an ordinary duet.