FIRST DESPATCHES FROM EGYPT
NBS Now Has _ Bi-Weekly Service .Z.E.F.: news compiled in’ Egypt for broadcast especially to New Zealand listeners was heard here for the first time on November 9. As from that date the NBS began a twice weekly service of broadcast despatches from the field. The N.Z. announcer’s voice came over the air in fairly good reception conditions, and told about the fitness of men acclimatising rapidly, about the inevitable flies, about mail day, and about the services. which are looking after the men’s welfare. This service of despatches will be continued regularly. It will be heard here at 10 p.m. every Wednesday and Saturday and, in case that hour is too late for some listeners, at the beginning of the 9p.m. NBS Newsreel on the night following each relay. Although technical -details of the method have not yet reached New Zealand, it is believed that the despatch is broadcast. by shortwave to. England, where the BBC picks it up and records it at ‘whatever time is most suited to good reception. It is then re-broadcast by one of the big Daventry transmitters and picked up direct in New Zealand for-relay and re= cording.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 74, 22 November 1940, Page 3
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