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A Voice from the Banks of the Seine
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the big broadcasting stations throughout the United States were known by name and call letters to thousands of radio fans. From that time on, the "Radiola" concerts have been exceedingly popular with the newly initiated French radio enthusiasts. In France, you do not refer to broadcasting stations by their calls. They have names, such as "Radiola." Besides, there are only a handful of them, so there is not much trouble in telling them apart — and not much interference! The first transmissions took place on a wavelength of 1850 meters, but owing to interference with the military authorities, this wavelength was later reduced to 1760 meters. It has an advantage over the broadcasting on the lower wavelengths which takes place in the United States, in that there is little or no interference from commercial or amateur sources. Whether this wavelength will be permanent or not is a matter of speculation, for broadcasting is not as yet established on a solid basis in France.
The "Radiola" broadcasting station is even yet a decidedly experimental one, according to the statements made bv the men in charge, who
are not willing to give out much information about it until it shall have been proven a permanent installation. The first set .with which they worked stands on one side of the room, neatly caged in, to be used only as an emergency or substitute set, in case the second and newer one, on the other side of the room, should get out of order. A third transmitter is being constructed, destined primarily for experimental work, but which may eventually be the permanent one, Furthermore, as soon as possible the whole broadcasting station is to be moved to another and more open location away from the handicap which they are at present experiencing in the many steel and iron structures surrounding them.
The station arrangement is more or less on the same order as many of the American stations: the studio is in the heart of Paris (79, Boulevard Haussmann), far away from the rest of the transmitting apparatus. The singers, musicians, and speakers in the studio therefore talk through the microphone to the Levallois plant over a wire circuit.
The studio director, M. Gharpentier, himself
THE BROADCASTING STATION AT LEVALLOIS-PERRET The set used at present is seen at the right; on the left is the secondary, or emergency apparatus