WIRELESS DANCE MUSIC.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18168, 14 August 1922, Page 8

WIRELESS DANCE MUSIC.

WELLINGTON NOVELTY. USE AT TELEGRAPH SOCIAL. A complete novelty in New Zealand was provided for the dance of the District Telegraph Engineers' Social and Sports Club in Wellington last week, when somo of the dance music, was provided by wireless telephony. The transmitter was in the radio laboratory of Mr. McClay, in Gordon Place, close to the Newtown Post Office, and the dance was held in the New Century Hall, Kent Terrace. The transmission was conducted by Mr. McClay, and the instruments used were constructed by Messrs. McClay, Apperley, and Simpson. As an example of fine workmanship, the transmitter is notable, and is operated very well. The music was provided by grainaphone. At the receiving end, where Messrs. Apperloy, Haggett, and Beere were in charge, v. as a three stage amplifier from the same local workshop. The received waves, amplified by this set, were passed to a three-stage bower magnavox, from which they were emitted into the dance hall wi.th great power. As the hall is right on a tramline, and as a tramcar is annoyingly efficient as a generator of etheric disturbances at short distances, there wa» a good deal of disturbance, and the wireless programme was found less satisfactory than was hoped. The large gathering* was none the less pleased and impressed, and it thoroughly enjoyed the terrific uproar which was caused at 9 p.m. when "VLW," the Tinakori Hill radio station, burst in with its nightly weather report with so much amplification that the noise was almost deafening.