NO FADING FROM 2YA—IN AUSTRALIA, ANYWAY!

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 12, 7 October 1927, Page 5

NO FADING FROM 2YA—IN AUSTRALIA, ANYWAY!

(By

F. E.

Baume

City Editor, "The Daily+ Guardian,’ Syduey.)

Listening in a couple of nights ago ¥ heard 2YA’s announcer mention that Monday, September 26, would be a special test night for New Zealand, 2YA in particular, that 1YA would be silent, and that New Zealand listeners who noticed fading should report to I am 1200 odd miles from your delightful station. On my four-valve -auto-coupled expert set, I receive you on ’phones as strongly as I get 21°C, 2BL, 2UW, 2UE, 2KY, or 2GB, and on speaker better than Melbourne or Brisbane, always sufficiertt (electrical Storms excluded!) to fill my very big living-room, which is really two fairSized rooms. Bach night at 6 (7.30 your time), I get 2YA, 1YA, or 4YA, making 2VA my specialty. So I was disgusted to tead in the ‘‘N.Z. Free Lance’? what K term a ridiculous attack on your 6000. watts station. Let me say now, that I have miever experienced fading of any consequence from 2YA. On the. other hand, ¥ am content to plug fin-it takes a fraction of a min-uute-adjust my rheostats and re: generation, and listen on a Sunday from 6 to 8.30, my time, without any appreciable fading whatever. I refer. especially to some of the relayed programmes from His Majesty’s Theatre, when the silver band plays. I challenge the "I'ree Lance" to justify their statements. Our own exmd

pert, Ilight-Captain Warneford, D.S.O., says 2YA is the best station outside 2FC and 40G. Oswald Anderson, general manager of 21°C, my close friend, and Burbury, his chief engincer, swear by 2YA; from Queensland to Port Augusta your station is known. I find you more reliable than 5CI, (Adelaide) for power. I like your volume better than 40G; I like your programmes. What more can the "critic" of the ‘Free Lance," always so. refreshiugly general in his comments, require? Here am I, hearing men like Anderson, Maclardy of 2Bl,, Warneford, Harry Turner the inventor, all except myself wireless celebrities, praise 2YA, and then I read the strange "Free Lance" complaint. The only faults I find with 1, 3, 3 and 4YA are:The words New Zealand should be included by announcers as "2YA, Wellington, New Zealand." IYA and 4YA should have thei: wave-length altered, especially 1Y¥A, which clashes with 2BL, so that only super-selective sets like my own can hear it at all-and last (a selfish thought) : Silent nights should be abolished for the sake of about 25,000 of us in New South Wales alone who like your programmes and your station. My testimony for your inquiry: ‘No fading noticed in N.S.W.!" Sydney, September 16,