RADIO

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19241, 1 December 1930, Page 5

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- INSULATOR ” REPORTS ON S.W. BROADCASTS. Inception Last Week. In his report on conditions ruling during reception of short-wave broadcasts last week, “Insulator” states: “Early morning listening on S.W. is at present decidedly poor, the best times of the day being about 6 p.m. and round about midnight. Thanks to a paragraph in a radio paper received from Radio Saigon, the 23.8-metre station referred to in the last few weeks’ notes as working with Paris, has been identified as Rabat. Morocco. Their exact wave-length is given as 21 metres. A telephone service is in operation between this station and Paris between the hours of 3 0 and 12 G.M.T., corresponding to 10 p.m. to midnight here. The week’s log is as follows: “Rabat, on 24 metres and FTN, Paris, 24.46 metres, very loud on speaker every night after 10 on duplex telephony. KIXR, Manila, very good on 24.4 metres on speaker every night except Monday with music from 10. On 23.8 metres an American station heard talking to London at 10.25 p.m. on Friday. On 24.4 metres on Tuesday records R 7 and very well modulated. Talk given in what sounded like Dutch. On 24.42 metres, between KIXR and FTN a station, foreign, .was operating on Saturday at 31 p.m. with children singing. Well modulated, but heterodyned too much by the other two stations. WSXK, Pittsburgh, 25.4 metres, R 5 at 7 a.m. Wednesday on jazz music. GSSW, England, 25.53 metres, clear and R 4 on talk on novels on Friday at 7 a.m., following chimes of Big Ben. GBP, London, 27.8 metres, very good speaker strength

every night at 8 working VK2ME, Sydney, 28.5 metres, who is at tremendous strength. LSB, Buenos Aires, 28.9 metres, fair speaker strength, on Sunday at 2.45 p.m. On 31 metres (about) a foreign station with Japanese music, or similar, heard on Tuesday at 3 0.50 p.m.; strength R 7 and very clear. Much talk in foreign tongue. PCJ, Holland, 31.28 metres, very weak on Friday morning at 7 on music. W2XE, New York, 49.02 metres, R 6 Tuesday at 5.30 p.m., relaying jazz items from WABC. W3XAL, New Jersey, 49.38 metres, R 8 on speaker on Tuesday with dance music till 6 p.m. W9XF, Chicago. 49.83 metres, good on speaker till 8 p.m. on Sunday with programme of dance music. KIXR, Manila, 45.8 metres, very loud Sunday night after 10 on records. Saigon, Indochina. 49 metres, very good speaker strength Monday evening at 11 on songs. Modulation excellent. RVIS. Khabarovsk. 70.2 metres, very loud on speaker most evenings at 30. Not very much time has been devoted during the week to listening, and this, coupled with the fact that stations have not been of very good strength, accounts for the shortness of the week’s loggings.” New Concert Schedule.

As from to-day, the programmes of the i A stations have been arranged according to an extended schedule, increasing the hours devoted to the lighter forms of entertainment. In view of the difficulty of providing programmes to please the diversified tastes of a radio audience, the Broadcasting company devised a scheme of broadcasting different types of programmes nightly from its stations, so that New Zealand listeners may have the choice of several programmes to tune in for an evening’s entertainment. In future, operatic and classical programmes, hitherto occupying two evenings, will be combined into one, and will be followed by a session of dance music Thus one more night every week from every’ station will be devoted to a concert of the popular type”. Devotees to the lighter forms of entertainment will be specially pleased. From one station or another, on every week night, dance music will bc Dance music will be available from 2YA on three nights of the week and from IYA, 3YA and 4YA on two nights.

I*rom Australia To-night. The final of the 1930 series of lectures under the auspices of the University Lx tension Board will be delivered at 10 o clock to-night by Mr H. M. Green, L.A... LL.B who will speak on “Three Bohemians . A special feature in to•i.B the son P playlet, Th Green”, written by Molyneux Fh.llips. There are selections bv !i , rH A r?£, 0 orch r tra and songs by Clifford Lathlean, basso. Lawrence Camp-tfi^-I S «.« < V snt,nu L r,Jr hip “Sentimental SJ?7 e *. and to-night ho will give Hitched and “Beef Tea". There is Lawson sbort Vlolin recital by Lionel

