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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1925, Page 8

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JEW WIRELESS REGULATIONS.! i :O BE GAZETTED NEST WEEK. ' IMI-fIITAST HKVF.LOPMEKTS j J. Xl'!.' TKl>. j, I Now Zva'tiiiA is probably on thp e\o I ini|N.ri«u( developments in radio. For] lnr.2 lime the business lies bfnn largely . irlil up pernling the dpvplopnipnt of the , ii.MTiin.ciit'- wlipmn iif broaden jtinj!! i .in rwn -----i«i. tln- present, drawbacks! ]~-r.- arc I-.."- something like tiirce |~.I IHUI. | in Aiicklnn-I. The ..■■v icgulaf iniis p..v.-n>iug broadrasting ! 1,,.,,1.1 1..- ■_-.. ?r-t ~-.) in :l,r rm.r.-f ot t)..----,,-m »»1, i.i- ft-u da\ -. and the vvoik uf .-t.-.!.!..-!iinp i....i.- powerful slot ion* en , j., ~,,.)ii li.-i-i»' .Mo then 1.0 under- ' nk- n without ilplav. A i-tri.nj! com- j pjM-o. wiili 1,e.-i.l<,u«rt.-r- at Wellington. ..i.! undertake the «-..rli of floating thr , ■•mi rolling n.mpany. fl»d "ill requisition lip innr-liiiirrv wliii'-h i> now in roadines.* \ ;. r Lreadcasiiujj developments. ! h,. ,-ompanv if to have a capital of , \ i.-j«».fiOii. ~f u),i,l> i.iu.noo will be allocated ; in i.vilni.n y ilri.ftilure* nml £;n,«VI in j tl i',i«ir=. li j- estimated that, each of' ill.' four liigli-p'vw'T nations to orcpiod iii til*- li.iiniiiioii will c-opt in tlif virlniiy !■! t7i*li) miii £jsiiOii. au>l it i-< rjiiiic [irolialilr lh»t liir unnutil mnintpiiHive i-x|.i liM-s "ill I" , lioarly £2000 npifiv. \c-niilinj; fn liic rstimatps all four -sal i..iii -h.miil l.n ill fiporation ponif siv (o r-ijilit iiirmtlis iit'tpv llir- in-i-i.|.tirm of I lie i-niiipjiny. 5..%..r»l r...1i.. i-\prrt* in AiK-kUmi β-crf :i-ko.l to ilny aliout thr pxistiiiß riiuHlion in AurkUml: and they nil ox-pi-rtpfl inipnrtiiMl rhnnKPH >- a rosuli '.f li,,- i;,,ipn m> iiriii.,,. Thounli Mr. I-:. \. Sliriinjitnn. ilu- i-liipf fplpprsjih on-piiu-or, 1,H.1 li.i i-.,nKiiiHor| it was ciMUMiiliy ihnt iir wo* in fn\our of ailojiiinp pnntiniinii* wavp, or intPiTUptPil rriiitinuni:.- navn, trniiF n:ittfr>; of n-prnlnting .-uhsi.liso.l hmail-ra-ung station!", opprating on tIK- ussisl si-lipdnlr if vra'ljfr. n:arkr j t liTtnrrs. news and itoms; an.) of rpplflpinft tlip prPSPiH Inv.jwmcrpd station? by liigh■ powcrrd Matirm , . Great Power Increase. 1,-ni ami irally hipli■■•!«.-? Inoad.a.oting ilirmi S bo.ii .W.v Th« n'l.n. pour-r .., approximatPly Iftnn Jill*, whirl) \f Hi...in six I imp? tlir■r.nri n.-r-.-l by thr pre.-Piit Aurkland :rr-arirasiiiiE ftaijon, B'lmittrdly tlip nnpi pffirirnt. npprntinj; in Now zValand :■• day. At prpspij - . amatPtirv pay an animal irni>r tfp of only '<' anrl ir i.- on irrount of ii.-p rmallnpM of thr rr.p.nuo, ill cf whirli if rrtainiHl hy tlip Governnipiii. tha , liroadra.~tinff i? not on a irttrr frioti.ijr. Tlip existing ftatione )rp in all raws siipportp.l pnttrply hy ihn trailp, and it i? not. rralisci that ;rrai f\pi>n?r j? invnlvpd in maintaining; low-powrr hronf]ra?tinp ftaticn?. I'ndpr t!|p nrw rppulat.ionp amateurs or ■ liFtrnir? in will have to pay a fee of j J7 'Ti or 30/, three quarters of whirh wiU , be handed over to tbr hroadrast.ing com- ! pany to pay for and npki>rp. Ihf broadru?ling rnmpany int".nd.» to pnnnrrt, up tbe principal theatres and the Town Hall of each centre with the traiifniiitjng stations. The (lr?t. f-tep to bo taken by th" hroadcastinfr company, once formed, is* lo take over, where practicable, the raining broadcasting station* a.nd immediately increase the power and improve thr general quality of the transmi**ion=. "The public have not b«rn educated •n recognise their need of radio,'' war tlip comment of .Mr. G. Kitzrny Lovnll. an Auckland radio exper;.* to-day Hi- «r« fiitipfipd that then? was "a prcat future for radio in New Zealand "This country rank-, third in the world in regard the percentage of telephone; to the population, iind that, seems tc point inevitably to :i preat. development in ivirrW*." ' He had followed radic ~.-i.'ni ■• hini-clf for the past nineteer real-, and l.ud one of the first sets ir Auckland. That mi, in WO7, when β-nii a rhiiii! i-et up a transmitting re..pivi.i_- s-talinn at (ire.r T.ynn. thre< luiiidip.) ynnls aparu They usi-d a raor« steel nlii'cl coherer, a< the rrysta deter' >r diJ nM a]i|ie;ir here until sonu yi-ars later; and no lii.-cnsn was rei-juired Cannot Receive New Zealand Music. From all pmts ( ,{ ihe Aurklant prnvin.e romplaints liavi- hocn heard o interference by- evunmoreial (.trttion?. of owner? of rr-enivinjj snt? beiup unable to receive N'e-.r Zealand nmsii , in ft satis-f.if-tory manner, particularly on account ot tiie low power of the broadcasting station? and the frequent interrupiions. At the present, time nightly concert? nr" sent, i.iit on low power hy tile variou- ccutres; but. on account of the fact. thai, all the commercial stations operate spark transmitters with almost infinite breadth of wave, it. is necessary, in the opinion of some experts, for receivers to have highly pelectivc receiving apparatus. The only Kdiltion appear? to bo that apparatus for uw« in New Zealand should Iw actually built, here, or sp-cirtlly .onstniotPiJ to suit Dominion conditions. "We have, regulations here which arc particularly pood--better than in any iither country." an expert's opinion: "and, without coming under the. very stringent regulations you would meet with in England, you are free, from the interference complained of in Aranrira. "The single-circuit, system in Anstraiia is filling the atmosphere with how-l-ing valvr-s. and causing an inlcrference by receiving stations to an extent, that would not exist, if the New Zealand twocircuit regulations were enforced."