THE GROWING MENACE OF "BLOOPERS"

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 13, 14 October 1927, Page 5

THE GROWING MENACE OF "BLOOPERS"

~ HOW CAN THE NUISANCE BE SUPPRESSED? Interference from oscillating sets is reaching 3 high pitch in most populated centres of New Zealand, and the suburbs of Wellington are by no means immune from the trouble, There are newly-installed sets that whistle continuously fora half-hour on end, others that mop up all before . them, and blanket signais completely out with the effect of intense fading. Then there are countless specimens of the wrist-developing variety that work their sets on and off the edge of oscillation for. an hour or so, never _ tiring of trying to catch another few notes of music from that distant but elusive station. One wonders whether these operators would change their ways if they only could know how they mar the enjoyment of so many of their neighbours. We have one thing to be thankful for here in Wellington, -if is hardly possible to oscillate on 2YA’s carrier, and therefore that Station’s programmes are enjoyed to the fullest extent. The present inferno of oscillation after 10 p.m. and on silent nighis ‘ will automatically militate against the proper increase in the number of licenses, Any person who cannot tune in a main station of New Zealand or Australia without creating a disturbance is committing an offence against all other listeners around him, and causing unnecessary irritation. In many cases the offenders are well-known to the neighbours, but owing to the danger of creating bad relationship, nothing is done to remind the "bloopers" of their sins. Official action of some kind is very necessary to abate the nuisance, The present behaviour of the one and two-valvers is such as to ensure a demand for an early curtailment of their ruthless and persistent interference. c] Owners of sets, large or small, should make a point of getting instruction from a technical friend as to the method of tuning-in without, or with _ the minimum of, oscillation. All listeners should recognise that it is only by the polite use of the ether and consideration for the rights of others, that broadcasting can become the useful and entertaining medium that it has set out to be.