RADIO

Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1930, Page 11

RADIO

•WEEK’S RADIO EVENTS. NEW WELLINGTON STATION.. The re-broadcast of a running description of the Melbourne Cup race was:the outstanding event of the week so far as radio is concerned, and scarcely, a radio-set was without its eager audi-ence-The broadcast was from 3ME, the short wave station in Melbourne, lYA’s re-broadcast was a great Wellington is to have a new B class station, 2ZW. The station will operate on 269.8 meters with a power of 500 watts in the aerial. This station is to be on the air early, in December and will be operated by the combined radio dealers of Wellington. An all-day service will be run if possible. One of; the best children’s sessions heard over the air for a long time was heard from 2YB on Wednesday when the programme was provided by the pupils -Of the Waitara school. It was a treat for both adults and children. It is to be hoped that this talented party will be able to give another such enjoyable entertainment. 3YA Is giving, special transmission during carnival °week in the cathedral city. Some particularly meritorious programmes have,been arranged in addition to Hie latest results and information from Riccarton and Addington. . The practice of connecting a number of stations per medium of land lines and broadcasting the same programmes is being much resorted to in Australia, to the detriment generally of radio. On a recent night it was painful to hear. Atmospheric conditions were good, yet a reasonably good programme was spoiled by line distortion and frequency attenuation, so that the whole value of the programme was lost. The long lines necessary for these simultaneous broad casts possess large capacity and other characteristic which have the effect of introducing serious mutilation of the original rendering. . ■ , Those listeners who have a-desk telephone in their homes can try an interesting experiment. Disconnect the regular °aerial from the set, stand the telephone on a metal tray and iuii a -wire "from the tray to the aerial terminal of- the receiver, when it will be found that you have an aerial nearly as ''efficient as your- outdoor one. The explanation of this phenomenon is that a condenser is formed by the metal tray and the wiring and metal parts of the telephone which give a capacity coupling to the outside lines in the street. There is nothing dangerous or illegal in this experiment, and it may prove useful when a wind happens to wreck regular aerials. INDUCTIVE INTERFERENCE. NUISANCE OF MAN-MADE STATIC. An interesting feature of the Canadian Radio Bill is the section which deals with interference. Every radio listener knows that there are tiroes when some noise or other mars the reception of a good programme. Such noises are known in technical language as radio inductive interference. Manmade static ic.'perhaps a more expressive term. It. includes all those elec-, trical energies sent out into space from electric toasters, oil furnaces, elevators, motor-cars, • electric signs, street car lines, power .transformers, X-ray machines and a host of other machines. For a. number of years the Canadian Government has operated a fleet of automobiles manned by radio engineers to combat, this, interference by means of installing such apparatus as is necessary to . eliminate the interference from receivers. There .has never been legislation. to compel-the user of electrical apparatus. causing such interference to instal the necessary equipment to rid the. .listeners of the noise caused by his equipment.. .The. Radio Bill will make such legislation, .possible, liberating the listener .of. P-t least man-made static

Armistice Day. will .he commemorated by 2BL Sydney . .and. 3LO Melbourne, when the dramatic. play .jj§rhe White Chateau” will be .pwQijted/at 11 p.m., New Zealand time, , by. the Melbourne Repertory Theatre .Company. The play was specially written for the 8.8. C. by Mr. Reginald Berkeley, the author of. “The Lady IVith the Lamp.” The theme is the destruction of a beautiful house during ' the' 'Great War, and the effect it had pon those who regarded it as home. It is an appealing story, told simply and naturally. There are many dramatic episodes, and the influence it must exercise on behalf of peace must make it tank for ever among the greatest war plays of the English language. It was first broadcast in -Australia on Armistice Day, 1929, when it met with universal appreciation, and it is by special request that it is being produced on Armistice Day this year. A splendid cast will make the presentation and incidental music will be supplied by the 3LO studio orchestra, conducted by Mr. Percy Code. Station CFCF, at Montreal, has more than ten years of continuous broadcasting to its credit. This station, it is said, was the first in the world to broadcast on a - regular basis as broadcasting is known to-day. It was in December, 1919, that it started regular entertainment transmissions. The audience then consisted of a hanuful of experimenters. B-ut at regular times they picked up this station, whose call sign was XWA, on 1200 metres. Month after month the transmissions continued, and each ■ week- new- distance records were made. A standard ship’s wireless installation was used, adapted foi speech transmission. Sometimes gramophone records were broadcast, at other times a player r piano was used, and .frequently local talent was called in. .These first broadcasters did not face a small “mike” as to-day, but' a much less .delicate instrument was plugged into the small end of megaphone. — I

