RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23071, 23 June 1938, Page 6

RADIO IN THE HOME

PROGRAMME FEATURES THE SEOOND CRICKET TEST SHORT-WAVE CONGESTION BV ALL-WAVE An interview with Mr. G. Koshnitsky, chess champion of New South Wales, and a recital by Frederick Collier, Australian bass-baritone, are the featured items on to-morrow evening's concert session from IYA. On Saturday, following microphone appearances bv Lcela Bioy, violinist, and Leslie Russel, tenor, tho station will devote half an hour to a relay of the programme of organ music to bo presented at tho Town Hall by Renee Nizan, brilliant French organist, who is touring the Dominion. Frederick Collier is to give a further recital on Sunday evening, when Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" is to be put on tho air. Opening with a recorded version of Sonata No. 2, by Delius, Wednesday's chamber music hour will include the presentation by Rena Edwards, soprano, of a group of songs, and, at 8.116, Schutt's Variations on an Original Theme, by Phyllis Bloy and Evelyn Prime, on two pianos. Soon to visit the Homeland, D'Arcy Creswell is to give over 2YA at 8.40 this evening the first of a short series of talks on "Some Modern Poets: Opinions and Readings." The second portion of the same programme is to consist of recitals by Colin Horsley, pianist, Irene Petty, soprano, Ida Lockwood, violinist, and a group of bassoon solos by W. Dcarden Jackson, tho eminent musician. For the first half of its concert session, 3YA will broadcast a debate under the auspices of the Gliristchurch Debating Society, "That woman has lost more than she has gained by her entry into industry." On Saturday, between 8 and 10 p.m., the Wellington station will relay the public concert to be given by Alexander Kipnis, famous Russian basso, and Xoel Newson, pianist. "Strife," a play by Jolin Galsworthy, will be presented over the same station at 9.5 p.m. on Sunday, when 3YA will offer a recital by Danny Malone, tenor, and the radio play, "The Fatal Step." Broadcasts of eyo-witness accounts, ball-by-ball descriptions, and score summaries in the second cricket test figure largely in this week's YA programmes. The Auckland station will give its opening broadcast at 10 p.m., and when the station closes down at 11 p.m. "burners of the midnight oil" may turn to 2YA, which will carry on until 5 a.m. On Saturday, at 7 a.m. and again at 8 a.m., IYA will furnish a resume of the results, and at 9.35 a.m. an eye-witness account by P. G. Fender of tho play. Between 9.30 p.m. and 11 p.m. the station will deal with the play on tho second day, Wellington remaining on the air until 5 a.m. On Sunday IYA will give a result summary at 9 a.m. and commentaries at 9.45 a.m. and 1.45 p.m., while on Tuesday tho score summaries will bo given at 7 a.m. and 8 a.m., with an eye-witness account at 9.15 a.m. In addition to the usual score summary, IYA will on Wednesday supply a description of the play at 10.28 a.m., the commentator being W. A. Oldfield. The roccnt Cairo meeting of the International Telecommunications Conference arrived at decisions which will tend to ease the congestion which at present occurs on the more popular short-wave broadcasting bands. On the 49-metre band room has been made for another live channels, nnd a new band to accommodate 10 stations has been created at about 41 metres. The allocation for broadcasting on 31 metres has been doubled, but even so, there is room for but 20 stations in simultaneous operation. It would appear that the conference anticipates much greater use of wavelengths about 14 metres, as it has arranged for no fewer than 30 channels around this frequency, which at the present time is used only by GSH and GS.T (Daventry), WSXK and W2XE (U.S.A.), and the German DJS. The conference postponed consideration of a plan to allocate short-wave channels to individual stations." Not so many years ago the short waves below 200 metres were regarded as useless for broadcasting; and communication purposes, but amateur experimentalists achieved such remarkable results that there is little of this part of the spectrum that is not congested by broadcasting and other radio services. Many of the major companies are delving into tho sphere of micro waves, which are of exceedingly short length, and approach tho characteristics of light. For these minute waves tho required antenna length is about one foot, and pigmy apparatus gives remarkable results. There is an entire absence of static, but the ignition systems of motor-cars are very troublesome. One large broadcasting company uses a micro-wave transmitter for relay purposes. The transmitter, which has a range of, four or iivo miles, is but a cube of three inches, and uses two 10-inch aerials. It has an output of two tenths of a watt, or about onehundredth of that of an ordinary lighting bulb, and weighs complete, including batteries and microphone, four pounds.

