RADIO IN SOUTH AFRICA.
THE JOHANNESBURG STATION. [from orn owv con rK.sr<>stent-] CAPETOWN. Nov. 1 Only 1 per cent, of the white 1 pitlatiori of South Africa fake rid van f age of broadcasting as compared with 4 per cent, in England and Australia, and efforts are being nade to increase the in- I tcrest by improving the quality of trans- ] mission. Johannesburg has just completed a new • broadcasting station which romp ires well with any other in the Southern Flemis- 1 phere, and is the most powerful in the i British dominions. From it. good reception can be obtained, even ori a crystal set, in all parts, of the Union, and the .inaugural transmission was received very clearly in Capetown—a thousand miles distant—in spite of the fact that the night was (he wnrst, from the point of view of atmospherics, that had been cx-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20137, 24 December 1928, Page 10
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145RADIO IN SOUTH AFRICA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20137, 24 December 1928, Page 10
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