MUSIC FROM HOLLAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 112, 8 April 1927, Page 7

MUSIC FROM HOLLAND.

RECEIVED IN PALMERSTON NORTH.

SHORT WAVE LENGTH TRANSMISSION.

An important feat in wireless so far as New Zealand reception is concerned was achieved a fortnight, ago when Canterbury College picked up the trial messages sent out from an electric light lamp works at Eindhoven, Holland.

At 7.15 this morning, after several attempts in the earlier hours, Mr. W. A. Waters, of Palmerston North, picked up this station some 12,000 miles away. It would then be 7.45 p.m. on Thursday in Holland. For two hours a musical programme was listened to and at times such was the clarity of reception that, on the loud speaker, the music could be heard all over the house.

The announcer’s voice had a decidedly foreign accent and his “P.P.J.J., Eindhoven, Holland, the next item will be a piano solo, ‘Sonata,’ Beethoven,” had a national ring about it. The transmission was on 30.2 metres, to which short wave-length Mr. Waters’ set is specially attuned and designed. It was a wonderful demonstration of what is now possible in round the world transmission of the human voice and music through space. At 1 p.m. Mr. Waters informed a “Standard” reporter that the Dutch station was still “on the air,” though the volume was not nearly so great as at 7.15 a-m.