ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 3, 5 August 1927, Unnumbered Page

ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES

i. _ G.C.M., Knox College, Dunedin.-Yes, the super-heterodyne is the only frame aerial that would cover your inquiry. . Your best course, however, ‘is to state your position fully to a local dealer, and accept his advice. The autoplex circuit works wonderfully well on a small aerial of the type you desire, and is cheap to construct. We cannot satisfactorily cover all your questions in correspondence, and suggest your personal contact with a competent adviser. "‘Listener-in,’’ Matamata, suggests that squealing and howling in country districts would be eliminated by a competent dealer or listener installing a transmitting station .and" rehroadcasting, to enable crystal set users to get good reception. Yes, this can he done, provided you have the combination of enthusiasm and capacity on the part of some qualified person, as it would be necessary for him to be a licensed amateur transmitter, permission for which is procured from the Department, and he must pass an examination for a license to transmit. Some radio clubs now are broadcasting programmes on this basis. W.J.B., Onehunga, makes a number of suggestions, some of which have already been adopted and incorporated in our columns. Others will be added as opportunity offers. It is impossible to publish a jist of the small New Zealand stations, such «as 1ZB, 1ZO, etc, and their times, as these latter are generaily irregular.