Broadcasting in India

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19247, 12 February 1937, Page 11

Broadcasting in India

Ml?. G. W. Goyder, the chief engineer of the Delhi broadcasting station, gave a radio talk in ..Mysore in which he explained the proposed All-India Radio scheme. "The system," he said, "consists in providing a second-class service over a large area by means of short wavelengths, with the simultaneous use of a medium .wavelength for efficient service over large centres of population. Although medium wavelengths alone can give a first-class broadcast service, short wavelengths are necessary to cover the outlying parts of the country. The development of All-India Radio in the immediate future is expected to be limited to eight new- stations, four of them being medium wave-stations at Lahore, Lueknow, Dacca and TrichinoVoly; the other four stations will bo short wave-stations tit important centres such as Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, and possibly Madras. In visiting various (owns my object has been to consider suitable sites for the location of tho transmitters, which are expected to be of high power (5 lew's). Transmitters of such high-power have to be located about five miles outside the towns so as to avoid difficulties over luning-in,''