EMPIRE BROADCASTS.

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 39, 13 April 1928, Page 4

EMPIRE BROADCASTS.

The indication of Mr, Maclurcan, the well-known Sydney aniateur, who is now on a visit to Britain, that he sees no reason why Empire broadcasts should not be a feature of life in the near future, will revive interest in this topic. Mr. Maclurcan expressed his views after paying a "special visit to the transmitting station of Mr. Gerald Marcuse. This station has achieved good results with low power, and may take the ‘eredit for directly stimulating the British Broadcasting Corporation into "welcome activity with 5SW. The regular reports by such well-known New Zealand amateurs as Mr. Sellens of reception from 5SW have definitely stimulated New Zealand interest in short wave work, and we have knowledge of a number who have followed Mr. Sellens into the short wave field. In another column we give a general review of the short wave position, which, though brief, covers the ground to the extent now available. Captain Eckersley, the engineering expert of the British ‘Broadcasting Corporation, summarises the activities of 55W, and the objectives aimed at, and, moreover, gives a series of graphs outlining the conditions of reception obtaining in connection with a test made before Christmas. These graphs indicate the hours during which effective yeception was secured. Those hours in themselves were not extensive, and so far as New Zealand is concerned are not the most suitable for popular reception, but they are sufficient to indicate that the problems are being steadily tackled, and that possibly with the provision of higher power on the short wave band it will be possible on occasions for special transmissions to hegffectively arranged and rebroadcast in this Dominion.