Thursday April 19

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 39, 13 April 1928, Page 9

Thursday April 19

1¥A AUCKLAND (333 METRES)-THURSDAY, APRIL 19. p.m.: Afternoon session-Selected gramophone items. 0: Literary selection by the Announcer, 10: Further selected gramophone items. 0: Close down. » Children’s hour-Pcter Pan, assisted by the Bayfield School Choir. Twopart song, choir, "The Volga Boatmen." Song, Gladys Keefe, "Scots Wha Ha’e." Recitation, Dallas Lethaby, "When the Minister Comes to Tea." Three-part song, choir, "Star of Peace." Letters and birthdays. | Two-part song, choir, "Absent." — Recitation, Frances Phillips, "Mrs. Skinner." Song, Joyce Edwards, "Love's Old Sweet Song." Peter Pan answers questions sent to the Witch Doctor. Four-part song, choir, "Abide With Me." Storytime. ALPRPW 3 0 7.15: News and market reports. Book review. 8.0: Chimes. : 8.1: Relay of overture from Rialto Theatre "Orchestra, under the direction of Mr. Henry Engel. 3.11: Contralto solo-Miss Martha Williamson, "’Tis the Hour of Farewell" | (Lehmann). 15: Humorous sketch-Mr. T. T. Garland, "A Suburban Service" -(Gros-

8.21: 8.31 8.35: 8.42: 8.46: 9.6: 9.8: 913: 9.17: 9.20: 9.28: 9,33: 9.37 : 9.43: 9,49; 9.53: 10.3: smith). Instrumental trio-Bosworth-Hemus-Towsey Trio, "Trio No. 9, First Movement" (Haydn). Baritone solo-Mr, Barry Coney, "Devon Mine" (Gould). Vocal trio-The Bohemian Trio, popular selections. Soprano solo-Miss Dorothy Youd, "When All Was Young" from "Faust" (Gounod). Elocutionary-Mr. Fred. Barker, "A Wayside Philosopher to His Friend -Enthusiasm." Weather report and forecast. Relay of entr’acte from Rialto Theatre Orchestra, Contralto solo-Miss Martha Williamson, "The Bird With the Broken Wing" (Gibson). Violin solo-Miss Ina Bosworth, "Nocturne in E Flat" (ChopinSarasate). ; Tenor solos-Mr. Geo. Barnes, selected. Humorous sketch-Mr. T, T. Garland, "An Amateur Performance" (Jackson). Baritone solo-Mr. Barry Coney, "I’m a Cornish Man" (Henty). Vocal trio-The Bohemian Trio, "Latest Selections." Elocutionary-Mr. F. Barker and Mr. Culford Bell, "Quarrel Scene" from "Julius Caesar" (Shakespeare). Soprano solo-Miss D. Youd, "Nobil Signore" (Meyerbeer). Instrumental trio-Bosworth-Hemus-Towsey Trio, selection from "Lohengrin" (Wagner). Song cycle-Mr, Barry Coney’s Quartet, "Flora’s Holiday" (Lane-Wilson). 10.15: God Save the King. 2XA WELLINGTON (420 METRES)-THURSDAY, APRIL 19. 3 p.m: Chimes of the General Post Office clock, Wellington. Selected gramophone items, : Sporting results to hand. : Selected gramophone items. : Sporting results to hand. Close down, Children’s hour-Uncle Sandy and pup:ls of Miss Marie Peterson. Song and chorus, Cousin Gerda, "Learn to Smile" (Hinch), Piano solo, Cousin Lily, "Barcarolle’ (Offenbach). Song, Cousin Una, "Obstination" (Fotinailles). Song, Cousin Violet, "The Pipes of Pan Are Calling" (Monkton), Song, Cousin Leila, "Danny Boy" (Weatherby). Duet, Cousins Eva and Gerda, "Come, Sing. to Me" (Thompson). Birthday greetings, Uncle Sandy. Song,

