RADIO SERVICES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 10

RADIO SERVICES.

INQUIRY BY EXPERTS. MATTERS FOR INVESTIGATION. [BY telegraph.—press association.] WELLINGTON, Friday. An announcement has been made by Mr. H. D. Vickery, chairman of the NewZealand Broadcasting Board, that Mr. A. Gibbs, chief telegraph engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department, and Dr. M. A. F. Bamett, of the Scientific and Industrial Research Department, were the experts chosen by the board to investigate the question of coverage and matters relating thereto. Mr. Vickery said that this commission would investigate and report upon the best availablo means for providing the most satisfactory broadcasting coverage for New Zealand, having due regard to all such factors as (1) distribution of population, (2) topographical features, (3) desirability of establishing relay stations and the means of connecting them with distributing centres, (4) the practicability of having one or more national stations giving nonfading reception all over the Dominion, (5) the power of stations with a view to ensuring adequate signal-to-noise ratio adequacy of existing stations in relation to power, modern features of design and quality of broadcast transmission. The commission will shortly visit various parts of New Zealand where reception is unsatisfactory and investigate the conditions. Societies and person? desiring to make representations to the commission should notify the board as early as possible.