EDITORIAL NOTES.

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 49, 22 June 1928, Page 4

EDITORIAL NOTES.

THE Suggestion has been made hy some short-wave enthusiasts that 3 would Le good publicity for New Zealand for the Broadcastsing Company to establish a short-wave station for the benefit of overseas listeners. It is argued that such a move would have the effect of winning for the country a form ef publicity that would be highly desirable and beneficial. That some valuc would attach to such a station and such a line of effort may be conceded, even though it be doubted that the benefit to he gained is as great as is represented by the enthusiasts concerned. But when it comes to the question as to whether the moneys sulseribed in the Dominion for the maintenance of programmes for New Zealand listeners on the broadcast Land should be diverted for such a purpose, there can, of course, be only one answer. It is no part of the function of the Company ut this stage even to contemplate such a venture under its present contract. Such benefit as is obtainable from New Zealand publicity in the nearby Pacific is secured on the broadcast band by the high power of 2YA, which, there is abundant evidence to show, is effectively heard throughout New South Wales, Victoria and parts of (Queensland, as well as in the Pacific Islands. Short-wave developments are certainly full of possibilities, and New Zealand is anxious to receive all the benefit possible from the growing efficiency of this form of world-communication. It may seem a parsimonious policy to suggest receiving all and giving nothing, but, apart from our goodwill in the matter, what have we to give the world or to what message of our doings would the world deign to listen? The efficiency of short-wave iransmission and reception is steadily improving, and it is to be hoped that there will be occasions in the near future when the successful re-broadcast of overseas shortwave transmissions may he repeated such as that attendant on the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific flight. An account which we give in this issue of the successful reception of the proceedings of the Republican Convention which nominated Mr. Hoover for the presidency, suggests that there will be occasional opportunities when ordinary listeners in this country may be given the thrill of hearing re-broadcasts of proceedings overseas. If the first of such future successful re-broadcasts should chance to be the description of the Heeney-Tunney fight all our sporting listeners will be delighted. . | quae