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Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 25, 6 January 1928, Page 15

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Query Answrered.

R. S.

Crawshaw

(New Plymouth) _

Yhe short-wave station broadcasting a football match, which a correspondent picked up on Sunday morning, November 27, was 2XAD, New York, relayjing station WGY of that city, on short waves. ‘The foutball match was the annual Army v. Navy inatch. The transmission was very clear, «nd I conld work the speaker with it at times, The announcer apologised for the noise of trausmission from the football stadium, which he said was due to the noise of the great crowd and the roar of acroplane engines. The cheering of the great crowd was very plain, and the West Point Band could be heard at the

close of the match, which ended in a win for the Army by 1d points to 9. ‘The station closed at 4.49, New York time, which was about 10.20 a.m. our time. 1 also had this station the two previous Sunday -mornings with football broadcasts, Harvard University heing ove of the teams on one occasion, I did not hear this station last Sunday morning (December 4). The conditions may have been unfavourable or the football season may have ended in America; but this station is well worth listening to on Sunday mornings when it is yoing. In conelusion, just a word of appreciation on the Otaki Maori College concert, which was one of the best concerts I have received from your station, both in quality and transmission, which was particularly good till within the last half honr, when fading and mushiness set in. Let’s have some more of this popnlar type of concert instead of the usual preponderance of "high-brow" music, which is far too much a feature of all New Zealand stations,