KFI, LOS ANGELES

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 34, 9 August 1934, Page 23

KFI, LOS ANGELES

INTERFERENCE BY IYA

In tho course of a widoly-distribiited circular the. Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce referred to tho fact that complaints had been made in Now Zealand that it was difficult for KFI to be hoard in Now Zealand owing to tho interference by one of the main New Zealand stations, as the result of the. wavo-longths now hi use, and suggested that an alteration should bo made.

A copy of tho circular was sent to the Manufacturers' Association, which took the matter iip with the Fostma.s-ter-C4enoral. His reply says: "Apparently the president of tho Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce has been misinformed.. No action has beon taken to introduce any new wave-lengths into the _New Zealand broadcast allocations which will prejudicially affect reception from Station KFI; but, the action actuallly taken was a redistribution of tho wave-lengths which resulted in a wave adjacent to that of Station KFI being transferred from .one A reiv Zealand centre to imothor. ■

"It ia v matter lor regret that cer' Lain. Sow Zealand, listeners find recep-

tion of Station KFI difficult owing to their local station occupying an adjacent channel; but it is quite impossible for anew allocation remote from this overseas station to be made, owing to the fact that all suitable channels are at present occupied by other stations operating in Australia or New Zealand.

"It is appreciated that many New Zealandors are interested in the periodical reception from Station KFI; but so long as the samo broadcasting band is utilised in each of the 'several countries bordering the Pacific, it is inevitable that listeners, particularly _ those with iion-selectivo receivers, will bo deprived of remote reception of stations occupying broadcast channels adjacent to that used by their local station. . .

"The president of the' Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce may be assured that reception of Station KFI is possible except in the immediate neighbourhood of- one New Zealand broadcasting station." * . . .