AMATEURS AND MUSIC

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 10, 23 September 1927, Page 5

AMATEURS AND MUSIC

The Commonwealth Director of Postal Services (Mr. H. P. Brown) intends to take steps to stop amateur wireless transmitters from broadcasting musical items as part of their experimental work. ‘his appears to be a retrograde step, and requires some explanation. Anent the above the Melbourne "Argus" says: ‘‘Aat present half a dozen or more very fine amateur stations are regularly combining their experiments with the transmission of firstclass programmes, which ate used by thousands of broadcast listeners. These progrmames are particularly valued by listeners because they are broadcast at a time when the main stations are nto transmitting. The amateur stations are, therefore, a valuable adjunct to the A class and B class stations in Meibourne. Tlow far the Postmaster-Gen-eral’s Department intends to carry the threat to see that these stations do not combine musical programmes wih their experiments has not been announced, but if any attempt is made to limit the present operations of the stations there will be protests from thousands of listeners."