earn. FF ts Often battery trouble will account for most causes of weak signals and distortion, and if the A battery has just been charged it may inadyerently haye been connected with reversed polarity. Should the set be entirely unresponsive and no noise of any kind is audible, this invariably means that there is a disconnection in the A and B supply to the set. If no click is in evidence on plugging in the loudspeaker, the break is in the high tension circuit, but an occasional cause mav be a faulty valve or valve holder If this is suspected, test with a pocket Inmp batterv and .a pair of *phones. Sometimes a ’phone jack is at fault a What is considered to be thé firs? radio-picture club was recently formed in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, with a groun of radio amateurs and engineers as the nucleus. ‘The broadcast: ing station of the district, CTRM, 1s transmitting, cach Mondav nicht, elementary radio pictures, to he picked up hy experimenters in the city. Anyone _ else interested in radion-picture transmis sion can, bv Imildine a simnle set, as outlined by CTRM, follow suit and make an attempt to receive pictures. ‘Mr. D. R. P. Coats. manager of CTRM, is convinced that thev are at the heginning of a new era ia ra¢lic, and says someone must start th? bail rolling The amalgamatith of the Sydney stations 21°C and ZIL has brought scores of letters to the two stations concerned, though but a few days have passed since the commencement of the experiment. On a recent Saturday, while 2EC broadcast the races 2BL supplied an uninterrupted musical programme, and listeners of both classes were well catered for. Under the old arrangements both stations would he broadcasting the results of the races, and it is this duplication of programmes that led to the amalgamation vo! the two stations.

Programmes Continued

Copyright These programmes are copyright, but individual daily. programmes may be published on day of performance.

Cousin Joyce, "A fat li'l feller with his mammy's. eyes" (Gordon). Song, Baby Joyce, "The Lonesome Apple’ (Erb). Song, Cousin Una, "The Indian Love Call" (Frimt). Chorus, cousins, "Funiculi Funicula" (Denza). : News session, market reports, and sports results. 0: Chimes of the General Post Office clock, Wellington. ‘1: March-Salvation Army Silyer Band, "Flag of Ficetiom" (Coles). 5: Quartet-The Metlow Fellows, "While the Sahara Sleeps" (Baer). 9: Selection-Safvation Army Silver Band, "Gems from Mozart" (arr. Hawkes). . 19: Baritone solo-The Baritone Fellow, "Sleep and the Roses" .23: Euphonium solo, with band accompaniment-Bandsman T. Allison, "The Village Blacksmith" (Weide). . 8.30 :Exclamation-Some Fellow, "Jones of the Lancers" $.34: March-Salvation Army Silver Band, "Glory of the Combat" (arr. Coles}. 840: Reminiscences-The Two Old Fellows, "When You and I Were Seventeen" (Bosoff). , 8.44: Meditation-Salvation Army Silver Band, "Hanover" (arr. Ball). 9.0: Weather report. ; 91: Elocutionary-Mr. Cedric Gardiner, (a2) "Dulcie-I Love Thee" (Anon.) ; (b) "Lf" (Caine). 9.7: Band-Salvation Army Silver Band, "In This Hour of Softened Splendour" (Pinsuti). 9.11: Bass solo and quartet-The Bass Fellow and the Other Fellows, "The Old Brigade" (Trotere). : 9.15: March-Salvation Army Silver Band, "Canada West" (arr. Leidzen). $20: Song-The Tenor Fellow, "The Fold" (Squire). 9.24: Hymn-Salvation Army Silver Band, "Aberystwyth" (traditional), 9.27: Jumble sale-The Funny Fellow, "Stories" (original). 9.32: March-Salvation Army Silver Band, "Seaham Harbour." 9.37: Quartet-Fellows, "De New Year" (Scott-Gatty}. $41: Selection-Salvation Army Silver Band, "Elijah" (Mendelssohn, arr. Hawkes). 9.51: Elocution-Mr. Cedric Gardiner, "The Serial Picture" (Alsop). 9.56: March-Salvation Army Silver Band, "The Firing Line" (Coles) 10.0: God Save the King. © 60 te GOS 60 O35 3YA CHRISTCHURCH (306 METRES)-THUCRSDAY, APRIL 19. 3 pm.: Afternoon concert session-Selected studio items. 4.25: Sports results, 4.30: Close down. 6.0: Children’s hour-Chuckle. Birthday greetings, stories, choruses, and songs by scholars from Sydenham School. 7.15: News session. 7.30: Lecture-Mr. G. A. Holmes, B.Sc., under the auspices of the Canterbury Progress League, "The Development of Farm Economics at Lincoln College." §.9: Chimes. Overture-New Light Symphony Orchestra, "A Hunt in the Black Forest" (Voelkar). Concert by Madame Gower-Burns’s Grand Opera Quartet, who will present "The Daisy Chain," by Liza Lehmann. 8.5: Vocal quartet-Grand Opera Quartet, "Foreign Children." Contralto solo-Mrs. Ann Harper, "Fairies." Baritone solo-Mr. Bernard Rennell, "Keepsake Mill." Soprano solo-Madame Gower-Burns, "If No One Ever Marries Me." Tenor solo-Mr. Harold Prescott, "Stars." Vocal quartet-Grand Opera Quartet, "Seeing the World." Contralto solo-Mrs. Ann Harper, "The Ship that Sailed into the Sun." Soprano solo-Madame Gower-Burns, "The Swing." Baritone solo-Mr. Bernard Rennell, "Mustard and Cress." Tenor solo-Mr. Harold Prescott, "The Moon." Vocal quartet-Grand Opera Quartet, "Thank You Very Much, Indeed." Vocal quartet-Grand Opera Quartet, "Blind Man’s Bluff." Weather report and forecast. 9.0: 9.1: Overture-Royal Opera Orchestra, "Eugin Onegin" (Tschaikowsky). 9.5: Recitation-Miss Naare Hooper, "A Nightmare" (Gilbert). 9.9: Fiute solo-Mr. W. Hay, "Im Rosenduft" (Stickmist). £.13: Tenor solo-Mr. Harold Prescott, "When the Bloom is on the Rye" (Stevens). 9.17: Instrumental trio-Christchurch Broadcasting Trio, "Andante Espressivo and Scherzo, Op. 66" (Mendelssohn), 9.27: Contralto solo-Mrs. Ann Harper, "Rest at Midday" (Hamilton). 9.31: Pianoforte solo-Miss Aileen Warren, "La Fileuse" (Raff). 9.35: Soprano solo-Madame Gower-Burns, "Tell Me, My Heart" (Bishop). 9.40: Flute solo-Mr. W. Hay, "Valse Gracieuse" (Sabathiel). . 9.45: Baritone solo-Mr. Bernard Rennell, "A Cartload of Hay" (EmmitAdams). 9,49: Instrumental trios-Christchurch Broadcasting Trio, (a) "Elegie and Lonearayon" (Atherton); (b) "Valse of the Flowers" (Tschaiowsky). 9.59: Recitations-Miss Naare Hooper, (a) "Oh, to be in Iceland Now" (Doe); (b) "Ze Kick Ball" (Hodges).

