YANKS HEAR ANTIPODES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 40, 20 April 1928, Page 16

YANKS HEAR ANTIPODES

MORE FAVOURED THAN WE. A broadcast listener writes to the Sydney "Wireless Weekly" :-‘"I'm not a doubting ‘Thomas’ and I realise that most of us radio fans cannot help exaggerating to a certain ex’ent, but I wonder if any of your readers can explain why so many American fans are able to receive Australian stations on the broadcast bands, whilst we cannot receive their stations, even on sets manufactured in that country? Rather curious, isn’t it? Even more so since America would suffer more from interference than this country, owing to the great number of stations in America, and also to the towering masses of ironwork, the number of electrical instal\lations, and one thing and another. The explanation is simple. When it is midnight in California it is only 6 o'clock in the evening in Queensland, N.S.W., Victoria and Tasmania, and as few stations continue broadcasting after midnight in America the Australians have very little chance of obtaining darkness for reception of the Yanks, The American fan, however, by sitting up till the early hours of the morning, can obtain darkness for reception of the Australian and New Zecaland stations, which are then in full swing.