The Editor, "The Listener." Sir,-I agree with -" Bored" — partly. It is no earthly use publishing particulars of any station which operates on a frequency or with power so low that it is impossible to hear it in this country, On the other hand, if Budapest can be heard on "one
cat power," or Timbuctoo on "one flea power," I venture to say that this sort of news is welcome to more readers than " Bored"’ realises. While I am on the job, just a little criticism of your " News Bulletins in English" and the " Empire Service." To my mind you waste a lot of valuable space in these features. The information given is welcomed by many, but why give all the frequencies used, when so many are not audible here at the times given? My idea is to select those frequencies best heard in New Zealand, at the different times, and leave the others out. Also, why cover the 24 hours when few will listen from, say, midnight till 6 a.m.? One more point. The schedules for Daventry are mainly correct, but I am afraid that this cannot be said for many of the foreign stations, either time or frequency. Information which is not correct, or doubtful, is best left out, and I know as well as you do how difficult it is to guarantee correctness in these cases. Yours, etc.,
B.C.
L.
Wellington, March 26, 1940.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 43, 19 April 1940, Page 10
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