HAWKE'S BAY NOTES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 4, 12 August 1927, Page 12

HAWKE'S BAY NOTES

' It is-with very marked pleasure that pre is able to record a very noticeable mprovement in the programmes which .are being sent out from 1YA, 2YA, and 8YA-up this way. We never worry. guch about 4YA, for that station apypears to have "‘gone to the pack" com"pletely. At odd intervals 4YA dishes ‘ap transmission which is really worth while, but so seldom is it that it is generally missed, | Whilst one must express pleasure at the improvement in programmes from ‘OYA, it is still a fact that the station stil! fades just as badly as ever, ant until this fanlt is remedied, 2YA is not foing to be as popular with local listen@rs as either LYA or SYA, YA fades badly at times, but it is not in the ‘same street as 2YA, and 8YA is looked ‘ipo as. the best station up here. At the last meeting of the Ilastings "Radio Society (or as it is now styled Hawke’s Bay Radio Society), there was 4 general grouse about Anterference of all kinds. More signals came in for trouble, and a was passed urgine the Postmaster-General to do something to climinate this. The trouble is that the Morse stations are ‘Mol keeping a set 600 metre limit, and that is where the Government can take action. Howling valves were also freely discussed, and a sub-committee was set up to bring down a recommendation as to the best way to deal with this. A resolution on similar lines to that passed by the Auckland Listeners’ League will probably be the result, but an addition will likely be made that it be the duty of the radio inspectors to make periodical inspections of all receivers. Interference {rom motors and powerline. leaks was a hot topic, and this was .also referred to the sub-committee % investigate. Matters are moving along very quietly in connection with the proposed local Station, but will be brought to a head very shortly. The annual meeting of the society was held on Monday night (8th), and the issue of debentures for the raising cf the cash was a main tonic of discussion. ‘I'he issue of these will be under way yery shortly, and if the resnonse is as good as expected, in. ‘a month or six weeks there should be something doing.