BROADCASTING TRICKS
TRAMS IN MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, June 22. If the crooning voice of Bing Crosby, the description of a horse race, or advice to take somebody or other’s tonic comes within your hearing while you are travelling in a tram along Flinders Street, Melbourne, do not be startled. It will only be that you, like many others in recent weeks, are being treated to an example of the tricks that radio can play. The explanation is that modern trams are equipped with amplifiers for announcing stopping places, and that when passing a radio station these instruments pick up matter being broadcast. The overhead wire acts as an aerial and the sound impulses travel down the trolley pole into and put of the amplifier. In this instance, trams passing 3DB’s premises relay broadcasts, usually while they are travelling between Spring and Russell Streets.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 July 1940, Page 2
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