"Eating Crow"

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

"Eating Crow"

2YA Heard in Texas

AWAY down in Texas (U.S,A.) there is a progressive little "city" of about 5000 population called Dalhart, A resident of this is Mr. A. C. Johnson, Box 344. On March 29 last Mir. Johnson was made a proud’ and: happy man by receiving direct 2YA, His pride, however, was tempered by the fact that his claim to have heard New Zealand qualified him, in the opinion of his friends to whom recounted the incident, for membership in the "Ananhias. Club." Accordingly he wrote the. New Zealand Broadcasting Company asking for confirmation of the programme that he heard. On May 7 last the company wrote Mr. Johnson certifying ‘to the items that he heard haying been transmitted from 2YA. Now, in the words of Mr. Johnson, he is making all his friends "¢at crow" for having doubted his earlier claim. In a letter just received by the company, Mr. Johnson acknowledges receipt of the "Radio. Record" issue of May 38, and states that he has read it from cover to cover with deep interest. "I am glad to note," he says, "that radio’ broadcasting in New Zealand is developing on a broad, wellconceived plan, and I am sure you will -never have the tribulations we listeners have to endure over here in the States because of the excessive number of stations." Mr. Johnson is also a short-wave enthusiast, and in writing forwards a copy of a letter which he sent on June 14 to Station 2M, Sydney, reporting reception of that station taking a telephonic test with Java and Suva. My Johnson sets out in detail the conversation between the different stae. tions, and definitely establishes the fact that he did hear 2MB on the evening in question. Mr. Johnson mentions that he has also heard.RIM, of Khaborovak, Siberia, and 5SW, Chelmsford, but 2ME was the first Australian station he had heard.