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PHOTOGRAPH BY WIRELESS. A total of 2,234,988 broadcast receiving station licenses had been issued in Great Britain on June 30. The American station, KFON, transmitting- on 241 metres, is now being heard regularly early in the evening by a number of Auckland listeners.
Germany is to erect shortly a gigantic broadcasting station to work with a power of 100 kilowatts in the aerial on a wave length of 1250 metres. The station will be located at Zecsben. twenty miles from Berlin. The radio section of the United States of America Patent Office has doubled in size in the past six or seven years. Applications for radio patents number approximately 125 a month, as compared with about 60 a month in 1920.
A wireless' photograph Is reported to have been responsible -for the identification in New York of a man wauled for bank robbery in Vera p ruz. Although travelling under an assumed name, the man admitted his identity when confronted with hia radio likeness on landing in Now York.
Delight is being expressed by Australian listeners at the decision of 2VSL to reduce the amount of jazz music being broadcast by that station and to substitute drama. Three popular plays have already been broadcast. and others are promis'd in the near future. This is a welcome change from} the surfeit of jazz music broadcast from all stations.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 October 1927, Page 2
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