RADIO NOTES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 664, 17 October 1933, Page 3

RADIO NOTES

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j Many favourable report.s have been | heard eoncerning ,the local reception j of 1ZS Auckland. This station is now 1 owned by Radio Ltd., and several I nights last w'eek was easily the best j of the Auckland stations. j JVIiv Broadmore, who recently took j up- liis residence in Rotorua, is on the 1 air again with a new transmitter. His j call sign is" 1DV. ' i On.Sunday afternoo'n conditions appeared to be excellent for amateur' | transmitters using phone., Quite a : number were heard at greater i strength than usual and a two-valve set was ampie for loudspeaker recep- , tion. It would appear that Russia intends to lead the world in the construction j of powerful transmitters. Being sat- ! isfied with the performance of the 500 kilowatt station at Moscow-Nog-j hinsk, thty are now considering the ■' construction of a 1000 kilowatt transmitter.

I Several makes of automobile radio' sets are now on the New Zealand market. The latest models have a selfcontained rectifier, doing away with the need for. B batteries, and the only I connections for power supply is two wires to the A battery. The total eurrent eonsumed by these se.s is approximately 5 amps, so that the drain on the battery is not excessive; These sets should prove exceptionally popular with motorist campers, &1though there will be discord in the camps if several receivers are tuned into different stations at the same time. To read some advertisements one is lcd to believe that they have only to get into the radio business to make a .fortune. While 110 one can f orete 11 what what radio will eventually lead to, there is no doubt that at the present time there is an excess of dealers and service men. Mushroom factories are springing up everywhere and in some cases have resorted to price-cutting to get their goods on

the markpt. Complete sets are being offered at considerably less than the cost of the parts. if purchased in the ordinary way. There is, of course, no after saies service and the quality of bpth maferial and workmanship has suffered in an endeayour to keep down the price.- it is reported .that one large Australian firm whose name was until recently kept promincntly before. the New Zealand public is in / liquidation and .it is known that seve- ' ral prominent New Zealand firms are not too happy over their dealings in radio. As one radio joqfnal states, the no-profit fellows rise like rockets "and descend like pricked balloons, but while they are up in the air the lot of the dealer and serviceman, especially in the cities, is not a happy one. | There will be a popular programme on Thursday evening, when 2YA will relay from the Wellington Town Hall the final community sing of the season, A number of the city's foremost artists will assist. Excellent entertainment should be available from 4YA on Friday evening, the concert programme being provided by. the Dunedin Orph'ans' Club. The approach of summer means an increase in the number of racing broadcasts. From 2YA at noon on Thursday there will be the first day of the Wellington meeting, while on Saturday there will be the choice of the second day of the Wellington meeting or the Auckland Trotting Club's meeting from 1YA.