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Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 37, 30 March 1928, Page 4

In order to spread the message of radio, the largest and newest of Berlin’s broadcast stations has equipped a huge van automobile to bring its programunes to remote communities. The car is really a good-will agent, as it travels about Berlin and environs transmitting programmes to the home station, for re-transmission on the regular wave. In Ifurope, the license fees paid by set owners provide the revenue for broadcasters, who are therefore directly interested in increasing their nuniber. With the apparatus installed in the motor van programmes may be picked np at points around the city and trans | mitted to the central station, where they are put on the air on the regular waye, Part of the equipment is a powerful receiving set with which the #uburbanites of Berlin are treated to excellent programmes,

Many letters were received by WJZ (New York, 30,000 watts) following a complete programme carried out without the aid of announcers, The experiment proved a great success, since the programmes continued smoothly and screnely, unpunctured with the verbal expressions and interjections of the ‘studio announcer, and it is expected that many other stations will follow this example. The programmes, however, are published in the Press. Don’t expect to obtain sweet-toned music from your loudspeaker if you are using 90 volts (or more) "B" battery potential on your last audio valve if you are not employing a "C" battery, What is the good of owning an expensive set which gives you poor tone? Descriptions of grand operas now being produced in Sydney by J. C. Williamson, Ltd., accompanied by music, are being broadcast weekly by 310, Melbourue,