The talking machine world (July-Dec 1928)

The Talking Machine World, New York, December, 1928 41 Unusual Stromberg-Carlson Installation Made on Yacht No. 633 Receiver and Phonograph Equipment Installed on Onaire II, Yacht of Walter Todd — Receiver Is Built Into Wall With Speaker Mounted Face Downward sway back and forth. Consequently the aerial wire was run up through the center of the main spar. This spar being hollow for the passage of ropes to the mast head, allows an ideal vertical antenna to be had. There is a thought in this for dealers located near yacht clubs. It is a good market for radio sets. Inasmuch as a yacht is a home on the water, it is not hard to understand how the radio receiver has enjoyed an ever-increasing popularity as a part of yacht furnishings. Boats that are large enough to erect a good antenna, as a rule, are provided with exceptionally fine entertainment, inasmuch as there are no obstruc:ions to shield the radio waves, and in sailing vessels there is none of the electrical disturbance which often makes reception difficult for the city dweller. The Stromberg-Carlson Co. has made a great number of such marine in>tallations in recent months. One of the newest is that which has been made in the 68-foot yacht of Walter Todd, of Rochester, New York. Mr. Todd is vice-president and general manager of the Todd Co., of Rochester, known the world over as manufacturer of Todd protectographs and safety checkpaper. The yacht has accommodations for ten people, a crew of three and seven passengers. The Onaire II, as the yacht has been christened, is equipped with a Stromberg-Carlson No. 633 receiver and phonograph equipment from the Stromberg-Carlson No. 744 instrument in order that both radio and record reproduction may be had. Space, of course, is always limited in a yacht, and everything must be made immovable in order that rough weather will not disturb the interior of the cabin. Consequently, the receiving set was built into the wall of the cabin, as shown in the illustration. The loud speaker is mounted with its face downward from the ceiling. The phonograph equipment is built into the other corner of the cabin, the wire from the magnetic pick-up running be' neath the floor to the receiving set to give Satisfactory Television Is Still Far in Future / 1 / £5^ The fourth of the series of articles on television being issued by the Radio Manufacturers Association deals with conditions in this country and abroad, and states that experts on both continents are agreed that television is a laboratory development for skillful and experienced experimenters. Its possibilities on a small scale have been proven, but television receivers for the home, giving entertainment comparable with even the earliest radio receivers, is so far in the future that no scientist of reputation is willing to admit the probability of such result'. The United States Radio Commission permits experimental television broadcasts under definite limitations, but the British Broadcasting Corp., in control of all broadcasting in the British Isles, refuses to undertake or permit experimental transmission. Radio-Phono Installation on Todd Yacht phonograph records electrical reproductionThe receiving set is battery-operated, and runs off the yacht's power plant. Being a sailing vessel, there is no motor noise to disturb radio reception, while the yacht is in motion. There are two keys on the radio, one connecting it with the phonograph, and the other cutting in a loud speaker, located on deck. A rather ingenious antenna arrangement has been made. 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