Auckland Notes

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 1, 20 July 1928, Page 3

Auckland Notes

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Listener

ANY Aucklanders were completely bewildered over the peculiarities of reveption last Sunday, and there were many quite unnecessary investigations of sets and testings of batteries. Wellington, which usually roars in, could be detected spasmodically, while the Australian stations were absolutely dead. It was only next morning ,when the news of the effect o£ the aurora was made public in the Press, that listeners realised how much fruitless investigation they had undertaken. The few who had observed the display in the southern sky were aware of the cause of poor reception. Fortunately such eonditions are unique. | GENERAL interest has been aroused over the forthcoming presentation of a four-act comedy at 1YA on Wednesday next. It is the first time that such an ambitious attempt has been made in New Zealand, and judging by the popularity of the short radio plays the experiment should prove most acceptable, Listeners do not realise that there is a great amount of work before such a presentation goes before the microphone, for, though the performers are not under the necessity of memorising their lines, there is much special technique to be mastered, and the incidentals that convey various effects -inust be carefully rehearsed.

TS See Wuar an asset to a station our Municipal Band is, Nothing finer ean be heard on any receiving set operating in these parts. Last Wednesday they brought back memories of tense war days in their popular rendition of Godfrey's "Reminiscences of the Nations." The same night brought a vocal "find" over the air. Miss Sarah Stagpoole was the soloist at the municipal concert, and her solos must have brought as spontaineous outbursts of applause in many a home as_ they brought in the Town Ilall. If her services ean be secured at the studio there will be few sets idle that night. — WoO other newcomers to the 1XA microphone were much appreciated last week, They were Mrs. Fred. Basham and Mr. A. Briggs. Yet a few dissatisfied ones keep on harping about monotony ! ° PuE Irish concert on the preceding evening was an outstanding suceess, and an easy first for items rendered, must be accorded to the station trio. Their playing of old Irish airs Was one of the most appreciated selections which the trio have put over, and. it was made the medium of many congratulations, {2 is quite safe to predict that.on the afternoon of the 27th there will be little interest in the daily routine on. the part of all who possess receiving sets, and there my be. unaccountable and pardonable | absences from toil. Given = fayournble conditions for reception, a rebroadcast of the ringside description of the fight is certain, What a rush there will be to the shops of dealers, and to homes adjacent to places of business, One enthusiastic employer has informed his staff that if the relay is feasible they may all come out to his house and listen-in. This is the spirit which popularises radio. A successful rebroadeast will create quite a radio boom, and should the fates be unkind, well, the Broadcasting Company cannot be blamed. We know that they are making every effort to astonish New Zealand, and one and all trust that they will do so. "WSAT kind of a set do I need to hear the account of the transTasman flight?’ This was the question put to the writer by a man who knows nothing of listening-in, but who has suddeuly come to realise all that he is missing in consequence. When it was explained that nothing more than a cheap erystal outfit would be necessary, and that other expenses would be only the aerial equipment and the license fee, off he went at once to a dealer, How many others there are who should do the same! It is worth something to have the satisfaction of listening to what will be recounted of a historic achievement,