RADIO

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18381, 6 February 1928, Page 16

RADIO

from the Past” (Sir Apirana Ngata). 5.38: Poi-—Ropu Wahine Tane (girls and boys), “Ancient Poi.” 8.40: Ilaka —Ropu Tamariki, “Tau Ka Tau.” 8.41: Koauau solo—Ope Whenarere, selected. (Note.—The koauau (flute) is the original and only Maori musical instrument and was played by Tutanekai for Hinemoa.) 8.44: Song—Ope Whenarere and party, "E Pa Te Ilau.” 8.48: Ilaka—Ropu Wahine Tane, '‘Haka Poi.” 8.49: Symons-Ellwood Quartet. “Maori Lament” -(Alfred Hill). 8.54: Ilaka—Ropu Tamariki, “Haka Whakapapa.” THIRD PHASE. 8.55: Address—Hamiora Hakopa, “The Dawn of the New Day”; “Coming of the Missionary.” 8.59: Symons-Ell-wood Quartet, “Waiata Maori” (Alfred Hill). 9.5: Speech—Sir Maui Pomare, “The Treaty of Waitangi.” FOURTH PHASE. 9.17: Symons-Ellwood Quartet, “Ka Mate, Ka Mate” (Te Rangihikiroa). 9.23: Chorus—Ropu Wahine Tane, “Ope Tuatahi.” 9.25: Speech—Right Hon J. G. Coates, Prime Minister of New Zealand, “The Maori’s Part in the Great War.” 9.37: Memorial hymn with string accompaniment—Mangu Tahana, with Ropu Wahine Tamariki, “Piko Nei Te Matenga” (When our heads are bowed with woe). FIFTH PHASE. 9.40: Address—Hamiora Kakopa, “The Maori in Song and Play To-day.” 9.43: Solo and chorus, with string accompaniment— Raina Kahukura, “Iloki Hoki Tonu Mai.” 9.47: Song, with string accompaniment—K. Takarangi, “Home, Little Maori, Home” (Hill). 9.50: Chorus—Ropu Wahine Tamariki, “Po-ata Rau.” 9.52: Chorus—Ropu Wahine Tamariki, “Haere Haere ra e Hine” (Hill). 9.55: Solo—K. Takarangi, “Waiata Poi.” 9.58. Chorus with string accompaniment—Ropu Wahine Tamariki, “E Pari Ra.” 10.0: Solo and chorus, Mei perepe, “Hoea rape waka.” 10.4: Oration—Henare Poan anga, LL.B., “Maidens Welcome” (from “Scenes from the Past”), (Ngata). 10.5: Chorus and short double poi— Ropu Wahine, “Ta Hine Taru Kino.” 10.9: Male chorus—Tona Potae and Ropu Tamariki, “ Karoo, Karoo.” 10.12: Solo and chorus-—Ka Winiata and Ropu Tamariki, “Pekarekare.” 10.18: Solo with string accompaniment —Ka Winiata, "Hine e Hine.” 10.21: Chorus—Ropu Wahine Tamariki, “Te Taniwha.” SIXTH PHASE. 10.25: Address—Haniora Hakopa, “In Reminiscent Vein.” 10.27: Solo, with string accompaniment—Ka Winiata, “ Dream Boat.” 10.30: Oration— Henare Poananga, LL.B., “The Warriors’ Welcome,” from “ Scenes from the Past” (Ngata). 10.31: Haka— Ropu Wahine Tamariki, “Ka Mate, Ka Mate.” 10.32: Solo with string accompaniment—Mangu Tahana and Ropu Wahine Tamariki, “Home, Sweet Home.” 10.35: National Anthem. 3YA, Christchurch (306 m.). 3 p.m.: Selected studio items. 6.0: Children’s hour—Uncle Jack and Aunt Edna. 7.15: News and reports. 7.55: Circumstances permitting a rebroadcast will be conducted of 2YA, Wellington. 4YA, Dunedin (463 m.). 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.: Circumstances permitting, 4YA will rebroadcast the special Maori Pageant from 2YA, Wellington. Australian Stations. 2BL, Sydney (353 metres) : 10.30 p.m. to 2 a.m., studio concert and dance 2FC, Sydney (442 metres) : 10.5 p.m. to 1.30 a.m., studio concert, relay and dance music. 3LO, Melbourne (371 metres) : 10 p.m. to 2.10 a.m., lectures, travelogue, band, and studio and dance music. 4QG, Brisbane (385 metres) : 10.30 p.m. to 2.11 a.m., Grand Opera selection, Manx songs, sacred, classical, characteristic and light opera solos, etc. Part 11. will comprise a programme of specially selected records. Tc-night’s Maori Pageant. At all stations the event to-night will be the broadcast of the Maori Radio Pageant which is to be staged in the studio at 2YA. This will be the greatest radio attraction there has ever been in New Zealand. It is expected that hundreds of people will listen in, in New Zealand. Australia, America and Canada. Australian stations have seized with avidity the opportunity to re-broadcast. THE WORLD OF RADIO. WASHINGTON, November 27. Continental European countries rank next to the United States in the development and use of radio equipment, but the art has yet to make much progress in Asiatic countries, according to reports reaching the U.S.A. Department of Commerce. One of the smaller nations which has rapidly taken its place on the radio map is Denmark, where there are now in excess of 150,000 licensed radio receiving sets in use. A majority of these sets, of course, are in Copenhagen, but the farmers of the country arc gradually realising the usefulness of information which they ma\ r pick from the air. During harvest time in Denmark the Danish Meteorological Institute has arranged to broadcast weather forecasts three times a day over the official broadcasting stations. This service is reported to be very popular and valuable to the Danish farmers who have receiving sets and the information is passed along by telephone by those receiving it to other farmers who are without sets. The license fee in Denmark, which last year amounted to 1.500,000 kroner, is used for the broadcasting of prepared and selected programmes adapted to the various seasons of the year. Great strides also are being made, especially by the British, in beam trails-

