Reception Tricks

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 4, 9 August 1929, Page 7

Reception Tricks

Locality Peculiarities

SOME interesting comments concerning vagaries of reception are made by a correspondent in North Auckland :- "T am inclined to think much could be learned about reception and its many tricks by a systematic locality survey. in support of this theory I refer you to the report re Kaitaia listener who cannot now pick up 2YB though he could hear the transmission well when the plant was at 2YA, also to the fact of my inability to log in any stations other than New Zealand and Australian, although my set is admittedly capible of such. My nearest neighbour can get U.S.A. on a home-constructed set, made up out of an out-of-date set bought at bargain price, and looking like a barbed wire entanglement using 3. valves. Again, I have entertained prospective listeners who have, without exception, admitted that my set is the bést that they .have listened to. My conclusion is that probably some minor alterations to a set would make a won(erful difference in counteracting local peculiarities." .