HEARD IN CANADA

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 42, 4 May 1928, Page 4

HEARD IN CANADA

NEW ZEALAND STATIONS INTERESTING LETTER. "There is to hand from Canada an interesting letter from Mr. Marvin H. Thoreau, Strand Theatre, Vancouver B.C., which is worth reproducing. The appreciation of Mr. Sellen’s notes is very satisfactory. We may say that we have also drawn the attention of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s short wave department to the value of Mr. Sellen’s weekly report. Just a line to let you know how I appreciate receiving your interesting little paper. I have been receiving your paper for some months now, and certainly appreciate the generosity of Mr. J. M. Bingham in sending it to me. I met Mr. Bingham during his recent visit to this continent and was greatly impressed with his knowledge of radio transmission. Our Western Canadian stations certainly need a man with his ability. I hear 1YA and 2YA quite regu--larly and they fertainly are superior to the Australian stations in quality of transmission. I was particularly impressed with the way the brass bands are handled as these are. notably hard to broadcast without. blasting effects. I believe that if the New Zealand. Broadcasting Company could see their way clear to install a high power short wave transmitter it would be a benefit to your country. The short wave notes (by Mr. Sellens), which you publish in your paper, are the first articles to be read by me, and these are carefully filed for future reference. Mr. Sellens’s notes have helped me identity | several foreign broadcasters, I note that Mr. Sellens receives 5SW better than 2XAD, in the mornthis I think must be due to 5SWY ltravelling through darkness, aud '2XAD through daylight. 5S5SW can be tuned in here about noon and steadily gets stronger until they si¢n | off at 4 p.m. (midnight in London), darkness I believe is re- : sponsible 2XAD 2XAF, RFM, and ‘KDKA on both 27 and 63 metres, are our best short wave stations.