RADIO CLUB NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19523, 24 June 1933, Page 12

RADIO CLUB NOTES

Secretary and Treasurer— D. W. Beswlck, C/o C.F.C.A. 197 Otipua Road or Radio Club members have been very busy lately on the track of howlers and interference. Some weeks ago through this column, requests were made to listeners to notify four members of the club situated in four areas in Timaru on all classes of interference. Acting on reports received, electrical interference in Rathmore Street, Otipua Road, Wai-iti Road and College Road has been located and as far as possible remedied. Howling, which for a while was kept down owing to the activities of members with the detecting set is again becoming prevalent, We are again going out with this set, and in spite of the cold nights HOWLERS BEWARE! Every person found operating any type of howling set will immediately be reported to the Radio Inspector, who has power to cancel the license of the offender. Any person who suspects any set, or has doubts of his own, is requested in the interests of all listeners in Timaru to communicate with the secretary of the Radio Club.

The Club is putting an appeal for more funds to carry on the work at the Hospital on the air from 2 and 3 YA.

The meeting of the Club held on Wednesday was well attended, and a good amount of business was put through.

After the meeting members listenedin to wrestling from 3YA. At the next meeting on July 5, a debate on direct coupling versus standard audio couplings will be held.

The Hospital Committee have completed the installation of the set in the Nurses’ Home, with the extension to the children’s Ward. They are nOw busily engaged in rewiring the old Installation which was carried out with lead covered wire, and which is developing short circuits where it has been stapled to the walls. The original wiring was a series circuit. This is being altered to a parallel circuit, with cut-out switches to each ward, thus enabling troubles to be localised in a few minutes. In addition, a separate supply is being run from the Nurses’ Home set to No. 3 and No. 6 Wards, and the Jean Todd Maternity Ward, thus allowing the male patients to listen to the boxing or wrestling while the ladies can be switched over to a musical programme from the second set, thereby reducing one of the greatest causes of complaint between the patients. This will take time and also money, though thanks to-the donations received from many local listeners, and ex-hospital patients this difficulty is being surmounted slowly. Approximately £35 has been spent to date, practically every bed in the hospital is now supplied with headphones. The kiddies have their own private loud-speaker. All this requires a large amount of servicing expense apart from any alterations carried out.

Reception during the last week was all that was desired. The “Aussies” came in with more volume and steadiness than the YA stations. The U.S.A. stations have also been very strong.

The “1933 Follies” put over from 2YA last Saturday was very enjoyable. It is programmes like this that would make the YA stations very popular.

On Sunday, Mr. Peter Dawson gave a surprise chat from 3YA, and a very unexpected surprise, in singing “The Mountains of Mourn.”

One of the most popular Australian stations at present is 2KY Sydney. It is on a frequency of 1070 kcs, and may be heard at 7.30 a.m. in the morning with good volume. 2KY provides popular entertainment with the lighter type of music, dance music and the latest popular hits. It is essentially a sporting station, broadcasting wrestling matches each Saturday night. These ringside broadcasts are followed by an immense number of listeners throughout Australia and New Zealand. 2KY was the first station to broadcast the daily sessions of Parliament in their entirety. It is owned and controlled by the Labour Movement of New South Wales. It is the world’s first Labour Broadcasting Station, it being the first “B” Station to break away from the experimental ranks and challenge the "A” class stations in 1925, and since that time the Trades Hall station has provided gratuitously to the public a regular daily programme. Transmission times (N.Z. Standard times) are, Monday to Friday, 7.30 a.m. to 1 a.m., Saturday 7.30 a.m. to 2.30 a.m., Sundays 9 a.m. to 2.30 a.m.