A Progressive Enterprise

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 16, 2 November 1928, Page 4

A Progressive Enterprise

Meritorious Work by alata Radip Club

A BROADCASTING station which is doing excellent work to serve its district is 2ZF, Palmerston North. The Plant. GITUATED in the heart of one of New Zealand’s most progressive towns, With its masts towering forty feet above the roof of one of the large business establishments of that town, and 100 feet from the pavement, 2ZF is an imposing sight. With an energetic and able president, Mr. W. A. Waters, the Manawatu Radio Club, with a membership of 230, has showed remarkable progress, and now their transmissions are a credit to them, and bring happiness into many local homes that would otherwise be radioless. Within the last twelve months the studio has been refurnished and draped, and the station reorganised. Since then the membership has increased from 50 to its present number. New members are enrolling daily. The transmitter consists of a 5-watt speech amplifier. two 50-watt modulators, and one 50-watt oscillator. The

power is supplied from a motor generator supply, 1000 volts, through a suitable switehboard, with automatic cutouts to protect the valves, etc. The transmitter is built on a wooden frame, and enclosed in plate-glass The wavelength is 285 meters. : Programme Organisation. A DEFINITE. programme organisation serves listeners with a regular entertainment. A children’s service, followed by a musical recital, is the usual order, though exceptions are made when important events are available for broadcasting. RELAYS have now been attempted with considerable success. ‘The — first was to put 2ME on the air when a two-way communication was in progress with 2XAF. These short wave stations were picked up by the president,-and relayed to the studio, but as Mr. Waters has only one short wave set only one side of the conversation would be relayed at one time. The relay was excellently handled, and refiects great credit. on those responsible.