ALL ROUND THE PACIFIC

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 42, 4 May 1928, Page 5

ALL ROUND THE PACIFIC

LISTENERS-IN HEAR NEW ZEALAND The closing in of the days in the Southern Hemisphere has naturally resulted in greatly improved reception of the New Zealand stations in Australia, for listeners-in over there are now enabled to tune in a YA in darkness before their’own stations come on the air. The last mail from Australia brought Jetters from all States except Western Australia. Tasmania was represented as well. Some very high praise was meted out to the New Zealand stations, especially 2YA, on the score of transmission as well as of programmes, "R.G.G.’" in Ararat, Victoria, said: "I must say that your programme is equal to any in Australia, and I and ny mother are looking forward to many an hour’s enjoyment from now on by tuning in to your 2YA." Letters have been received from Hono. lulu and yarious States of AmericaCalifornia principally, but as far east as Minnesota.

2QYA lias also been reported from as far afield in Canada as Alberta. Going further north, reports have come trom Alaska and the Yukon ‘erritory (Canada). But as one goes further north one ineets (but does not enjoy, in a radio sense) more daylight, for davlight is the bugbear of the radio fan. However, it is not to be supposed that the people in the Arctic would sacrifice their spell of daylight for ’the sake of radio. It, however, can well be imagined that radio helps greatly to make the winters in Alaska endurable. A correspondent at Fort Yukon, Alaska, writes: ‘‘We have considerable interference in our reception of your stations, the chief of which is static. We also have some trouble from telegraphy, mestlv from Japanese oats. Very seldom have we been alle to hear you for more than twenty to thirty minutes without any fades. "TTewever, we must say that we have enjoved your programmes yery much when we were lucky enough to hear you. We think it rather remarkable that we have heard you at all, We do not expect to hear you again until next fall, as our davs are‘getting too long. Within the next forty days we will have davlight for twenty-four hours a day. For six weeks in the middle of summer here the sun is never out of sight, and during the lieht period we do not get any radio. However, we will listen-In everv night, and if we hear anv of your stations again we will report them to you."’