To-night Fees 2FC relaying Charlie Lawrence eonductng community singing at the Ashfield Tows Hall. St Andrew’s Night will be suitably observed by 4QG, by the provision of a studio programme including much that hails from dear old Scotland. At 12.15 a.m. Barney Cook, 4QG’s cricket commissioner, will review the day’s play in the Sheffield Shield match between Queensland and New South Wales, and this feature will be relayed to 2FC, Sydney. Dance music will lie provided from the studio. TO-WIGHT'S CONCERTS. 1 YA, Auckland (329 metres). 11.45 a.m.: Relay results of Takapunu Jockey Club's summer meeting, interspersed with gramophone itiems from the studio. 5.15 (approx.): Close. 2YA, Wellington (416 metres). 7.0: News session. 8.0: Chimes, follo\ved by a relay from the Caledonian Hall of the Wellington Caledonian Society’s St Andrew's/ Day concert. The following songs will be §ung by Miss Gretta Stark, Mr and Mrs Kemp, Messrs Will Hancock and George Stark: “Robin Adair,” “Bonnie Dundee,” “Turn Ye to Me.” “Afton Water,” “The Hundred Pipers,’* “Mary.” Selections will be played by the Wellington Caledonian Society’s Pipe Band, Scottish recitations will be given by Mr Jas. Lothian, and the Chifeftain of the Society will relate some “Pawky Scottish Yarns.” An address appropriate to the day will be delivered by Mr Robert M’Keen, M.P. 10.0 (approx.): Dance programme—Foxtrots, “Handin’ on the Garden Gate,” “Have a Little Faith in Me,” “A Night °f Happiness”; waltz, “Springtime, Lovetime, You”; foxtrots, “I Never Dreamt,” “I’m in the Market for You.” 10.18: Vocal trio, “If I Can’t Have You”; foxtrots, “So Sympathetic,” “Let Me Sing an d I’m Happy,” “Alone with Mv Dreams”; waltz, “Melancholy Moon.” 10.33: Foxtrots, “Just Another Night With You,” “The ’Free and Easy’,” “Take Me”; vocal trio, “Out of the Past.” 10.45; Foxtrots, “I’m on a Diet cf Love,” “Like a Dream,” “We’ll Build a Little© World of Our Own,” “Just Like in a Story Book”; waltz, “It Must Be You.” 11.0: Close. 3YA, Christchurch (306 metres). 7.30: Talk, Mr L. Brice, “Treatment and Care of the Hair.” 8.0: Band programme by Christchurch Municipal Band, assisted by 3YA artists—Band, “Duntroon”; euphonium, Bandsman J. Magrath, “My Pretty Jane.” 8.14: Mezzocontralto, Mrs Nellie Whitworth, “The Enchantress,” “The Bv?at of the Passionate Heart,” “Bells of Brittany.” 8.23: Christchurch Broadcasting Trio, “Melodies Mignon,” “Slave Song,” “Vivace” (Godard). 8.33: Light Opera Company, vocal gems from “Maritana.” 8.41: Band, “W. H. Squire’s Song.” 5.51: Sea shanties, John Goss and Cathedral Male Voice Quartet, “Fire Down Below,” “Hullabaloo Balay,” “Haul Away, Joe,” “What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?”; banjo, Mario de Pietro, “Frivolous Joe.” 9.0: Weather report. 9.2: Broadcasting Trio, “The Red Sarafan,” “Anitra’s Dance,” “Polonaise in A” (Chopin). 9.12: Bass-baritone, Mr Donald M’Culloch, “Less than the Dust,” “Gipsy Love Song,” “Simon the Cellarer.” 9.22: Band, “It is Well,” “Corinella.” 9.33: Soprano, Mrs Lucy O’Brien. “Here in the Quiet Hills,” “My Hero,” “Love’s Own Kiss.” 9.43: Organ. Reginald Foort, “Leave Me Alone,” “Songs NJy Mother Taught Me.” “By the Blue Hawaiian Waters.” 9.53: Band, “Ecstasy,” “Jack o’ Lantern.” 10.5: Close. 4YA, Dunedin (461 metres). 8.0: Special programme depicting “A Social Evening in a Modern Country Barn”—Quadrilles, Dagg’s Band, “Medley Quadrilles.” 8.15: Quartettes, The Harmonists, “Macgn&gor’s Gathering,” “Where My Caravan lias Rested.” “Take Care, Take Care.” “Vespers” (Bonner). 827: Chain-waltz, Dagg’s Band, “Oldtime Melodies.” 8.37: Soprano, Miss Mae Matheson, “I Dreamt that 1 Dwelt in Marble Halls,” “Will o’ the Wisp”; bass, Mr S. Falconer, “Give a Man a "Horse He Can Rid'e.” SAT: Barn Dance, La Rinka and Schottische. Dagg’s Band, “Popular and Old-time Song Medley ” 9.2: Weather report. 9.4: Light Opera Company, “Songs of the Past”; Uncle George’s Part*-, “Nursery Rhymes.” 9.20 D’Alberts. Dagg’s Band. “Medley D’Alberts.” 9.32: Contralto, Miss Margaret Green, “Alas, Thoste Chimes”; tenor, Mr H. A. Johnston, “The Minstrel Boy.” “Passing By.” 9.42: Cornet, Mr R. Shannon, “Silver Threads Among the Gold.” 9.47: Dance medley. Dagg’s Band, “Maxina, Highland Schottische, Waltz.” 10.0: Close.