this EVENING Captain E. H. Robinson is to tell some stories and experiences of the ranges at Bisley and to discuss the great contest for the King's Prize. He will also be broadcasting a running commentary on the Final for the King's Prize on Saturday, July 21. He has been shooting for over thirty years, has represented England and Great Britain in all the important team events, and he himself won the King's Prize in 1923. Captain Robinson has been interested in wireless since the days before broadcasting, and first saw and handled a radio valve when he was 4,000 feet in the air during the early daysraf the War. He was one of those extraordinary individuals who hung themselves up in sausage-shaped balloons on the end of a long wire and were familiarly known as ' Balloonatics '.
Somebody thought that wireless would be a better way of maintaining communication with the ground than the ordinary wire telephone that ran down the cable and was always giving trouble. A box of tricks was therefore. put into the balloon basket and up they went.
Valves in those days were crious things that. wanted heating every now and then to restore the vacuum and make them work. One of the valves in the magic box having declined to function, the wireless man wanted to strike a match to heat the valve. He was very annoyed when Captain Robinson knocked the box of matches out of his hand and threatened to throw him out. The wireless man was evidently no chemist, and did not realise the danger of 28,000 cubic feet of hydrogen in close proximity to a naked flame.