RADIO SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 31 August 1928, Page 5

RADIO SOCIETY

A meeting of the executive of the Amateur Radio Society of Wellington was held last evening. Mr. B. Brown (president) occupied the chair. The honorary secretary reported that he had made arrangements with Mr. W. M. Dawson, technical expert'for the Phillips Lamps Co., to deliver a series of radio lectures fortnightly from 2YA, Welling: ton, under the auspices of the society, j Several complaints were mentioned regarding reception of 2YA, Wellington. It was decided to report to the Broadcasting Company that bad modulation and confusion of sound in orchestral performances were affecting, reception of 2YA locally It was resolved to thank the radio section of the Electrical Federation of New Zealand for having secured: the co-opera-tion of the Post and Telegraph Department in combating the causes of electrical leakages which have seriously interfered with broadcast listening in many areas. The following motion was carried:— "After mature consideration: this committee cannot see its way to endorse a certain proposal submitted to form a Radio Institute of New Zealand." It was thought that broadcast listeners could best attain their particular aims and objects by the federation of all the existing "radio societies and listeners' leagues. This was the only logical outcome of the situation So far as broadcast listeners were concerned the proposed institute was not what was wanted.