mission, the object being to eventually enable the London government to be in constant communication with all the British colonies. A license recently was issued to the British East African Broadcasting Company to construct and operate a broadcasting station at Nairobi, Colony of Kenya, Africa. A high-powered short-wave station five miles from Nairobi on the Upper Kabete Road is to be constructed and will be equipped with apparatus similar to that used by the general post office in London. The,new station is expected to relay programmes from British and Continental stations, as well as broadcasting local programmes. A majority of the stock in the company is held in Kenya, indicating the great interest there in the future of radio. The short-wave wireless beam stations at Brimsby and Skegness, built for the general post office by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company for highspeed communication with India, have successfully passed their seven days’ official test and are ready for constant operation, a report reaching the Department of Commerce said. With these stations London will be linked with Canada, Australia, South Africa and India by means of high-speed stations. The use to which the Australian service is being put by business houses and private individuals was the subject of an interesting report just received here. Trade Commissioner Squire at Sydney said that during the first five weeks of the beam wireless service, traffic averaged 63,000 words a week, and gradually increased so that a weekly movement of 156.000 words has been attained.—“ New York Herald Tribune.” “ SOME UMBRELLA.” Always anxious to give to the radio world data on new developments, the United States Army Signal Corps, through the “ Herald Tribune Radio Magazine,” announces that a new 7 high power transmitting antenna has been developed and will be installed at various points early in .January, states a Washington message of November 27. The new antenna consists of an eightyfoot steel tubular mast, from the top of which radiate twelve wires in the shape of an umbrella, which is double the amount the present masts of the Army Signal Corps carry. The mast, being set up in sections, but far more ruggedly built than the present mast, can be easily moved, and will be the standard portable mast for the signal corps service after installed. Ten of the masts are now being constructed, and as soon as deliveries begin, they will be sent to the various air fields, coast artillery stations and signal corps posts for service. Officials of the engineering section of the signal corps, who perfected the new antenna, say that it will be able to double the capacity of the present portable antenna mast, and is adaptable for putting up and taking down without the necessity of using a number of men at guy ropes to control it. Plans for the new mast call for the eighty-foot steel shaft to be built in sections, which are attached while the mast is still on the ground. By a system of stationary guy props and a gin wheel, the mast is “ wound ” to an upright position, and upon reaching the vertical position desired, is locked by th.e hoisting device. From the top of the mast run eight with leads, 98ft long, fastened by a ball connector, which grips the cap at the top. At the extreme downward end of the 98ft of wire are four insulators to which i c attached sash cord rope, which keep the wires intact. The lead wire comes down parallel to the mast to the set. A counterpoise, which is connected with the mast, carries 175 ft of wire and four insulators attached to rope, which extends in a gradual slant to within four feet of the ground. Signal corps engineers say the new mast antenna will be considerably stronger than the old type, can be taken down and erected with ease and thus transported without difficulty where necessary, and will increase the effectiveness because of the doubling up of the wires used, from six to twelve. Why “3LO?” ** The identifying symbols or “call signals” of broadcasting stations are becoming very well known. Indeed it is doubtful if even any schoolboy does not know what is meant by “3L0,” writes “Ray Dio,” of Melbourne. But it is probably true that very few of the “grown-ups,” let alone the boys, could tell us how the symbol was decided on, and why it is necessary to have such quaint methods of christening a broadcasting station. Call signs are a legacy from the earliest methods of conducting wireless telegraph services. When a wireless station such as that on a ship is used for sending out messages and receiving messages intended particularly for that ship, it is obviously necessary that some system of naming the station must be devised. Letters are used because they are short and distinctive, and a stronger reason is the fact that in naming ships, from a wireless point of view, by call signals, a -national system of naming is adopted; and it is one of international knowledge and importance. The use of letters forming the call signals is based on a system approved bv the international radio convention: and the letters in the code used by a ship indicate the nationality of the ship. And. as every ship carries a book containing a complete list of those codes, the tracing of a ship’s particulars in the book is simple When broadcasting began, most of the earlier stations were used as experimental stations, and were receiving stations as well as sending stations. Thus it was necessary to give the stations a call signal for identification in conducting conversations. In Australia and in England, and in some other countries later on, the system was varied by including a figure in the code. The significance of the figureletter code has no international auth ority or meaning, and is really an arbitrary system employed in each country 'for use and knowledge within its own territory. In the Australian system the figure, denotes the state or district in which the broadcasting or experimental station is located. The figure 1 is not used for some reason or other, but 2 represents New South Wales 3 Victoria, 4 Queensland, 5 South Australia, 6 West Australia 7 Tasmania and 8 the interior, as at Alice Springs. The letters following the figure are arbitrarily fixed. The authorities endeavour to indicate the name of the operating company by using two of the initial letters, except when they might be confusing.