Auckland Notes

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 49, 29 June 1928, Page 5

Auckland Notes

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Listener.

DURING recent evenings the weather conditions have been unkind to those who have tried beyond local stations for reception. Cyclonic -conditions have brought an infliction of static in their frain, and fading, too, has been peculiarly prevalent. On Sunday last both Wellington and- Australian reception fluctuated badly in volume, an annoyance for which no one could blame the transmission. LocaL dealers. report that the radio trade has been decidedly on the up-grade for some time, and they anticipate that when the next official figures regarding licenses are published Auckland will have made up most if not all of the leeway shown in previous returns, GCENE: A room in a private hospital. The patient lies abed, but within reach of his hand are the dials of a portable receiver, He was the fortunate posesssor of a machine of this type, and as soon as the doctor granted permission, had it transferred from his home to his bedside, where it plays its part in whiling away the long hours of convalescence. It is needless to remark that there are numerous requests from other rooms in the hospital for a.loan of the portable. HW .news that the Tasman flight will shortly be attempted by the Southern Cross has given a filip to the learning of Morse. Those who are fortunate enough to be proficient in the telegraphist’s art are already being besieged by friends who wish to come along on the fateful evening and ascertain at first hand the progress of the plane. B* the island boat this week there came to Auckland a radio set in which a transformer had broken down. Accompanying the set was a letter from a lonely South Seas trader who implored that the set be repaired immediately and returned by the same boat, because, since the accident happened, he had only come to realise how Lonely life could’ bé away from civilisation when one was deprived of the one means of keeping in regular touch with the news and the entertainment of the outside world. OYA ranks as & prime favourite with Aucklanders on a Sunday evening. There is something about the Wellington programmes that follow the church services which makes one tune in 2YA. On Sunday last the varied band items, the solos and the selections rendered by the Maoris, provided a most acceptable change from our local radio fare. (PoE annunl meeting -2 the Listeners’ Teagu: eventuates on Monday evening-our local silent night. Through the courtesy of the Radio Broadcasting Company the meeting is receiving good publicity over the air,

N .Wednesday last the Auckland Town .Hall was engaged for a politieal- meeting, and in consequence the regular organ recital relay had to be abandoned. The staff at 1YA rose to the occasicn, however, and quite a good programme was- broadeast from the studio, Among the contributors were those two favourites Miss Phyllis Hazell and Mr. Frank Sutherland. HE broadcasting of accounts of football matches is not altogether a pleasant job. On Saturday last at Jaden Park the wind, blowing with cyelonie force, was swt-ping sheets of rain right up into the members’ stand, where Mr. W. J. Meredith at the microphone battled with the elements, as did the players on a sodden field. As he described the incidents of a muddy game he had to wave away raucousvoiced newspaper boys who seem to de‘light in the privilege of getting on the ‘gir at sports gatherings. There were few spectators at the park on the day, Dut it is safe +» say that tue absentees were either at their own or their neighbours’ receiving sets.