RADIO IN SUMMER

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 28, 27 January 1928, Page 16

RADIO IN SUMMER

MANY HAPPY HOURS. Now that we New Zealanders have summer with us, radio enthusiasts find an additional way of indulging their hobby. In winter, they sit over the fire and listen-in, but now that the time of the year calls to the open air, radio plays a new part. You find a radio set on a yacht or a motor-launch, the aerial hung between the masts. Or perhaps, the latest toop aerial is employed, being merely a few turns of wire round a frame a cenpie of fect in diameter. Perhaps even a battery for the set is dispensed with, the picnickers using the battery of the Jaunch. RADIO AT SEASIDE. At seaside cottages and in the week-end camps radio sets are beginning to appear, Some are the specially designed portables, which with batteries and aerial complete, are packed in a case about the size of a typewriter. These are highly efficient receivers, but many listeners who do not care to purchase a special set for carrying about, simply take their ordinary set with them, rig up an aerial from a convenient tree, and enjoy the pleasure of.an open-air dance to radio music as re- ceived from a convenient station. Many a pleasant hour is being spent this summer in a bush or seaside camp with the help of a radio set, although there is usually some person in the party who wants to keep the set going until the Australian stations close, de spite the protests of the early birds, who wish to have a night’s rest before an early start in the morning,