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Tiadio Times, Navembor 4, 1927. Bonuthern Balen, PROGRAMMES FOR ARMISTICE DAY(See pages 264-265 )e > ee Vy ie- S ~ APEROCLN ys ate 2S CUNDEE earn (Silas! == CN Foraoey L cos LaeeAY we WORTLee, oathonsa nie " =the booms fy LEPOS- se. 0F0eo AU fe heros OO imta awd fara ay | Sana CHESTER eee te gor FING Has a cami2 Soran ee! [etcace py a a AAAIGRA ala SoAhe CHapre [Roa LOAhy! |The Journal of the British Broadcasting Corporation. a =———— feisheredd fl Uta | NOVEMBER41927. Every Friday. Two Pence. Vol. 17. No, 214. lara. oh Ne vepeperr. ee The Regional Scheme, IV. The Problem of Sites. The f i r s t fierce. articiéS tn this series vernenced by a supcrabundance of radiation, ever, it 15 necessary to take into account appeared tn ‘Lie Radio J imes jor Ootk Wher There are other difficulties too numerous to the effect of the natural features of the sur- TA, 21 and 28. “and dealt with| ihe r i l e y mention, and so the site for the transmitter rotinding country in the immediate neighbour- ae ie Fo ooh POES AYr is Gi / F ite bref scat Che wie, f he has to be found in the open country. Since hood of the proposed-transmutter,. This can a a ie | edo yess yap «dm ew te ore Sara hay a t i ‘Gy distribu on ty higher power, and the power of the stations nawunder considera- | only be investigated by practical experi- fhe sxperiinents whtch are being made with 5GB. tion will be high compared with’ the-power ments. The essential problem is whether a AST week a description was given of -of existing stations, the difficulty af unequal transmitter-located at a certain pomt which investigations and measurements distribution is greatly reduced but ‘the site appears to be ideal will give. a symmetrical which “are being made inorder to distnbution of energy in all directions: Tihas complete the design of the proposed new information must ‘be obtained’ fefore the system of..distribution by, fewer stations of station is built. In order that there should higher power. be no avoidable doubt ‘on this point; a mobile Assuming that a certain district such as wireless: tiansmitter, complete. with masts, has been installed in a lorry... The masts London has been chosen for the station, the question naturally arises where exactly should can be erected and dismantled in bess than an hour.- The “apparatus is capable. of the station be built? It should be understood that bythe word station 1 meant the trans- radiating as much energy as that of 21.0). mitter, and not the building contaiming the The unmodulated carrier wave of this studios and administrative offices, mobile transmyrtter is just as effective for Existing stations are situated inside the the purpose as would be the emission froni boundaries of cities or large towns, with the a complete broadeast transmitter, —°¥ exception af 5X.% and 5GB, which are within Tt has already been mentioned that a afew hundred yards of each other on Borough motor-van equipped with apparatus for Hill, near Daventry. When considering measuring broaccast energy. available’ at medium or low-powered stations, it is almost any pomt is engaged in examining the essential‘to place them as close as possible service given by 5G. This travelling to the centre ‘ofthe most important town receiver, working in conjunction with. the they are intended to: serve. -1f placed a few mobile transmitter, will. be able to provide an accurate forecast of. the suitability of miles outside, listeners’ on the transmitter UNRECOGNIZED HERGES. side of the town will recerve astrong service— any site considered satisfactory from other 4, The Eminent Scientist wha found hiraselt perhe pe even too strong to he conventent— points of view. : in the wrong 5 tuelia, but on the opposite side the service will te There are a fair number of other considera- weak, Of course, the larger the city; ‘the has to be most carefully chosen so that the tions to. be taken into account, but it may greater this difficulty, becomes, When. plan- service pives the maximum. benefit to the be of interest to mention one or two of the ning a high-powered station it is evident that maximum number of listeners. In malang more outstanding conditions which nimst be it cannot be situated in a congested district « this choice, the experience gained with 5G satished before a proposed site can be can- the space taken up by an eflicient aerial will be of the greatest assistance, and dhe per- sitlered satisiactory, It must be possible to system is considerable—a matter “of several formance of a proposed station can be-pre- obtain a considerable supply-of