There are New Zealand listeners who are ahvays "‘cracking up" the Australian programmes, ‘This is what a Sydney listener writes to the Sydney "Wireless Weekly" :-‘What about putting on more entertainers and less of picture show music, as there is nothing in listening to a lot of laughing? I don’t wonder people get tired of wireless. One time we had theatre acts from 2BL, Studio. All my friends say they all enjoyed them; but even they are taken off. I suppose the fights are put on instead. We know they cannot please everybody, but it is time they gave us better programmes than what they give us at present. Another had practice is to stop music, etc., to give out race results, etc. It looks like if wireless is only for the sporting class."’ An Australian listener writes as follows, about the Australian stations, to the Sydney ‘Wireless Weekly’’:-‘‘It is time that the A class stations woke up. One can quite agree with the P.M.G., when he states that the proerammes are not up to the mark. Sundavs, to these stations, seems to he a day when they can put over anything witheut getting justified complaints. ‘Thank goodness that the great majority of sane listeners are beginning to wake up, and demand a little return for their hard-earned license money. Not only Sunday programmes, but the whole week of entertainment from the A class stations leaves much to be desired."?" And yet some New Zealanders quote the Australian programmes as a paragon. Semetimes noises are caused by faulty valves themselves, and if the noises are only weak, maybe caused by the last audio valve. This is easily tested by the substitution of the valye. A most common source 4a:S0 lies with the grid leak; and this is capable of causing hissing noises which in the case of a multi-valve set will develop into quite a roar owing to the amplification. The. poor connection of. a valve pin with the valye socket is also often productive of the trouble. Not infrequently the loudspeaker or telephones are at thie back of the trouble, owing to fracturing of the wires close to the ear pieces or unit. ‘This sounds improbable, but is quite true:-crackling noises on a sensitive multi-valve set were induced by a bad contact in the lead-in of a next door aerial, used in conjunction with a crystal set. ‘The soldering of this poor connection increased the crystal users’ signal strength over 40 per cent. At the last meeting of the Radio Council of Austria the subject of an improved news service was discussed, and the Austrian Newspaper Proprietors’ Association is being approached with a renewed appeal that they should allow more news to be distributed in this way. ‘There were also complaints that too much time is now occupied with the popular language courses in Ifnglish, Vreneh, and Italian, and the proposal is under consideration that after the present season there should he only conversation lessons in these languages, beginners getting their preliminary instruction elsewhere, if they have not followed steadily the present courses. For the present there will, of course, be neo alteration, and tens of thousands are taking the language courses of Professor McCallum, M. Riviere, and Signor Traversa with regularity and enthusiasm. Distorted reception is bound to occur with faulty audio frequency transformers. Although the windings of primary and secondary may be continuous without a break, yet it so happens that a few. turns become shorted owing to break-down of the insulation covering the wire. This sets up small parasitic eddy currents which manifest ‘| themselves in the form of distortion in | the final reproduction, A lady organist applying for a broad- | casting caniract in America said she knew 8000 tunes by heart. The lady ‘in question also offered to play continuously for twenty-four horse witbput a break, and with no repeated numbers, ports having heard JHBB, the station of the Hiraiso Radio Laboratories of Abrikikem, Japan. He says, ‘Many seem to get the call sign mixed up. When I first sent in a report on this | station’s transmission, it was using + crystal control, and operating on a wayelength of 39.6 metres, but now it is operating on 87.5 metres, and signs off every night in code, and gives the times | of transmission. It comes through louder thart the Russian station, RFN. It uses R.A.C. Announcements are in | both Japanese and English, The other | night it announced that it would relay Kobe. | | An Australian short-wave listener reCanned Music" (Patea), writes: "I prefer to spell ‘loudspeaker,’ as I have written it here. I notice many papers make it ‘lond speaker’-two separate words. Which is correct. and why ?"- as a loudspeaker is a distinct portion of a radio receiving equipment, and for the same reason that ‘‘motor-car"’ is spelt as one word, "Switch’? can conceive no good reason for splitting it into two words, One never dubs the article a "soft sneaker,’ even if it does not reproduce loudly. The adjective ‘Jond" has 10 separate place in this case, but becomes joined to denote a certain article, O_O IO LOO LL eT lee

