Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1934 — Page 26

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Take Your Family on World Tour by Radio

Here’s Story of Travel in New Manner Writer Describes Pos- , sibilities Under Ideal Setup . ' A freely drawn picture of what might be accomplished by a dialer tuning an all-wave set during one session of ideal conditions, when all countries in the world and all outposts of civilization are on the air, is presented below. Local conditions would have a direct bearing on your ability to duplicate this program, however. Tour the world by radio and never leave your living room. Sounds incredible, but it cap be done with one of the new globegirdling all-wave 1935 sets. Start with your favorite local station and listen for a bit to American rhythms. Give the dial a twist and move along the standard broadcast channels to New York or San Francisco. Let’s say you start with New York. You’ve traveled a long way already. Get ready to launch yourself afloat, for here we leave land and, with the short W'ave brought into play by a twist of the dial, we board ship afloat on the Atlantic. On to London A couple of wireless operators are chatting. One of your ships is reporting its position. Another is approaching London. You can beat that last ship to London by timing in on Daventry, and one of five stations shown in your log. London, three minutes from home on your dial, via local station, New York, and ships at sea. Let’s skip France for the nonce and tune in ORK in Belgium, tarry r moment and leap on to Geneva, where the League of Nations ponders problems of the world in Switzerland. Then on to Berlin’s stations, DJB, DJD, DJA or DJC, and maybe we can catch Adolf Hitler addressing the Nazi throngs. Perhaps you’ll want to try for a Soviet station next. Tune in RNE, REN or RVS 9. That’s Moskova, or Moscow to you.

Circling Globe Dip down to Cairo, passing over Budapest for a moment, and see if you can find station SUZ or SUV, and then we go round the curves of the globe down the Red sea, across the Indian ocean and if your set is powerful enough you may find yourself listening to the other side of the globe, to station VUB at Bombay, HSP in Bangkok, Siam, or perhaps VUC in Calcutta. If you were to dig a hole clear through the earth right under your chair you might find that hole bringing you back to sunlight at Calcutta. That’s how far away it is. Would you prefer next to go to Australia, say Melbourne or Sydney, with a side trip to Wellington, New Zealand? It’s a bit out of the way for a purely round trip, but these side jaunts are adventuresome, and Australian stations are full of invigorating life of anew .world. But we’ve missed Shanghai in China. Let’s go back to XGW and then move on to JVM or JVN at Tokio or KAY at Manila in the Philippines. Going Fast That ship we heard reporting its position to London isn’t within hundreds of miles of England yet. And here we are ready to pick up Kahuku in the Hawaiian islands. Maybe well hear the lap of the waves on the beach at Waikiki or the strumming of guitars. We had better not take a straight course back home, for then we would completely overlook South America. There's Rio de Janeiro to be visited in Brazil and Bogota in Colombia and Lima in Peru and Buenos Aires in Argentina, and, lest we forget. the Antarctic adventurer still down near the south pole, Admiral Byrd himself. You may get him direct or at least by relay through Hawaii or Buenos Aires. He's an awful long way off down there under everything and everybody. but he has been reached direct from Ohio by a set in the liy-

Chart Graphically Portrays World-Wide Range of New All-Wave Radio Sets

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A graphic portrayal of the wide range of the newr all-wave sets is presented by the above diagram which actually charts the locations of individual stations and the different types of broadcasts that can be received over radio's newest contribution to progress. Though on some

You Can Hear World History in Making Over All-Wave Set Short Bands Are Gateways to International Events While They're Happening . When President Roosevelt first faced the microphone to address the American }>eople over standard broadcast, every hearer thrilled with the realization that he was listening in on history in the making.

Here was the leader of a great nation, using the most modern of media for reaching his constituency direct, to explain his policies so that every man, woman and child might understand. In Europe, too, the leaders of the great nations are saying over the radio the things that will be quoted in the history books of tomorrow. What is more, during these days of complicated international relations, foreign countries are taking to the short wave with its ability to travel greater distance, to convey their ideals and aspirations to other countries on the globe. Special Broadcasts Germany, England and Japan are particularly active in this endeavor, directing their broadcast particularly so that the United States may hear them. And in those countries where the language is not English, special programs in English are prepared. The importance of radio in international affairs was strikingly emphasized during the Nazi revolt in Austria. Plotters against the governments of other days may have made their first bloody attacks upon a palace or a parliament building, but those ing room of at ler.st one home that w ; e know of. That was a night of adventure, when Byrd's short wave w r as to be rebroadcast by a standard broadcasting chain. We heard them hook up the broadcast, Byrd's short-wave operator chatting with his relay stations and New York until the actual signal for the beginning of the broadcast was given. Well, let's get back home and find out what's going on in America. It might be time for one of our favorite radio entertainers. Just switch back to standard broadcast and pick him up. Great session, wasn't it? Went round the world and never left the living room,

