2YA HEARD IN IOWA.

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 20, 2 December 1927, Page 4

2YA HEARD IN IOWA.

RECORD LONG-DISTANCE RECEPTION The latest mail from America and Canada brings reports of the far range of the New Zealand stations. The change to the shorter days in the Northern Hemisphere is no doubt greatly responsible for the improved reception. The reports — show that an increasing number of _ people in the Eastern States of | America and in Canada are sitting _ up till the early hours of the morn: ing in order to listen-in to New _ Zealand. , ‘he record long distance report to. date comes from Iowa, where Mr. I’. W. Work, of ‘Tiffin, reports having heard 2YA, and specially meutions the singing of Miss Nora Greene. He remarks on the reception by his sevenvalve set: ‘"Sonietimes the programme came in so lond on the speaker that ® could easily be heard all over a large nine-roomed house, and then would completely fade away." But, while the reception of 2YA in lowa, one of the’ CenStates of America, is a wonderful tribuie to the power of this station, a more remarkable achievement is the hearing of 8YA in North Dakota, only a few hundred miles short of QYA’s record Mr. M. WH. Kirkeby, of Kramer, North Dakota, reports that on. October 25 he heard 8YA very clearly. One item he mentions for the purpose of proof was "lake in the Sun, Hang Out the Moon," played by Derry’s Military Band. ‘ Another remarkable reception of 2YA is conveyed in a report fom Saskatchewan, in Canada, just across the border from North Dakota. Here a man at Bangor, with a two tube home-made set, listened-in to 2YA. Reports of the reception of 2YA come frequently from California, and t»wo other reports come from Alaska, 8000 miles away. One correspondent in San Pedro, California, comments thus on his reception of 2YA: "Yast Saturday we had a DX party. A number of radio fans from Flollywood were present, and they sure gof a kick from listening to your station and enjoyed it very much. Some of them were movie stars."? Another correspondent: seems to have as yet a hazy idea of geography or a high opinion of the scope of operations of the Radio Broadcasting Company. He says: ‘ast year I had the very good fortune to receive a programme from your Brisbane station." , A Canadian radio writer, in the course of an article in the ‘British Columbia Colonist,’? Vancouver, remarks :-'I have listened to 2YA several times, and have had no difficulty in following his programmes. Occasionally his signals come in with astonishing volume and clarity. Once I listened for over an hour, during which time only once did he fade out so far that I fost all but his carrier, "Those of his programmes that I have heard were excellent and gave the impression of well-organised and professionally managed chamber coucerts. They are characterised by pleasing variety and talent of a high order. His broadcasts always conclude with the National Anthem, a custom which, find, is common to all Australian «and New Zealand broad-casters-those at least that I have listened to--and one that might well be emulated by our Canadian stations.’? |