10.4: 10.8: i ae oe Dee so go MOONNN w iS) Re >_> Ne ge S Pianoforte solo-Miss Aileen Warren, "Cradle Song, Op. 49, No. 4" (Brahms-Grainger), God Save the King. 4YA DUNEDIN (463 METRES)-THURSDAY, APRIL 19, p.m. : Town Hall chimes. Request grainophone concert, : News. session. Town Hall chimes. Light orchestral music from Octagon Theatre, under the direction of Mons de Rose. : Humorous song-Mr. Percy James, "Tut, Tut" (Mills). : Banjo solos-Mr. Jack McNeil, (a)" Take Your Pick’ (Mandel); (b) "Caprice of the Butterflics" (Bickford). : Humorous sketch-The Two Blue Ducks, "Querulous Quacks-First Episode." : Light soprano solo-Miss Roma Buss, "The Love Nest,’ from "Mary" (Hirsch). : Saxophone solo-Mr. J. McCaw, "Saxema" (Weidoeft). : Humorous song-Miss Billie Lorraine, "Ain’t It a Grand And Glorious Feefing" (Ager). : Humorous song-Mr, Billy Gay, "There’s a Trick in Pickin’ a Chicken" (Goetz). : Orchestral interlude from Octagon Theatre. : Humorous sketch and duet-Miss Billie Lorraine and Mr. Percy James. Weather report and forecast. Humorous entertainment-Mr. Percy James. : Banjo solo-Mr. Jack McNeil, "Highflyer" (Morris). : Humorcus address-Pastor W. D. More. : Soprano solos-Miss Roma _ Buss, (a) "Tact," from ‘"Floradora" (Stuart); (b) "The Lilac Domino" (Cuvillier). : Saxophcne solos-Mr. J. McCaw, (a) "One Fleeting Hour" (Lee); (b) "Blushes" (King), : Light vocal solo-Miss Billie Lorraine, "It All Depends On You". (Brown). : Humorous sketch-The Two Blue Ducks, "Querulous Quacks-Second Episode." : Humorous songs-Mr. Billy Gay, (a) "Mamma’s Gone Young, Papa’s Gone Ofd" (Weston); (b) "I Can’t Get Over a Girt Like You" (Broones). : God Save the King.