SHORT-WAVE BROADCASTS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 24, 30 December 1927, Page 5

SHORT-WAVE BROADCASTS

ENGLISH INDIFFERENCE, A Melbourne radio writer says :-‘One cannot help feeling that the success so far achieved trom the British Broadcasting Corporation’s short-wave broadcast station 5SW was distasteful to the British Broadcasting Corporation. His conviction is made stronger by tle halfhearted efforts which have been made in Great Britain to relay Australian programines, and by the fact that one of the finest programmes from 2I1'C, Sydney, which has ever been relayed in. Great Britain was cut off in the middle on the pretext that it was fading. Until the problem of establishing an Iempire service is approached with a little more courage and enthusiasm by the British Broadcasting Corporation \ustralian listeners cannot expect much success in the relaying of British programmes from local ,stations. In contrast to the stand of the British Broadcasting Corporation, it is interesting to note that extensive. improvements and extensions are now being made to the Dutch station PCJ, owned and operated by the Philips Co, It is reported that the station will be working again.

shortly, and that extensive experti- | ments on many different wave lengths will be begun at once. Moreover, an entirely new station for PCJJ, which will be far more powerful than the present one, is being built, and it should be working in May, in time for relaying in the winter from Australian stations,