Good Reception Overseas

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 34, 8 March 1929, Page 31

Good Reception Overseas

Canada and U.S.A. Hear New Zealand . THe last American mail brought a large budget of letters reporting overseas reception of the New Zealand station. During January, 2YA was heard well on the Pacific coast of Canada and the States. Reports have come from as far inland as Oregon, Indiana, Texas, and Illinois. Reception on the night of the Burns anniversary seems to have been very good in California and Oregon. [HH Texas correspondent, Mr. A. EK. Mallard, of Dallas, wrote: "On the evening of January 31, at 4.22 Central Standard time, I received your. station. A band furnished good music, in fact, it sounded better to me than any other band, or orchestra, that I have ever heard, possibly because it came from a foreign country. At the end of the last number, the announcer said, in clear English: "This is 2YA, Wellington, New Zealand." At this I nearly fell out of my chair. I woke up all the folks, but when I came back to the radio at about 4.30, you were gone."