I AUTOMATIC TUNING. I aOQ-GUiN'EA OUTFIT. A marvellous receiving set which u ill play a fixed programme of wireless and oramophone items is one of the wonders of- the Radio Exhibition at Olympia (said an English newspaper of recent date). , . y , All the listener lias to do is to lay out his programme in the order he. desires, and the set automatically does the fest. He has the choice of 11 stations for hi® wireless items a,nd can ai range his gramophone records in sequence. „ . This- model, which costs 500 guineas, and is the highest priced set in. the show, has an attachment for making its own records. It is listed at five guineas and can be fitted to any three-vahe “Listeners have often regretted that they have been unable, to make a record of a memorable broadcast,’’ said an exhibition official. “With this attachment they can do so. “The huge 500-guinea set which incorporates this feature has sufficient volume to fill the Albert Hall, but it can be so modulated that its loud speaker strength can be reduced to a whisper.” Seventy-four portable sets were exhibited, ranging in price from 50 ®hii' lings to 50 guineas. The 50-shilling portable contains two valves and i® about.the size of a pocket camera. Now that radio has become a permanent household institution, pertain manufacturers are placing partiallybuilt sets on the market so that they can be fitted into the furnishing of a room. In this way the set does not clash with the scheme of decoration. Another feature of the show was a microphone which amplifies the sound of heart-beats. This apparatus will be of o-reat service to the medical profession for purposes of diagnosis in heart and other internal complaints, it is StjQr As this year is 'the tenth anniversary of broadcasting in Britain, the 8.8. C. exhibited the original 2LO transmitter which was installed in Marconi House. In contrast to it was a modern compact amplifier which will supply music to 300 odd loud speakers on exhibition stands and in demonstration rooms. Other interesting historical exhibits were the microphone which was used in Australia to communicate with the Australian test team in England and the first mocrophone to be used in an aeroplane for air-communieatioh. x TO-hHGHT’S PROGRAMM ES NEW ZEALAND STATIONS. IYA Auckland. Afternoon session.—3.o, selected studio items, including literary selection; 5.0, children’s session; 0.0, dinner session; Halle Orchestra; 6.15, Menorah Symphony Orchestra; piano, Ignaz Friedman; New York Symphony Orchestra; 6.30, Musical Art Quartet; violin, Y. D’Aranyi; orchestra; 6.45, Musical Art Quartet; piano, Ignaz Friedman; Berlin State Orchestra; 7.0, news and market reports; 7.40, talk. Dr. MacCormick, “Cancer.”

Evening session.—B.o, chimes; London Symphony Orchestra; Lyric soprano, Mrs. Eric Yates; piano duet, Misses Silk and Manning; tenor, Mr. B. Turner; studio trio; 8.39, vocal duet, Mrs. Eric Yates and Mr. H. Barry Coney; violin, Mr. J. Whiteford Waugh; contralto, Mrs. Howie; Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra; evening weather forecast and announcements; 9.1, chorus, Royal Choral Society; Studio Trio: baritone, Mr. W. Ker; piano, Miss Nancy Martin; soprano, Miss’ Eva Russell; 9.29, ’cello, Miss Lalla Hemus; bass, Mr. A. Turner; piano duet, Misses Maisie and' Nancy Martin; operatic aria, Mrs. Eric Yates; studio trio; baritone, Mr. H. Barry Coney; Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra; 10.5, God Save the King. 2YA Wellington.

Afternoon session.—3’.o, chimes; selected studio items; 3.30 and. 4.30, sporting results to hand; 5.0, children’s session; 6.0, dinner music sessidh; J. H. Squire’s Celeste Octet; ’cello, Gaspar Cassado; Columbia Symphony Oi’chestra; Debroy Somers Band; ’cello, Gaspai Sheffield Orpheus Male Choir; 6.30, Halle Orchestra; Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra; 6.45, Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Zurich lonhalle Orchestra; Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra; Sheffield Orpheus Male Choir; 7.0, news session, market reports and sports results; 7.40, Mr. Colin Smith, “Radio Receivers.”

