Over The AERIAL

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19313, 20 July 1934, Page 9

Over The AERIAL

BY RHEOSTAT

THE COIVUNG WEEK. Sunday. — IYA: 11, church service; 3.30, talk; 7, service from Beresford Street Congregational Church; 8.30, studio concert. 2YA—II, church service; 7, service from St. Peter’s Anglican Church; 8.15, studio concert. 3YA—II, church service; 2.45, talk; G. 30, service from Knox Presbyterian Church; 8.30, concert from 4YA, Dunedin.

Monday.—lYA: Talks, 3.30 “Home Science,’’ 7,30 “Early Potato Crops’’; 8, Gilbert and Sullivan programme; 9, relay of wrestling; 10,30, dance music. 2YA Talks, 3 “Home Science,” 7.40 “Tips to Motorists"; 8, studio concert; 9, relay of wrestling; 10, dance music. 3YA —Talks, 11, “Books and Persons,” 2.30 “Home Science”; 7.30, W.E.A. session; 8, studio concert; 10.30, dance music. Tuesday.— iYA: 1.50, educational session; 7.30, book review; 8, recordings; 10, dance musio. 2YA—--11.30, health talk; 2, educational session; 7.40, agricultural talk; 8, studio concert; 10.30, dance music. 3YA—Talks, 11 “Fashions,” 7.35 “Books”; S, Mayor’s relief concert and community sing; 10.30, dance music.

Wednesday.— lYA: 12.30, community singing; 7.40, W.E.A. session; 8., studio concert; 10, Rugby talk; 10.30, dance music. 2YA —10, opening of Women’s Institutes Conference; 12.30, community singing; 7.35, gardening talk; 8, recordings; 10.30, dance music. 3YA—Talks, 11, "Great Women,” 11.30 “Diet”; 1.50, educational session; 7.35, Addington stock market report; 8, studio concert; 10, Rugby talk; 10.30, dance music. Thursday.— lYA: 12.30, service from St. Matthew’s Church; 8, studio concert; 5.20, one-act play; 10.30, dance music. 2YA—3, home science talk; 7.40, W.E.A. .session; 8, studio concert; 10.30, dance music. 3YA — 12.15, community singing; talks, 2.30 “Home Science,” 7.35 “Fur Farming”; 8, recordings: 10.30, dance music. Friday. —lYA: 7.30, sports talk; 8, studio concert; 10.30, dance music. 2 YA—Talks, 11.30 “Public Health Subjects," 7.40 “Arbor Day”; 8, studio concert; 9.30, dance music. 3YA—II, talk, “Feeding Ihe Family”; 7.35, W.E.A. session; 8, studio concert; 10.30, dance music.

Saturday. — IYA: 3, Rugby relay; 7.30, horticultural talk; 8. studio concert; 10, spoils summary; 10.10, dance music. 2YA—2.45, Rugby relay; 7.40, W.E.A. session; 8, studio concert; 9, spoiling programme; 10.30, dance music. 3YA —8, studio concert; 9, recital by Russian tenor; 10, sports summary; 10,10, dance music.

RADIO INTERFERENCE. CLEARING THE ETHER. WORLD-WIDE CAMPAIGN. Radio scientists are at work on a plan for clearing the ether and stamping out wireless interference by means of the world-wide listening system which they are launching in cooperation with the 8.13. C. The World Radio Research League was set up by Britain's leading authorities on wireless less than a fortnight ago.

II is now more than 10,000 strong, and the Wireless League( the national organisation which looks alter Hie interests of listeners) lias announced ils intention of supporting the movement.

Members of (he newly-formed Research League in all parts of Great Britain and in many foreign countries will begin their preparations during May for the first experiment.® This will be in connection with the effort lo solve the mystery of shortwave wireless signals being echoed back to the earth by a mysterious “blanket” of cosmic matter at various enormous distances —even 2,000,000 miles away.

The first experiment will take the form of a signal radiated from the 8.8.C.’s short-wave station at Daventry. Listeners will be asked to tune into the signal and report as to the time they received it and the quality of the reception. Then, in a few weeks’ time, the vexed question of how best to solve radio interference will receive attention. “We believe that massed listening is the only way to solve that problem," a high official of the Research League told a Daily Mail reporter. “The plan which scientists have in mind in regard to interference Is such that listeners whose sets are not equipped with short-wave units will also be able to help, whereas for the radio-echoes problem short-wave sets are required." WIRELESS IN CARS. POPULARITY JN AMERICA. The popularity of the wirelessequipped cars in the United Stales is attested by the sale of 700,000 iast year, it is expected that the million figure will he reached this year. Today the demand lias grown to such an extent that the majority , of new cars, including those of the inexpensive variety, are wired in the factory for reception. Big concerns, realising that there is money in the business, soon began to make and lo market their own special- sets, prices for a good standard apparatus with installation ranging from £6 to £lO. The first cars equipped with wireless were seen in America less Ilian four years ago. To-day, out of 20odd million vehicles, it is estimated ! that 1 in 17 in the private category I lias wireless equipment, enabling the i owner lo “listen-in” on the city street j or country road just, as well as if lie were at home. In some Stales pro- I lesl was made against wireless cars on llic ground of public safely, bul the courts —in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, for example—heard 1 evidence and rendered judgment |o j the contrary. There is imw one great : field of 10,000 eaiis in New York idly. ! every one of which is equipped wild I wireless. I