RADIO RECEPTION
Sir, —Since bringing to your notice the most unsatisfactory reception of IYA after dusk, I have been in communication with several listeners and we have mapped out roughly the area of fading and distortion. It appears to commence in the vicinity of Waipu and extends to the northernmost listener. Granted that sun-spot activity is co-re-lated with radio wave phenomena as pointed out by "Radio Engineer," anv change in the zone may take years and then perhaps for the worse. The change to long wave would now meet with much opposition from present set owners and it would have to be a very gradual process—probably overcome by IYA transmitting fill power on two wavelengths so that eventually radio receivers would be marketed to receive 011, say, 1200 metres as well as the usual broadcast wave-lengths. We in the North should receive consideration as the reception after dusk is. to put it mildly, abominable. A relay station would serve our requirements, I feel sure —for the» present at any rate. North Auckland.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22499, 17 August 1936, Page 12
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