RADIO REVIEW

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 64, 13 September 1940, Page 47

RADIO REVIEW

Contributed by

N.Z. DX R.A. Inc.

Address all Communications: P.O. Box 437, DUNEDIN.

September 21, when no doubt some of the Australian stations will be on the air later than usual. "Ts Australian elections will take place on Saved by Amateur Radio It will be recalled that recently we mentioned that an American amateur had collapsed while in contact with a New Zealand "ham." D. Brown, exZLIHY, Waihi, has kindly supplied the following details: "A ‘Zedder’ was ‘ragchewing’ with Clyde De Vinna when the latter was overcome by stove fumes. The New Zealander, becoming alarmed, raised a W6 in San Francisco and told him that he suspected something was wrong. The San Franciscan managed to contact an Alaskan ‘ham,’ who, putting on his snowshoes, mushed over to De Vinna’s cabin and broke the door open. This story was given great publicity in the U.S.A. "The San Francisco man was the late Colonel Claire Foster, a millionaire, whose every move. was news. I never could find out who the New Zealander was-it was suggested that it was a chap in the Chatham Islands." (Thanks, Mr. Brown. Now will some of our American readers obtain any American references, please? ---DX. Ed) Sydney Reception of 2YA An Australian listener recently wrote us and, among other things, stated: "Listened to 2YA last night. The station comes in well. I like the bass note." German Ban on Listening According to "Journal des Telecommunications," Berne, Switzerland, the following are the main points of the German decree of August 30, 1939. 1. Listening to foreign transmissions is prohibited. Violation of this instruction renders persons liable to forced labour or prison. The machine of the guilty parties will be confiscated. 2. Whoever disseminates news from foreign transmissions shall be condemned to forced labour, or in serious cases, to death. 3. Violations of this decree will te judged and punished by the special courts. 4. Acts committed in the performance of official duties are not covered by these instructions. The administrative regulations were to be published by the Reich Minister of Education and Propaganda, and violation of any such regulations entailed punishment by forced labour or imprisonment. Television News "Large Screen Television" is the slogan of the Allen B. Dumont Laboratories, New Jersey, which has discontinued all activities on small picture television receivers. "Television long ago passed through the ‘head-phone’ stage, just as did sound broadcasting in its earlier days. To-day, the public is interested in large images that can be comfortably viewed by a group," stated Allen B. Dumont personally.