MARRED RADIO RECEPTION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22617, 4 January 1937, Page 12

MARRED RADIO RECEPTION

Sir. —I have read with interest and sympathy several letters recently complaining of marred radio reception due to a high-power morse transmitter breaking through all over the broadcast band. From several inquiries I have made, these are not isolated cases. They are due, I understand, to the old and out-of-date plant user) by the Govern, inent for dealing with shipping messages. 1 have had a gentleman in my home who could read morse, and he picked up the names Monterey and Mariposa 011 one occasion that he came in. On the night J. arranged for the radio inspector to come down and listen to what we had to contend with there was 110 morse interference. It would not be so annoying if one could tune it out, but even on IYA it can be head squealing in the background, and on the lower-powered stations—well, I leave it to the reader's imagination. Many a time we have had to switch the wireless off on account of this morse interference. I conclude this _ letter hoping someone in a position to remedy this undoubted fault will realise and rectify it, and thus earn the grateful thanks of others like myself who are putting up with it. Clear Radio Reception.