Identifying Stations

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 9, 14 September 1928, Page 11

Identifying Stations

[Ny New Zealand one is not, as a rule, caused much difficulty in identifyin* the different stations received, but in Hurope endless difficulties must occur. At least fifteen different languages are on the air and although some of them do give announcements in English, the majority do not. However, the various stations have done much to simplify matters and many have adopted distinctive signals. Berne uses a gong, Bratislava bells, Geneva a whistle, Graz a metronome, while most of the German stations use a metronome and a gong. | Some stations also send a Morse letter repeated many times between items. Yet these signals cannot convey much to the uninitiated listener.