RADIO TIME

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 45, 25 May 1928, Page 5

RADIO TIME

VALUE TO OUT-BACK DWELLERS. THE practice of giving. out the correct time at intervals from the stations is one that serves a very useful purpose and is generally appreciated, especially by dwellers out-back. A letter which serves to emphasise this has been received by 2¥A. An extract from a very appreciative letter says: "111 explain why the correct time is important here. ‘This place is a railway construction camp (P.W.D.), employing about 300 men, and one of my jobs is to ring the starting work bell at 7.30 a.m. I might tell you that our bell is known locally as the ‘wireless time’ on account of my getting the correct time every night over the air. I am sorry to say Monday morning’s time will be purely guesswork. When you said ‘Good-night,’ after giving the ‘Thought,’ my watch was 9.28 p.m., and my clock was 9.87 p.m., so I will have to divide the difference in the morning. "T will listen very anxiously next Sunday for the time, and if you will listen carefully you will hear me say, ‘Thank you,’ when you announce it. While I have a little space left, let me congratulate 2YA on its new orchestra. It is a tip-top combination."