Wireless-World-1956

Mahn 3IJJJJ ELECTRON ICS, RADIO, TELEVISION Managing Editor: HUGH S. POCOCK, N1.I.E.E. Editor: H. F. SMITH MAY 1956 Assistant Editor: F. L. DEVEREUX, e.cc. Iss is Issue Editorial Comment .. .. .. 201 World of Wireless .. .. 202 Two - Channel Stereophonic Sound Systems F. H. Brittain and D. M. Leakey 206 Transistor Digital Computers .. 210 Letters to the Editor .. .. 213 Reproduction from Magnetic Tape Records M. B. Martin and D. L. A. Smith 215 Frequency Stabilization of Oscillators .. .. V. N. Gray 219 Further Notes on the Simplified Band III Convertor O. E. Dzierzynski 221 I.T.A. Midlands Relay .. 223 Commercial Literature .. 226 Television Receiver Input Impedance .. .. J. E. Hopkins 227 Monitoring Sound Broadcast Programmes .. T. Somerville 228 Colour Television in the United States 231 Reliability in Equipment . E. G. Rowe 232 Short-Wave Conditions .. 234 Heads, Tails and Noise .. " Cathode Ray " 235 More Lines Instead of Colour D. A. Bell 239 VOLUME 62 NO. 5 Manufacturers' Products 241 PRICE: TWO SHILLINGS Television in Germany .. W. Nestel 242 New Magnetic Materials 247 FORTY -SIXTH YEAR Random Radiations " Diallist " 248 OF PUBLICATION Unbiased .. .. " Free Grid" 250 PUBLISHED MONTHLY (4th Tuesday of preceding month) by ILIFFE ds SONS LTD., Dor:et Home. Stamford Street, London, S.E.1. 21 12s. 6d. Telephone: Waterloo 8888 (60 lines). Telegrams: " Ethaworld, Sedist. London." Annual Subscription: Home and Overseas, Midland 7191. U.S.A. and Canada $5.00. BRANCH OFFICES: BIRMINGHAM: King Edward House New Street, 2 Telephone: , Central 1203. COVENTRY: 8 -10, Corporation Street. Telephone: Coventry 5210. GLASGOW: 26a, Rendeld Streè C.2. Telephone: MANCHESTER: 260, Deansgate, 3. Telephone: Blackfriars 4412. OVERSEAS OFFICES: U.S.A.: 111, Broadway, New 2. Telephone: Walnut 1.5631. York, G. N.Y. Telephone: Digby 0-1197. CANADA: 74, College Street. Toronto Ontario. www.americanradiohistory.com 82 WIRELESS WORLD MAY, 1956 NN. IN AUDIO AMPLIFIERS (Part One) ,N The best known and most practical application of tran- to base. Hence the base input current is reduced, and sistors is in low power audio amplifiers. For example, the collector current tends to return to its correct value. about 90% of the hearing aids made commercially in The high d.c. stability of the potential divider this country at the present time are transistorised. Al- arrangement is obtained at the expense of slightly though the design of hearing aid circuits is somewhat higher drain on the battery because of the shunting specialised, the circuit shown here illustrates many of of R9 + R10. With this arrangement the base the basic principles of transistor amplifier design. current can be reversed into the positive direction, High gain is obtained by operating the transistors in when the corresponding values of collector current the grounded emitter connection, that is, with the are less than I'c(o); if the process is taken far enough, emitter common to the input and output circuits. The Ic can be made to approach nearly to Ie(o). Here I'e(o) is a.c. input is applied between base (b) and emitter (e), the value of le when the base is open circuit (Ib =O). and the output current flows between emitter and It is related to the diode reverse current I«o) flowing collector (c). A d.c. base current has to be provided to in the grounded base circuit with the emitter open bias the transistor to the chosen working point. The circuit (Ie =0) by the current gain of the transistor simplest method is to take the base bias from the h.t. appropriate to this low level operation. line by a series resistor. If the method is applied to the Other features of the circuit require only brief third 0070 in the circuit, RIO has to be omitted and a mention. R8 and R12 are bypassed for d.c. stabilisa- new value given to R9. However, some form of d.c. tion, and while R4 is not bypassed, there is no loss of stabilisation is normally included in all audio amplifier a.c. gain as the input is applied between base and stages, since the collector current is dependent on emitter. A value of 8 or 10[A.F is typical for the coup- current gain and the very tem- perature- sensitive collector leakage current I' co). The simplest method of prov- iding some d.c. stabilisation of the working point is shown for the 0071 output stage. The bias resistor R13 is connected to the collector instead of to the h.t. line. When the collector current is higher than its correct value for the d.c. working point, the base current is reduced because of the fall in collector voltage, so that the collector current automatically tends to return to its correct value. More effective d.c. stabilisation is provided by an ling capacitors. The first 0070 provides an input emitter resistor and potential divider arrangement such impedance of lkS2 