Armistice Day Celebrations in London

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 12, 16 November 1928, Page 7

Armistice Day Celebrations in London

TTEMPT was made to re-broadcast the Armistice Day celebrations in London by 2YA and other New Zealand stations. In the case of 2YA a certain measure of success was attained by the effort made on Sunday at 10.80 p.m. This was the service at the Cenotaph. The service in Trafalgar ' Square, which was timed for 2 a.m. on Monday morning, was also re-broadeast with a certain degree of success, although it was not what might be termed a brilliant success. Definite failure has to be recorded in regard to the service at St. Martin’s-in-the-Feld, taking. place at 7.30 a.m. New Zealand summer time. All that 2PYA could pick up this time was the announcement asking listeners to stand by. At. 8.30 a.m. for the Albert Hall service nothing could be heard beyond the carrier wave of 55W, Although the result in Wellington was not as successful as was desired, still the rebroadcast did give crystal users the opportunity of hearing voices from the other side of the world. In this Wellington would seem to have been more successful than Sydney, as an announcement from 2FC was heard to the effect that they had been unable to pick up any of the re-broadcast.

A notable feature of the 5SW trans mission was that the studio announcements from Chelmsford were heard 100 per cent. clear, but not the transmissions from Whitehall and Trafalgar Square. This would indicate that the (disability did not lie so much with 5SW itself as with the imperfection of the line between the out-door funetions and 5SW. 2VA re-broadcast 2YA on the occar sion of the Sunday night service, but picked up and re-broadcast the 2 2.1. service direct.