FROM IYA To-day —7.30 p.m., "The Whlrliprifir of Time—Education To-dn.v," Mr. ,A. B. Thompson; 8 p.m., "Westward Ho!"; 8.15, "Wandering With the West Wind"; 8.15, " The Strange Adventures of Mr. Penny"; 9.5, reserved period; 9.20, recorded band music; 0.30, "Dad and Dave from Snake Gully"; 9.43, band music; 10 to 11, music and melody. To-morrow: s p.m., Cesar .Franck's Symphony in D Minor; 8.15, Frederick Collier, bass-baritone, "Der Wanderer," "Du Bist du .Hull," "Der Doppelganger" and "Jch ('■rolle Niciit"; 9.5, interview with Mr. G. Koshnilsky, chess champion of New South Wales; 0.20, Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3 in D Minor; 10 to 11, rebroadcast of second test, cricket match, England v. Australia. Saturday: 7 and 8 a.m.. results in cricket match; 9.35 a.m., P. G. Fenders account of the cricket; 8 p.m., Leela Bloy, violinist, with Studio .Orchestra, "Rondo Capriccioso"; 8.15, Leslie Russell, tenor, "An Island Slieiling Song," "Twin Flames" and "Trottin' to the Fair"; 8.25, the orchestra, "Verschniachte"; 8.30. lienee Nizan, French organist, in recital at Town Hall; 9.5 to 0.30, light recordings; 9.30 fo 11, rebroadcast of second cricket test. Sunday: 9 and 9.-15 a.m., cricket commentaries; 11 a.m., relay from' Church of Christ. Ponaonby; 1.15 p.m., cricket commentary; 7 r in., relay from Salvation Army Congress Hall; 8.30, "Der Freischutz" overture; . 8.1'.!, Frederick Collier, Australian bass-baritone, "J'll Have Vengeance," "Within the Holy Temple," "She Alone Charmeth My Sadness" and "The Toreador's Song"; 9.5, recorded presentation of Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde," Monday: 8 p.m., recorded play, "Told in the Mystery Club —The Glass Brooch" i 8:28, "Marigold," piano duet; 8.32, "Talking of Cricket"; 8.10, "Are or Spades," piano duet; 9.5, wrestling relay; 10 to 11, music and melody. Tuesday: <>.ls p.m., cricket commentary; 8 p.m., "Rodeo" march; 8.5, Japanese Housobo.v; 8.18, Frederick Col Iter, bass-baritone, "The Yeoman of England," "Whale'er the Scenes," "The Hear! Bowed Down," "Golden Days" and "Queen of My Heart"; 8.33. Eb and Zcb; 8.12, "Hucc'anecrs of the Pirate Ship, Vulture"; 0.5, talk. Mrs. Nello Porter. "Glimpses of Shanghai"; 9.30 to 11, second cricket test. Wodnoariayi (1.15 p.m., cricket commentary; 7.30 talk. Professor B. F. Moyne, of the United States debating team, "The United Stales of America"; 8 p.m., Sonata No. 2 (Delias arranged Tort-is); 8.14, Ravel's Introduction and Allegro for Harp; B.2<i, Hena Edwards, soprano, "Whither," "Evening Song" and "Near to Thee"; 8.3(3, Phyllis Bloy and Evelyn Prime, Schutt's piano duo, Variations on an Original Theme; 8.48, Tschatkowsky's Quartet in F Major; 9.5, "Coronets of {England"; 9.35 to 10, light recordings; 10 to 11, music and melody.