YOUTHFUL ENTHUSIASTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16200, 25 November 1926, Page 3

YOUTHFUL ENTHUSIASTS

ADVICE TO BOYS. The time may come when New Zealand will need every available wireUss operator, and it is only by encouraging the young boys that we will have the numbers needed. We should remember that during the Great War many amateur wireless experimenters rendered great service to their country, many of them made the supreme sacrifice. At the time when America entered the war,' thousands of amateurs joined the National Radio League pledging their services as radio operators'. Of the 400.000 amateurs in the United States, there were, of course, thousands whose services were never required: but they were there if wanted, and it is always better to have too many than too few.

The intelligent hoy-who builds his own crystal set for broadcast, reception is seldom satsfied until he can understand just what those Morse symbols mean, which he so often hears transmitted by land or ship stations. Very manv excellent radio clubs are now in existence all over the country where keen enthusiasts meet weekly alicl compare notes, listen to lectures and are lmight the Morse code. etc. The unfortunate part about the study of radio is that it is so fascinating (hat many young boys are apt to neglect their school studies to lake up wireless. This is a very drastic mistake. Boys should deiiiiilely remember that if (hey wish to grasp the important technicalities of radio which are so very essential for complete success. they must be extremely good scholars.