“WIRELESS-MINDED” MALAYA

Evening Star, Issue 21974, 9 March 1935, Page 4

“WIRELESS-MINDED” MALAYA

The wireless, gramophone, and allied trades exhibition organised by the Penang Wireless Society, which was held in the grounds of the Penang Turf Club, was opened by His Excellency the Governor (Sir Shenton 1 nomas), speaking from Singapore. . 5 Simultaneously with the opening or this exhibition began the official life of the Penang Wireless Society's new broadcasting station, to which has been assigned the call sign of ZHJ and a wave-length of 49.4 metres. This new station is capable of giving a greatly improved transmission, and in the course of its tests it has been found that it can be satisfactorily received over a wide area. One of the aims of the society is to rehroadcast the Empire transmissions through ZHJ in such a manner that they can he received on a verv inexpensive receiver. Inciden-tally,-it is understood that the society is experimenting with a small low-cost receiver, which it is hoped may be put on the market at 50dol (Straits). Such a receiver will bring wireless reception within the range of a very large number of residents in Malaya. “ There is no doubt that we in Malaya now have every encouragement to be wireless-minded,” said Sir Shenton Thomas in his opening speech. “ The recent development of short-wave Empire broadcasting is in itself enough to justify possession of a receiver.” “ The highly successful -reception of Much important items as the Christmas broadcast from His Majesty the King, the launching of the Queen Mary, the Armistice Day service at the Cenotaph, and the recent Royal wedding, to say nothing of boat races, Grand Nationals, Derfays, and the like, makes us feel that‘England and the Empire are very close indeed.”

A very large gathering, including all the officials of the Penang Wireless Society, reassembled again after 9.30 p.m. to hear the special broadcast greetings from London.