which matches the microphone as R9 -R10. The current through R9 is greater than and is not appreciably shunted by resistors of the that through R 10, the difference being the base current values shown for R2 and R3. Negative feedback which flows from + to - out of the transistor. When (12dB) is applied over three stages from R14, and the collector current is higher than the required value, for maximum undistorted output the value of R13 the increased voltage drop across the bypassed emitter is chosen to match the oc' of the 0071 such that resistor R12 leaves less voltage available from emitter R13 =a'RL. This advertisement WILL NOT be available in reprint form T.S.D. DATA and PUBLICATIONS SECTION, MULLARD LTD., CENTURY HOUSE, SHAFTESBURY AVE., LONDON, W.C.2 MVM 15I www.americanradiohistory.com MAY 1 9 5 6 Wireless World vol. 62 No. 5 Sound in Width and Depth ALTHOUGH the principle of stereophonic sound accounts for the absence of the word " height " reproduction has been a subject for discussion from the title of this comment), or foolproof. among technicians for a lifetime, and has been Occasionally some incongruous, not to say bizarre, demonstrated at intervals since the latter half of effects can be produced, such as fluctuations in the the last century, it is only recently that it has apparent size of instruments according to the become a matter of common experience -as a side- register in which they happen to be played. There show at exhibitions, in the cinema and even as a are also wide divergencies between different medium for concert hall performance. systems in their tolerance to movement on the part The advent of first -class commercial twin -track of the listener. The heaviest responsibility rests records enables those who can afford the necessary with the recording engineer and the studio equipment to enjoy a new listening experience in manager in seeing that the information recorded the home which goes far beyond the " three - on the tape tracks is unambiguous and reasonably dimensional " diffusion of sound from a single - proof against the sort of maladjustments which channel source. The use of paralleled multiple may be expected to occur from time to time at loudspeakers with divergent axes in conjunction the reproducing end. with acoustic reflectors and diffusers offers scope The creation of an illusion of reality in repro- for endless experiment and is capable of giving duced sound depends ultimately on the validity of " atmosphere" and many pleasing effects which the listener's mental imagery and on his sub- are absent from a small single-cone loudspeaker in conscious ability to reconcile what he now hears a simple mounting. Elementary movement of the with his stored experience of original sounds. apparent source can be effected by the simple Since exact reproduction of the original sound field expedient of " pot- panning " in which panoramic is impossible, the most to be expected of a sound movement of the sound is caused by increasing the reproducing system is that it shall fire the imagina- volume of sound in one loudspeaker at the expense tion and not introduce any recognizable of another through the medium of a potential incongruity. divider which may be manually or electronically By this criterion a single -channel system may controlled. All such methods may be con- prove to be the better for some kinds of sound veniently classed as " pseudo-stereophony" even source; the speaking voice, for example, or a solo though the results in many cases are far from instrument such as the guitar recorded without deserving the derogation implied by the term. reverberation at the source with the object of We would admit as stereophonic any system reproducing it with only the acoustic environment which makes an analysis of the sound field at the of the listening room. We have heard examples of source into two or more channels and uses the this technique, of which C. E. Watts is a recog- information in these channels to reconstitute those nized exponent, that create a perfect illusion that the elements in the original sound which are essential performance is in the room. Remarkable results to realism. A successful stereophonic system are frequently achieved by the B.B.C. through provides more than the obvious effects of move- their single -channel sound broadcasting system in ment and life and is characterized by a subtle giving an illusion of auditory depth by skilful clarity and definition which is sustained at all variation and control of the ratio of direct to volume levels within the capacity of the repro- reverberant sound at the microphones. ducing equipment. Clearly the choice of method must rest primarily Many diverse systems have been proposed and with the material to be reproduced.

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