Evening session.—S.o, chimes. A programme featuring the Etude Quartet in vocal gems from the musical comedy, “High Jinks.” During the course of the programme there will be a relay of a sound film feature from the Majestic Theatre. Overture, 2YA Orchestriua (conductor, Signor A. P. Truda); tenor and quartet, Mr. Will Hancock and Etude Quartet; band, H.M. Coldstream Guards; contralto, Mrs. Ray Kemp; 2YA Orchestriua; elocution, Miss Elsie Cox; organ, Jesse Crawford; soprano, Miss Gretta Stark; duct, Miss Gretta Stark and Mr. Will Hancock; 2YA Orchestrina;. weather report and station notices; piano, Mr. Ernest Sharp; duet, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kemp; soprano and chorus, Miss. Gretta Stark and Etude Quartet; selection, 2YA Orchestriua; elocution, Miss Elsie Cox; ’cello, Pablo Casals; baritone and chorus, Mr. Ray Kemp and Etude Quartet; chorus, Etude Quartet; saxophone duet, Rudy Wiedoeft and Arnold Brilhart; waltz, 2 YA Orchestrina; march; God Save the King. 3YA Christchurch. Afternoon session.—4.2s, sports results; 5.0, children’s hour; 6.0, dinner session; Brunswick Concert Orchestra; orchestral, A. and P. Gypsies; violin, Frederic Fradkin; Brunswick Concert Orchestra/orchestral, A. and P. Gypsies; Brunswick Concert Orchestra; orchestral, Anglo-Persians; violin, Frederic Frad-

kin; Ray Miller and His Orchestra; 6.30, orchestral, A. and P. Gypsies; Brunswick Concert Orchestra; orchestral, A. and P. Gypsies; Ray Miller and His Orchestra; 6.45, Brunswick Concert Orchestra; violin, Frederic Fradkin; orchestral, Anglo-Persians; 7.0, news session.

Evening session.—8.0, chimes; popular and dance programme; overture, New Light Symphony Orchestra; quartet, Lichfield Male Quartet; mandolin guitar, Miss Gwen Webster; baritone, Mr. Percy Caithness; Broadcasting Trio; 8.33, contralto,' Mrs. D. W. Stallard; ’cello, Mr. Harold Beck; Lichfield Male Quartet; tenor and bass, Messrs. G. T. Ritchie and W. Cotton; mandolin guitar, Miss Gwen Webster; Lichfield Male Quartet; 9.0, weather forecast and station notices; Broadcasting Trio; bass, Mr. W. Cotton; ’cello, Mr. Harold Beck; contralto, Mrs. D. ( IV. Stallard; 9.27, Lichfield Male Quartet; 9.30, dance music until 11 p.m. 4YA Dunedin. Afternoon session.—3.0, selected gramophone items; 3.15, talk, Miss Buccleugh, “Fashions”; 4.25, sporting results; 5.0, children’s hour; 6.0, dinner music; National Symphony Orchestra; San Francisco Symphony Orchestra; New Light Symphony Orchestra; San Francisco Symphony Orchestra; trio; 6.30, Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra; San Francisco Symphony Orchestra; 7.0, news session. Evening session.—8.0, chimes; overture, Classic Symphony Orchestra; soprano,'Miss Olga E. Wynne; 4YA Trio; 8.22, modern one-act play, Winkel-Lam-pen Radio Players, “Followers” (Brighouse); 8.50, 4YA Trio and ’cello (Mr. P. J. Palmer)/ “Tarantelle” (Popper); weather report; 9.2, banji, H.M. Grenadier Guards; soprano,/Miss Olga E. Wynne; 9.16, modern one-act play, Winkel-Lampen Radio Players, “The Grand Cham’s Diamond” (Monckhouse); 9.46, 4YA Trio; 8.8. C. Choir and 8.8. C. Symphony Orchestra; 10.0, God Save the King.