RADIO PROGRAMMES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 219, 15 August 1934, Page 3

RADIO PROGRAMMES

Radio programmes for to-night are as follow : IYA AUCKLAND (461.3 metres, 650 kilocycles).— 5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Chamber music. 9.0: Weather report. 9.2: Talk—Professor Maxwell Walker, “The Growth of a Language.” 9.20: Dance music. 11.0: Close. IYX AUCKLAND (340.7 metres, 880 kilocycles).—s.o: Selected musical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After dinner music. 8.0: Alternative concert programme. 10.0: Close down. 2YA WELLINGTON (526.0 metres, 570 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Recorded programme. 10.0: Music, mirth, and melody. 10.30: Dance music. 11.0: Close. 2YC WELLINGTON (356.5 metres. 840 kilocycles). —5.0: Musical session. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After dinner music. 8.0: Alternative concert programme. 10.0: Close. 3YA CHRISTCHURCH (416.4 metres, 720 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s, session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Relay of 4YA. 10.0: Dance music. 11.0: Close. 3YL CHRISTCHURCH (250 metres, 1200 kilocycles).—s.o: Light musical programme. 6.0: Close. 7.0: After-dinner programme. 8.0: Alternative concert programme 10.0 : Close down. 4YA DUNEDIN (379.5 metres, 790 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Chimes, Relay from Town Hall, concert by The Dunedin Symphony 1 Orchestra. Assisting artists: Miss 'Evelyn Shephard (soprano), Miss Marjorie McDowell (piano), A'lr Lester Aloller (recital). 9.0: Weather report. 9.2: Debate by two prominent members of the Otago Motor Club, “The Off Side Rule—To the Left or To the Right?” 9.40: “Superstition.” a dramatic presentation dealing with the fallacious superstition that the breaking of a mirror brings bad luck. 9.54: “Paying a Call,” a further episode in the lives of a Japanese houseboy and his employer. 10.10: Favourites, old and new. 10.30: Dance music. 11.0: Close. 4YO DUNEDIN (2bS metres, 1140 kilocycles).—s.o: Light musical session. 6.0; Close. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Alternative concert programme. 10.0: Close. 2ZF PALMERSTON NORTH (312.3 metres, 960 kilocycles).—6.ls: Childrens session. 7.15: Early musical session. 8.0: Relay of 2YA. .. 2FC SYDNEY (451 metres, 665 kilocycles).—B.o: National programme (transmission from 3LO). —From Richmond Town Hall, Policy Speech, by Rt. Hon. J.' H. Scullin, Leader of the Opposition. At the conclusion of the Policy Speech a variety programme will be provided from the studio by: The Wireless Dance Orchestra; Nick Alorton, comedian; Lilian Stender, soubrette; and “The Alaster hour” Quartette. 10.30: Close. 2BL SYDNEY (351 metres, 815 kilocycles).—B.o: “Variety”—Filmcr Boys, vocal and instrumental quartet; Amy Rochelle, entertainer; Keith Collins, novelty pianist; Pearly Duo, the coster comedy act. 9.0: Interlude, Lawrence Meyncll “will speak on “The Alaterial of the Author’s Craft.” 9.15: News Releases. 10.30: Close. EMPIRE SHORT-WAVE STATION. TRANSMISSION I. Wave-lengths. —Some of the following : 19.8’2rn, 25.28 m, 25.53 m, 31.30 m, 31.55 m, 49.59 m. . , tt r-t 5.15 a.m. : Big Ben. Two plays by H. C. G. Stevens, irom Coventry Repertory Theatre. 5.45: The composer at the piano. 6.15: Time signal from Greenwich. “Subs for Aynesworth,” a talk. 6.30: An organ recital. 7.0-7.15: News bulletin. TRANSAHSSION 11. Wave-lengths.—Some of the following : 13.97 m, 16.86 m, 19.82 m. 25.28 m. 25.32 m.. 11.0 a.m.: Big Ben. Reginald Foort al the organ of the Regal Cinema, Wimbledon, London. 11.45: Orchestra and artist, from a Cardiff studio. (Time signal from Greenwich.) 1.0-1.30 pm.: Orchestra, from the Troxy Cinema, London. TRANSMISSION IV. Wave-lengths.—Some of the following:— 119.82 m, 25.28 m, 25.53 m, 31.30 m, 31.55 m, 4y.59m. 6.0: p.m.: Big Ben. News bulletin. 6.15: Gershom Parkington Quintet. 6.45: Surprise item. 7.0: Time signal irom Greenwich. Ronald Frankau concert party. 8.0: Time signal. Promenade concert (Brahms), Solomon (pianoforte); relay from the Queen’s Hall, London. 8.40: Two plays from Coventry Repertory Theatre. 9.20: Interlude. 9.30: Dance music. 10.15-10.30: News bulletin. Note. —New Zealand time is one and a half hours ahead of eastern Australian time, and lli hours ahead of Greenwich mean time.

BITS ABOUTBROADCASTS, GENERALLY BRIGHT WEEK

(By “Microphone.”)

