Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 39, 12 April 1929, Page 5

Radio Round the World

So successful have been the results of the persistent and energetic campaign of the Pacific Radio Trade Association in reducing interference to radio reception in the San Francisco Bay region that other cities throughout the country are planning similar work. Nearly two thousand complaints have been investigated and, in a majority of cases, have been remedied during the past year. The work has been financed by the public service corporations whose equipment is sometimes responsible for the interference. Thus neither the radio dealers nor the public has been put to any expense for eliminating these troubles. The effect has been highly beneficial to the dealers, who are now selling sets where they could not be sold before, and to the listening public who can now enjoy radio without the unseemly noises due to interference. This will also redound to the benefit of the radio industry, which is not selfishly allowing the public to suffer after buying radio sets. MERICAN papers describe the strenuous efforts of the staff of station WJZ, New York city, to repair its aerial, torn down by a violent wind on the Presidential election day; the feat of putting up a 2500-pound aerial

between the 700-foot towers was occomplished in less than three hours by a small crew, and the station came into the chain, broadeasting returns, only a few minutes late. A few days later WHAF, New York, suffered temporary disability by the freezing of its cooling system in an unexpected cold snap, But seldom indeed does the American broadcast engineer allow little freaks of nature like this to make a programme late. SINCE the appointment of the Rev. C. CO. Martindale, 8.J., to represent the Roman Catholics on the British Broadcasting Corporation headquarters’ Religious Advisory Committee, there has been a marked revival of interest in radio possibilities among Catholics. Father Martindale is taking the London studio services occasionally. Notable Catholics in the B.B.C. include Mr. Cecil Graves, Lord Grey’s nephew. Father Martindale, it will be remem- _ bered, visited New Zealand going to and returning from the Bucharistic Conference in Sydney. He was in the motor-car with Bishop Cleary -when 2 serious collision occurred on the road between Rotorua and Auckland and Bishop Cleary was severely injured.