Do you Overload your Set?

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 31, 15 February 1929, Page 6

Do you Overload your Set?

Wellington Listeners to Have Interesting Test) Now that the New Plymouth transmitter is about ready. the Broudcasting Company proposes to install it at 2YA, for a short period until all the studio preparations at New Plymouth are completed. An application. for permission to do-so has been made to the Post and Telegraph: Department und has been granted. The motive underlying this. action by the Broadcasting Company is to carry out an experiment for the benefit of the peopie of Wellington. The Broadcasting Company proposes to test dual transmissions on high and low power-on 5000 watts. and on 50. watts. © These simultaneous duul transmissions of the same programme will enable the owners of valve sets to prove whether their sets suffer from overloading whe1i tuned in to 2YA. [" will be remembered that complaints have been made by Wellington listeners concerning their reception of 2YA, when more distant listeners report perfect reception. The occasion is therefore being availed of by. the Broadcasting Company to arrange for transmissions on the high and on the low power so that listeners will be able to demonstrate to their own satisfaction whether they are overloading their sets when listening to. the big station. Overloading is a very Common occurrence. but: generally the bad recelf tion is then attributed to some other reason. In the event of poor receytion, due to overloading the set, the remedy is simple. Without doubt. the dual transmission will prove to many listeners.that they are overloading their sets.