If ths fascination which radio—and particularly long-distance listening—holds is to he discovered in its inconsistency, then the past week has held a large measure of entertainment value. On several occasions it appeared that, at the conclusion of the recognised period, for satisfactory overseas reception, the precursor of the fade-out was to he in the nature of a grand climax, hut early Monday night brought a singularly unresponsive ether, although there was a minimum of interference. At 5 o’clock on Thursday afternoon KFI Los Angeles was radiating a splendid signal, and it was worth observing that its strength greatly diminished as the darkness fell. However, at 7 o’clock on Saturday night the volume was probably the best heard this winter. This inconsistency has been further illustrated in KOA Denver (near 2BL Sydney), which on some nights has made good listening with its 50,000 watts. At 5.45 on Monday night it was quite fair. Again, WLW has on some nights been surprisingly powerful and on others

absent altogether. A great deal depends on the time of listening, even a. quarter of ail hour spelling the difference, between complete silence and quite good signals, as KFI well-illus-trated ion Monday night, the organ session at 5.45 onwards being available at excellent entertainment strength, while only a few minutes before the dial was dead on this spot. This splendid continuous session included old favourites. . ' IZB, “the voice of the Friendly Road,” Auckland, which has been coming in at fine volume on occasions, repeated on Thursday night the history it made as the first station in the world to conduct a real radio wedding —that is, broadcast the ceremony as performed in the studio by Rev. C. G. Scrimegour (“Uncle Scrim.”). Just before the children’s session was commenced listeners participated in tins unique ceremony in which the chief figures were an Auckland couple. For a radio-telephone circuit rebroadcast, the Rugby Test description from Sydney on Saturday proved most disappointing. It appeared from the radiations from the YA stations that the fault lay in the Tasman circuit, for all were badly affected by extraneous noises, apart from the usual outside broadcast atmosphere. Recently advice was received that Mr J. C. Callander, of Dunedin, operator of ZL4BT, had won the British Empire Ra.dio Union’s trophy for 1934 by 180 points ahead of Mr J. Miles, of Coventry, England. Using 200 watts, lie scored 1234 points. Last year Mr G. G. Samson (ZL4AI) was the winner. This last was the fourth occasion on which the trophy was at stake and the second time it was won by the Dominion, which boasts only 400 a-mateur stations as against the hundreds of others in the Empire. Mr Callander’s call signals covered more than 1,000,000 miles, in the aggregate, and his feat in winning the trophy was no mean one. One point was given for each. 1000 miles covered, and the points totalled 1000, his. points ot contact being spread over the six continental groups of the world, of which Oceania was the sixth. When the cup was presented to him at Dunedin, Mr Callander said that a contest such as the one in which lie had been successful was in the nature of a “goodwill contest, as in 96 hours, two-way communication was held with 143 fellow competitors in Great Britain, Canada, India, Ceylon, Egypt, Hong Kong, Burma, Jamaica, Australia and British Honduras. The total mileage covered exceeded 1,250,000. A few days a.go a cable message from Rome announced the trial by the Marcliese Marconi of direction-finding apparatus for the guidance of fogbound vessels, his yacht Elletra being employed for the work. Mr E. T. Fisk, foremost among Australian radio engineers, has explained that the device is a development of the microray apparatus, which has been used successfully for the transmission of radio messages over distances up to 160 miles, and a model of which he brought to Australia when lie returned from his world tour recently. Wireless waves less than 2ft. long are used —the wave lengths for ordinary broadcasting services are 500 to 1000 times as long—and the signal is concentrated through a narrow beam to the ships, where it is picked up on a haltwave aerial, which consists of a thin piece of wire only a few inches long. The signal is then amplified and passed into a device which indicates whether a ship should proceed to port or to starboard. Thus a ship could be guided through any narrow channel into port. As the apparatus worked effectively as a direction-finder over distances up to 10 miles, added Mr Fisk, it would be particularly useful in preventing collisions between ships in fogs at sea. Already in these notes reference lias been made to the huge mast of the Budapest station. It is 1030 feet in height, being 50ft. higher than the Eiffel Tower, and weighs 230 tons. Each of the .guy wires—eight in all—imposes a loa<l of 32 tons, so that the insulating base carries a crushing load of nearly 500 tons. For a man to climb by ladder to the top takes 50 minutes. The whole of the huge mast is energised during transmissions, the electricity being applied 3ft. above the insulator at the base. The middle of the tower is 49ft. wide and. during the erection of the upper portion a crane was installed within this part of the steelwork. It is the huge guy wires that bear the strain, however. Each is in diameter and is of galvanised wire, comprising three lengths ot 200 ft. and one of 105 ft. to make a total length of 705 ft. Spaced along each are five insulators, the main bodies of which are of chrome-nickel steel, having an ultimate strength of 90,0001 b per square inch, and the socket bolts of chrome-nickel-molybdenum of an ultimate strength of 120,0001 b per square inch. The insulating porcelains are cemented to the metal bodies by high grade Portland cement and after assembly each insulator safely bore a load of 170 tons.

“REMEMBER THIS RADIATION.’

Remember that there will be no more Rugby broadcasts from Australia until the Test at Sydney on August 25. The Queensland match, if it should be handled by 4QG, is not being relayed to Sydney and thence to the Dominion.