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Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 22, 14 December 1928, Page 25

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Will correspondents please practice brevity, as heavy demands are now made on space. All letters must be signed and address given as proot of genuineness: nums de plume for publication are permitted. Address correspondence Editor, "Radio Record,’ P.O. Box 1032, Wellington.

2k B, 2 Northland : The music you heard shortly before 8 p.m. no doubt was 2YA testing prior to opening. The other music was probably radiation as explained by "Switch" some few wekes ago. An Uncommon American. HILST listening in on my_ sixvalve set last Wedesday evening at about 7.80 I pieked up an Ameri‘an station just 2 degree or two above 2BL. I could not detect his call sign (which was a four-letter one with, | think, 2 W and a KS in it). but he said something about transmitting from Lucyiana., U.S.A. Gould any listener who has heard this station tell me who he is? [This may have been WW. New Orleans, Louisiunn, broadcasting on a wavelength of 352 metres.-Iid. |

Seven Days a Week. HOPE you will spare me a few lines in your "Record" to make one or two suggestions. Would it be possible for 2YA to give a short gramophone recital during the news session, when there is no lecturette? sometimes there is nearly half an hour between the end of the session and the beginning of the concert. J am sure it would not be much trouble to play a few selected items, I think that radio broadcasting in New Zealand has passed its infancy, and that the four chief stations could be on the air for seven days a week as in Australia. If this seheme were adopted it would give owners of valve sets an opportunity of hearing other stations with‘out the howling of small sets trying to pick up stations beyond their reach.

Before closing, I wish to congratulate 2YA on the manner in which they keep us posted with the latest Aus«

tralian cricket scores.

C.J.

S.

Hutc)o

: Unsigned Letter. We haye received an unsigned typewritten letter bearing the address "Richmond Avenue, Nelson," under date November 26, 1928, asking us to forward the "Radio Record" for one year. The letter states that a postal order for 12s. 6d. is enclosed, but this was not attached on receipt by us. As the letter is unsigned, we are unable to communicate with the writer. We would be glad to hear from anys one who can locate the sender. A Correction. & your issue of November 23, "North lander." of Whangarei, reports having received 2XAIF on 280 metres, und he asks if this would be a hars monic. Your reply was in the affirma-tive--but is it not more probable that "Northlander" picked up a re-broadcast by 2ZF on 285 metres? This station has rebroadcast parts of the two-wuy conversation between 2NAF and 2M, aud it seems more probable that this was picked up. rather than a_ har monic of a station as far distant as U.S.A., especially as it was of loudspeaker strength. rusting you will

correct the statement.-

K. L.

Collinson

(Palmerston North)

Yes, in the circumstances, your suggestion seems correct.--lid.]