RADIO CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 7, 3 October 1927, Page 5

RADIO CONFERENCE

CONCLUDING SESSION IMPORTANT REMITS The Listeners’ Conference, representing a large number of Radio (Listeners’) Societies in New Zealand, finished its lilial session on Friday night. Mr. G. McNamara (secretary to the Post and Telegraph Department) conferred with tlie delegates on Friday evening, and as each resolution was read out to him, Mr. McNamara commented upon it. Following additional remits were passed:—

"That the Government be requested to engage the services of an expert radio engineer from overseas to advise them in respect of broadcasting in New Zealand.”

"That the Department be requested to definitely prevent any dealer, wholesale or'retail, from displaying in windows, selling to the public, or demonstrating receiving sets, until the type or types o' receiving sets it is proposed to sell to the public shall first have been approved by the Depart-, ment.”

“That the Government be requested to publish regularly the amount paid to, or held on account of, the Broadcasting Company, as representing listeners’ and dealers’ license fees.” “That the Postmaster-General be notified that station 2YA (Wellington) is not transmitting efficiently, as is proven by the widely known fact that reception' of 2YA, even in Wellington, is, on the whole, most unsatisfactory. With crystal set reception, the station frequently fluctuates .in volume, and transmission is frequently distorted by 2YA. It is therefore manifest that if reception of 2YA is bad in Wellington, it is futile to hold fading tests and to blame atmospherics and other obscure causes for the vagaries of ‘2YA station as heard at more remote places in New Zealand.”

“That this conference strongly deprecates the use of broadcasting for the purpose of political propaganda or advertising.” “That tin’s conference is of the opinion that the best quality of transmission is not being obtained from the four New Zealand stations, especially 2YA, and is of the opinion that an expert engineer from overseas should be engaged to advise the Government on the matter."

"That as the submission of wiring diagrams is quite ineffective for preventing interference, the Department be asked to frame more suitable regulations to check the purchase and use of sets which can create interference.

“This conference requests that weather forecasts be broadcast every night, including Sundays.”

A remit requesting valve operators not to “howl” was passed. Tlie next conference will I e held in Wellington in the first week of Sep-' teinber, 1928.