"CAPPING" BROADCAST

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 1, 20 July 1928, Page 4

"CAPPING" BROADCAST

4YA USES PORTABLE TRANSMITTER BROADCAST of the students’ capping celebrations in Dunedin on Tuesday, July 10, was well carried out by 4YA, and proved thoroughly enjoyable. The whole carnival was well "covered," and listeners-in who have neyer seen how Dunedin students honour the important occasion were able to form a good appreciation of all that Was going on. The street scenes were described by the announcer, who visited various parts of the city in a motor-ear equipped with Mr. J. D. McEwen’s shortwaye transmitting set. This transmission was picked up on Mr. F, Barnett’s short-wave receiver at the Kaikorai Band Room, relayed to 4¥A and then broadcast. The transmitter- in the motor-car was operated on a wavelength of 80 metres, so that, owing to

the harmonics, it could not be received at the station. The crowd which surrounded the motor-car made transmission difficult, but compensation lay in the fact that the street noises added colour and atmosphere to the broadcast. Whenever the crowd was silent the broadcast and re-broadecast were exceptionally clear. At one place where the car stopped there was some electrical interference which prevented any transmission. As well as the street performances, the doings in the Octagon ‘Theatre were described, the two’ broadcasts al‘ternating. Big Brother Bill was in charge of the microphone and he gave a breezy account of all that was happening, while the students’ speeches, picked up from the public address loud-speakers, were relayed and broadeast.