RADIO INTERFERENCE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20729, 14 December 1932, Page 17

RADIO INTERFERENCE.

TO THE. EDITO3 08 THK I'P.EdS. Sir,—Your representative's interview with Mr Gates, the deputy-radio inspector, as reported in The Press, on December 7th, in my o pin km may create wrong impressions ou some oi' your readers and discourage thein from joining in our protest to the m connexion with radio interference. T.ie local station cannot put over a programme pleasing to all every night, and consequently those who are not satisfied desire 'to switch over to another station. The Board's policy is to please the greatest number of listeners, tuid it aims to have a different type of programme from each YA. station each night. In the circumstances prevailing in Christehurch we hear only the stations outside of 3YA and perhaps 2YA in spasms, owing mainly to interference from various causes. It is agreed that when the signal power of each YA station is increased some of tho interference will disappear. It may be epiite a few years before the power of these stations is increased, and in the meantime we must put up with "tbe radio roarer," etc., as Mr Hates says our complaints are unreasonable. Mr Gates hay referred to "One of the major sources of interference." This is "known to Christehurch listeners as "the radio roarer." and according f-o our deputy-inspector the effect is severe, for about one mile radius. He diid not say that listeners in close proximity to the source cannot listen to 3YA while the "roarer" is on the a'tr. I find that 3ZC :i;> distorted by the "roarer," and I am easily three miles distant. The "roarer" has a seven to 10 miles radius, and is caused by a certain medical apparatus which is now obsolete. Will Mr Gates state approximately how many listeners would be represented in the one mile radius he mentioned? Thousands, I would say. The Tramway Board is making every possible effort to avoid interference from the trolley-buses, and for this we are extremely "grateful. In one paragraph Mr Gates practieally ridicules listeners who complain about interference and terms them as unreasonable. Yet in another he states that the subject is a vitally important one which would have to be faced. In my own opinion radio interference in and about Christehurch is becoming worse, and rr.any gentlemen well up in radio circle* agree with this.—-Yours, etc., J. C. STAPLETON, President Christehurch Branch . KZ. t>x ciub. December J 3th, 1932.