RADIO INTERFERENCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 19093, 27 January 1932, Page 2

RADIO INTERFERENCE.

To the Editor or *• Tne Tlmeru Herald.” j Six*. —is it not time that the P. and i T. Department took some effective j steps to deal with the fierce interfer- : ence which has earned for Timaru the reputation of being the “worst wireless town in New Zealand?” On Monday there was practically a continuous background from one or more of the machines of the “gusher” type, with occasional complete blotouts’by the roarer. It was much the same yesterday, with the added infliction of the machine-gun static which completely killed the dinner music session. I read in a southern paper recently an article, obviously based on information obtained from a departmental source, which asserted that “The Department possesses a van which is engaged in detecting interference of any kind, and when the source is discovered little difficulty is encountered in getting the matter put right.” So far as Timaru is concerned, nothing could be farther from the truth. A radio inspector who visited the town stated that there is no power to compel owners of static-making machines to abate the nuisance, and some operators of these machines flatly refused to do anything when requested to do so. It is high time that the Department framed reguations dealing with the nuisance, which is becoming gradually worse.—l am, etc., LISTENER.