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in Vienna made their first attack upon a broadcasting station. From that station was sent out first word that world-shaking events were being made in Austria that day with the assassination of a chancellor. riot so long ago, history was something to read. Now it is something to hear with our own ears. Vatican On the Air Adolph Hitler, leader of all the German people, goes on the radio often. Mussolini, the dictator of Italy, does, too. Vatican City, the home of the pope of the Catholic church, maintains its owm short-wave broadcasting station. When King George of England wants to talk to his far-flung subjects of the British empire, short wave is brought into play. It is because of such things as these that the all-wave radio of 1935 is looked upon as an instrument which will revolutionize the industry and in itself make history because of its ability to get foreign stations as well as domestic standard broadcast. POLICE EXPERIMENT Boston is experimenting with a two-way short-wave system for its police department with one prowl car already equipped to talk back to headquarters. The experimentation is being carried out with the aid of General Electric engineers. The installation of a short-wave transmitter in the prowl car has been carried out without any visible evidence of the car's ability to converse with police headquarters. HERE’S SURPRISE Chief surprise of the recent broadcasters’ convention at Cincinnati was failure of a single speaker to mention television once during the sessions, obotiveis xeport,

of the all-wave sets the entire dial is visible as charted above, other sets are designed to bring before the eyes only the band which happens to be in use at the moment. Regardless of the type of dial, however, the station chart above is one of the best short-wave charts yet devised for the information of radio fans.

Radio Diet One rado manufacturer has brought out a device for preselecting your radio diet for the day. It is a control which automatically turns the radio on and off and tunes in different stations at different times in accordance with wiiat you have decided you want to hear during the period of time covered. Just set it in advance and forget about it. TTie device will do the rest of the work for you.

Radio Telephony Achieves Privacy Popularity of the new all-w’ave radio sets has prompted the question, how can people who use radio telephony be assured of privacy in their conversations? Though some of the all-w’ave stes are capable of picking up the radio telephony conversation between ship and shore and between different countries, it will come through those sets as so much hashed sound. Not because of any fault in the receiving set but because the precaution has been taken through the development of the speech inverter, to scramble conversation over radio telephony in a manner that can permit of its being unscrambled only by a receiving station specially designed for that purpose. Thus is privacy achieved.

Two-Way Antenna A re. Recommended Specially designed antenna combining the best features for the reception of round-the-world shortwave broadcast and commercial domestic broadcast, are being rec-ommended-by makers of the 1935 globe-girdling radios as productive of the best results for the new mode).-' The double antenna become instrumental in reducing the air noises which for so long a time hampered the popular development of short-wave radio reception. One part of the new ? antenna is for short-wave bands, the other with the broadcast, and a flick of the swritch brings the most efficient into operation. •

-OCT. 17, 1934

Check Advised for Your Radio Service Experts Urge Inspection . Despite the fact that the radio industry has developed an instrument as nearly foolproof as an electrical device can be, recognized radio dealers recommend an occasional inspection just to insure the maintenance of uniformly good reception. Most every one knows, or has had experience with radios which were attached to their aerials the moment they came from the store, plugged into the electric socket, and have never given any trouble after that. Such performance is common with only the occasional replacement of a tube necessary to keep the set performing properly year after year. Nevertheless, like a motor car, the radio deserves an occasional inspection. And for that purpose, major dealers maintain highly-skilled service staffs made up of men who keep abreast of the rapid progress in radio, men who are experts in their field, who know 7 the ills of a radio as intimately and professionally as the doctor knows the ailments of a human body. Radio service men form almost a profession. There is a radio service men’s organization at meetings of which latest developments in radio are discussed and clinics on inspection and repair are held. Don't condemn a set because you are not satisfied with its performance. Have a sendee man check it for you. AIDS MORALE Civilian Conservation Corps camps have taken advantage of the free communication afforded by amateur radios. Many amateur operators are in the 14,000 camps. The communication is credited by officers with having done much to aid the morale of the boys. INSPECT SET Occasional inspection of sets over long periods of time is suggested as a safeguard against that embarrassing moment when a swell program is lost. Sendee men can check i your radio right in your home.