Hawke's Bay Notes

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 4, 10 August 1928, Page 25

Hawke's Bay Notes

Hawke’s Bay? Every day tinds fans hopeful that to-night will find reception conditions ‘better than last night-and they go on hoping. A COUPLE of decent nights a week is about the ave-age now, and unless things improve many sets will be on the market. | the matter with radio’ in "3 [vs been about the worst winter on record for radio. It is still a toss-up whether 1YA or 3YA_ is our best station, the former being favoured most, on account of 2GB being so close. to 3YA. . YA Wellington is a difficult station as far as the Bay is concerned. -Mr. Bellingham could not have struck a worse night for his frequency test up this way. Static was in full swing, but that was not nearly as bad as the swinging and fading, and sometimes the frequency notes and Mr. Bellingham’s voice faded right out. All the same the talk and the test was quite interesting, and would be worth ‘repeating in the hope of striking a better night. Wwas the howling valve nuisance thought of during the test? As goon as the frequencies got. beyond reception up this way, the "whistling Willies" were on the job, and some listeners must have got these tangled up with the test transmissions. HE 2YA broadcast of the Carroll---Casey boxing contest was greatly appreciated in these quarters, even z)

though it was a bad night for receplion. Mr. Aldridge did the descriptive work quite well, except that he gave too little of it and too much Heeney reprint. But that’s a minor detail. The boxing broadcasts from Dunedin are also popular, but 4YA does not come through with the power of old, and even on a five-tube set it is often difficult to pick up well. When is the: station going on the higher power promised some time back (THE Aussies are all coming through well, but appear to fall off in the late evening. uu lieeney-Tunney boxing contest and the coming Tasman flight has resulted in many loval inquiries for radio sets. HE Hawke's Bay Radio Suciety’s appeal for funds for radio equipment for the Hastings Hospital has come to a temporary standstill at £92. A couple of concerts are to be given soon and should put the total up with a bump. HE local interference committee has been on the job and located several sources of interference in the way ‘of motors. 2ZM, Gisborne,.and 242, Palmerston North, are being picked up here with fair speaker volume, (THE decision of the Racing Confer- ence not to allow future broadeasts of race meetings has raised a howl in these quarters. The matter will be discussed at the Radio Society’s meeting next week.