water. The -acres—and the cost of a suitable site weuld dicted in terms of definite ligures represent- sub-soil mutt be suitable, for the foundations be prohibitive, Again, listeners living under ing the service available at any pomty — of heavy machinery, while the grounditself the shadow “of the aerial may: -be incon- Before this-can be done accurately, hew- must be-as-level as possible, s RADIO TIMES -—— iNovemnen 4, 1927. po = en = - = — The Man Behind the Music. Peter Tchaikovsky—Died November 6, 1893. T hes taken the thirty-four years which have | oonen werk Hp. So elaborate and maseive a scab, he Went i luneh Wit Ti Brodsky. tim ently ine tha } passe over our heals for ps fully fo appreniaie Tehnikeveky had no real love for lavish surround- house he heard atrieitis of mls Don mice fri, the Hil that he did, and even now many of his works ings. He would never have dreamed of spending drawing-room. ** Brahms,” he said to amine ‘Ld his operac, notably—are littl known outside his | his life, tike Chopin, LaisKkk, oT mee lanlin, in the he aacended the stairs, On enterTe the noom he nitive Bageio, Uf owe deol hehind the music at the constant society of fashionable friemds, His own sioner! (an Htrodek ¥ Tey he bop, anc. crit down. Et man hinwself; it will he to find that, bike Glock, idesa—realized in his latter years—merely extended did not need a second flance to tell him who was at Verdi, and not a few othera, Peter Tchakovaky ton quiet house in the country where he could work the Pane, lt w oat Brohme himself, dressed in -n | wos not originally intended to be a musician at all, tniclistorbed, He wasneverin any aenae a wirhiose + heavy-looking frock coat—looking like a priest, His father waa a mining eveineer whose outlook indeed, there ia no evidenco that he was a prent ichatkoveky subsequently remarked, Bot ho} upon art does not seem fo have boon of the lex performer -at all, He did? not even comluct in ecema bo haye bev very Pleased with Brahms, who y aid jt is perfectly certain that there was nob ¢ public until he was forty-seven, and then only in went out of hime way to-be charming to him, At b ereat deal to attract a lad of Peter's seasick Micwercvn. lunch Tehakovsky became interested in another man whom he desoribes as being short, middle-aged, - anc disposition at- the Ba Fiche il ca EE‘pruckence Tehaikoveky Wis net ih. happy hit. Hik hasty which he whtended, But the Conservatoire offered marriage, which had auch unhappy consequences, fragile in appearance, with shoulders of cmequal f much more in.the wey of art, and it was not a little told greathy upon his resery 6 power, At one height, and witha quantity of fair hair poshed back SP from # broad brow, After awhile Brodsky came fortunate that Rolinsiein waa taking classes in period in hie fife his misery wee 20 preal that in a harmony and composition. ‘Tchaikovsky, there- fit of utter distraction and despair he stood up to over to him. * Leb-me-introdues ou,” he saad. fore, contrived to devote puch spare time aa hia |} hia chest in the Moskva River—in ice-cold water on ‘Thisis Greg.” The Riksianfound the Norwegin duties would admit-—they were at the Ministry of a litter night in September—hoping that he might and his wife—particolarly the latter, seemingly dustice, where he beld o dull kind of post—and catch his death of cold. Deliberately to take his mist agreeable companions. At all. events, he em began to study the art of counterpoint. Rubim- life he dered not, but there is little doubt that had writes enthusiastically of them m bia diary. But tiem wie not long before he discover that the it ok been for hig brother, whe took him under such enjoyments seem to have been few and far exerciens which Tchaikovsky worked for him were his care, the experiment might have been repeated, between, ‘Tchaikovaky waa, often enough, a add of an except ional charneter, Ome day after tlaka Writing from Switeerland. a little later, he saya sonl. His “Pathetic” Symphony is a. pathetic | be called Tebaikovsky to him and told him quite * Living amid wonderful scenery, mv heart longs atory of- pathetic cirenmetanece. Tf woe find him i plainly that it was absolutely wbsurd for hin to: | trying to disguise the fact in the first themes; if undividedly for my dear native land. Had I ti think of devoting hie-life ta Russian law. * There | we find him hastily breehing away the bears in the stayed another day-in Moscow I might have lost are plenty who can do that,’ he said: * you must my reason and drowned myself in the waves of the ‘ five-four more rent :: if we find him bravein the fat your pifte” And ao the.