OVER THE AERIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 251, 22 October 1937, Page 14

OVER THE AERIAL.

RADIO NOTES.

FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(By TUXE-IN.) Listeners who appreciate Archie and Frank —and. listeners who do not —will be interested or annoyed to learn that 2GB, which completed the 000 odd episode*. a couple of years ago, is starting a "revival" of the series.

PCL Hilversum, Holland, has been redesigned, and !s now the highest - powered short-wave station in the world. It transmits a special programme to New Zealand every Tuesday at 9.30 p.m. to 11 p.m., New Zealand summer time, on 19.71 metres.

To-night, to-morrow night and on Monday Mr.J.Shawwillrevicw from IZM the fields that are to take part in the Auckland Trotting Club's big meeting. Many visiting horses are already here for the 10 events carded, and more than ordinary interest is being taken in this particular meeting.

Listeners who may have been lookinir forward to Mr. A. <T. Sinclair's Scottish talks on Sunday next at 8 p.m. from IZM will be disappointed to hear that he has postponed these items. ''The Story of Flora Macdonald" and "Bonnie Prince Charlie'' and "Thrawn Janet,' until November 2S. His place on Sunday night will be taken bv Mr. Deas.

The estimates for the current financial year provide for an e\|>enditure of £354,000 on broadcasting. Of this £120,000 is allotted to the commercial services. According to figures in the Budget the expenditure on broadcasting in New Zealand during the last financial year was £144,000. The amount paid into the broadcasting account as the service's proportion of license fees would lie more than twice that sum.

"A sum of £2000 is allocated in the Financial Statement for subsidies to private stations. As part of this would be absorbed by grants to such stations prior to their acquisition by the State, it is obvious that the Government has no intention of being lavish in subsidising the few stations that are standing out. ""The suggestion that £.">0 per week was a fair thing for 4ZO in 1 imaiu seems rather amusing in the light of the figures mentioned." - — (Timaru "Herald.")

The vagaries of short-wave propagation now permit of the Empire stations commencing their No. 1 transmissions a little later each evening. For some little time to come the services will be over CSC. lti.Sti metres; CSO. 10.70 metres; CSD, 25.53 metres, and CSB, ri1.55 metres, and will open at 5.30 p.m. and continue until 7.4.") p.m. As our summer approaches the transmissions will be still later each evening. A feature of the recent Empire , programmes has been the large number of Australian artists participating. As would be expected, comparatively few N< w Zealand artists have been heard, but on Sunday last between 6.45 and 7 p.m. Marjorie Alexander, a New Zealand pianist, broadcast a Chopin recital. In conjunction with the American shortwave station W2XE, the Empire transmitters are conducting a series of important tests believed to be relative to the possibilities of programme interchange.

Record sales have been experienced by every firm who exhibited at Radiolympia, which recently closed in London after a period of unparalleled interest in allworld radio sets. '"This vintage year, with bumper salt's, is put down to the fact that those w*io have been hanging to three, four or even five years old radio sets have awakened to what they are missing through technical developments," «ay<s the radio editor of the "Daily Mail."' One of the novelties at the exhibition was a range of British sets in a monoscale device for tuning the all-world models. There are separate scales for each wave-band, but an ingenious mechanical link with the waveband enables only one scale at a time to tie visible for the appropriate waveband being tuned.

Some of the tennis matches at the recent Wimbledon championships were televised by the 8.8.C. During the process the ordinary commentary was sent out by the television sound transmitter. but viewers found that the commentator was nearly always an appreciable time behind the stroke in his description. Delay is, of course, inevitable, and it seems that it will not be wise to attempt to describe in the usual way anything that is being televised. If the sight transmission is sufficiently good there should be no need for a supplementary description. That day, however, is still a good way off. During the transmission of these scenes an intermittent interference which took the form of a shimmer occurred in the signals. The signals were convoyed from the courts to the main transmitter through the 8.8.C. mobile radio link, and apparently the trouble was caused by a power station. Its exact nature has not vet been determined.

FROM IVA NEXT WEEK. recordh'lg-s; no l °relay ° or" "e" • selPcted St Mark's AiigllcalfH reco'r f |in?s er Teaturing?''a 1 .3n l * d r Baptist Tabernacle; ' conceri"' or!', 0 se™n' VpeTTSK*CT e< ! P P ™I chor'ii ■ ' )J i sol "' sts and members or the gfe? c « rJ V * concert programme* Browning- Mummery, Australian numbers■ n " r ' \" e » a , tio » al in popul'j? \ o ' l,n ß" sl(, e commentary on the U e Tow 7/ a nan re I!"n *♦ m *\ ch > relayed from and melody '' U °t0 " music ' mirth

rei'i?i p 2? " educational session, reldject from the leachors' Training- rolP B°o n 'c ' :io 'f tall£ 1)y the £ ai 'deniiig ai.Rfhin i •' c . o,u ' ert programme, featuringanother episode in the series, "Stories of Famous Women—Florence Nightingale" ■ 9..>, talk oil "World Affairs," by Mr l k' \VPrtn® rt 10 " Clance mus/c.' L - Ksintini r. f n V- Ti 2 n """- rela J' 01 community tlle Town Hall; 7.30, book ,:«/ n c< J" cert featuring talk hv \ir i ?» ,n ? s aiHl ' at 9 ' 5 ' a further' IJ'K t)> All. l. I'. I.eary m the series, "From Vf?ootl a fi to the u,- ave—How the Law Affects Human Beings''; the studio to C n S n r m and Ada ,ynn ' so Pi'ano; 10.0 to 1 I 0. music. mirth and melody. \ B ' :i0 p - m - talk by Proressor *} 1 }; How the Mind Works" (.i); <.-ia, talk by Mrs. B. F. Richards "Humorists; or To-day"; 8.0, concert programme, featuring Browning Mummerv. \u- rim , 9 ' 5, a recorded talk by Thnm u . ' A Fam °us Man I Knew— Thomas Bracken"; rollowed by massed bands recordings, and at 9.n0, another or the hair hours with the composers, IVo. '•> Bach; 10.0 to 10.Hit, light variety Frida.v —7.:t0 p.m.. sports talk by' Gordon llutter; 8.0, concert programme, from 8.0 until 0.0. reading or verse and prose by b'Arc.v Cresswell; Oweiula Weir, soprano; Alan Pow, pianist; 10.0 to 11.0, music, mirth and melody. Saturday—B.o p m., concert programme, reaturing Browning Mummery, Australian tenor; Mad-line Cora Melvin, soprano; Doug. Stark, comedian; 10.10 to 11.15, dance music.