RADIO WITHOUT SETS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20482, 6 February 1930, Page 5

RADIO WITHOUT SETS.

Eight hundred homes in Ramsgate rcccivo wireless programmes daily, although they possess no sets, says the London Daily Telegraph. They are subscribers to a local radio exchange, and all they have to do in order to listen-in is to press a button. A loud-speaier is the only apparatus. The programmes aro picked up at tho radio exchange station on a super-set, from which' they are conveyed to tho subscribers by land-line. This is really an adaptation of tho system whereby, by subscribing to a central service, people a few years ago could listen-in by telephone to various entertainments. In Ramsgato the subscribers pay 2s Gd a week for the broadcasting service, which is available from 10.15 in the morning until midnight. Most people consider it very cheap Every subscriber has to take out a 10s wireless licence, there having already been legal ruling on that point. No doubt many other towns will shortly have such radio exchanges, for arrangements can be made by any enterprising company with tho post office to supply the wireless service to all houses fitted j with telephones. Tho only drawback is that subscribers have to take the programmes selected —that is to say, they cannot tune in to other stations.