WIRELESS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20360, 18 July 1934, Page 4

WIRELESS.

Notes and News From Far and Near. (By “AERIAL") New Zealand radio inspectors stand in the position of guides and friends to listeners. From end to end of New Zealand inspectors are always ready to listen to a reasonable request. Things are different in some European countries, where radio is looked upon as something too dangerous—from a political view—to be in the hands of the public. In these enlightened days it is hard to realise that, in some places, radio is permitted only to a very limited circle. In these countries the radio administration is in the hands of the police or the military. Imagine the feelings of a listener when an officer, armed like a travelling arsenal and backed by a file of soldiers, asks to see a “ permit to receive.” reception continues to be excellent, and listeners are being offered excellent fare. Programmes are nicely balanced and, whatever one’s taste, there is always something acceptable. Just another instance of "cheap” radio servicing. A Christchurch man owns a radio set which had gone out of action. He was persuaded by a friend who had a friend who knew someone “ very clever with wireless ” to give this man the repairing. The “ expert ” replaced electrolytic condensers and a number of valves, and all the set would do was to make a noise something like the “ ra.spberry ” that used to be a feature of the earlier American talkies. The ** expert ” returned the set with the intimation that it had him bluffed, and “never before, in all his experience had he struck sucli a thing.” A few days later a serviceman employed by a city radio' store took the set in hand and delivered it back—four hours after—in perfect order. The fault lay in the (speaker. It is unnecessary to point out the moral.