RADIO REVIEW

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 69, 18 October 1940, Page 47

RADIO REVIEW

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Greetings from Warrnambool A confirmation received from Warrnambool by D. Duff, of Dunedin, reads: "We acknowledge with many thanks receipt of your interesting report. It is gratifying to know that 3YB, 1210 kc/s, is being heard so well so far afield. We have pleasure in confirming the accuracy of the log submitted by you. Thank you for submitting a report of this station. H. S. Fuller, Manager. P.S. Give my regards to the boys.-VK3HF." (VK3HF was the call sign of Harry Fuller's amateur station which was one of the regulars. The "boys" will heartily reciprocate the greetings.-DX.Ed.) Women and the BBC Listeners have no doubt heard the women announcers on the BBC staff. We have just read some English listeners’ opinions, as expressed in the daily press, concerning the suitability of women as announcers, Here’s one: "Said old Euripides, ‘’Tis woman’s nature, given many listeners, to air her ills with mournful pleasure.’ The BBC is feminine enough." And again: "The BBC does not adequately avail itself of the services of women. After the affectation of male announcers it would be a relief to hear the clear enunciation and pure tone of a woman’s voice." Which is one for and one against. However it is a fact that in commercial radio @ woman announcer is seldom " featured." "Fan" Letter to WGEA-WGEO | From the Belgian Congo comes word of a gold prospector who, despite trouble with rats getting into his radio and having his nearest Post Office 200 miles away, finds time to offer friendly criticism. of the Schenectady, N.Y., French language programmes on shortwave. In closing, the writer explained that if his letter was a little rough it was because a man must be rough "in the wild bush in the heart of Belgian Congo where grass is like trees, trees like bush and bush like 4 Shortwave Notes VPD2 at Suva, Fiji, is on the air every day on 9.535 mc/s from 5 to 5.30p.m., relaying the BBC news in French at 5.15 p.m. The BBC Home Service heard through GSW on 7.23 mc/s from 5 p.m. is now audible also through a new transmitter in the 49 metres band. It was on 6.14 mc/s last week but has now shifted to 6.15 mc/s and has excellent signal strength. TIRH is a new station at San Jose, Costa Rica, operating on 6.15 mc/s with 250 watts power and should reach New Zealand in the afternoons.