RADIO RECEPTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 304, 23 December 1940, Page 6

RADIO RECEPTION.

Mr. '■Rhodes' chancee of awakening our broadcasting authorities to their r<vpon*il.ilities aro ]<. ss j],an Hurk3ejr's. Theirs is a dead s-leep—one to which Hip Van Winkled was but a nap. IVe solve<l the liuoineso by getting ri<i of my own set and ?,.,rrowii,j: a friend'* ehortwave which I tune on in Jiis place, thu* saving electricity, t ( , o . So as not t» be f0,.1<-<! wit], propaganda I Sought * score of foreign dictionaries. JonVing tiie wor«U up a». I go. This method en-ai.k-s one to decide for o,i<w!f whether th<> other fellow is holding anything kick o r not. Tor instance. J a «t* night a .t.i\a broadcju'ting i>tati«n rippwl out a whole stream of wir-f-plittin? ling«On looking up my Javanese 1 discovered \\ meant tuime s rt «f action was taking place somewhere, or T»a» po-ng to. and some s..rt of imj.orl.aiK* wa« attached to it by Miimonr. I dout know wlioilicr they maul Vichy <>r 'Jrowe, but one con],! teli 9.y t!je excitrd tf-DC* of the siwnko r ), c n< all stirred up about it. Rushing out to a hn»liUrtir*«, I excitedly told «11 ami had 1 >■■• fa?tion_ of hearing my nci^li I .'Ur tell the policeman on tlie In-at that anther New Xealiiix] sbij. had Wen r-unk-"lUc t -ot it on the wir.-V--." Mat-CIXKE.