Broadcasting News

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 42, 2 May 1930, Page 2

Broadcasting News

N. Bnglish writer prescribes as relief. from interference between neighbouring: listeners the use of a small valve fixed condenser in series with the earth wire. On Wednesday evenings when the whole pack are howling all over the dial nothing less than.a bombardment of the city with high-explosive shells would give relief, Wellington listeners seem to vie with each other on Wednesday evenings to make night hideous. THE Soviet authorities are determined to be heard. They are erecting a 75,000-watt broadcast station in the vicinity of Moscow which is calculated to give govd loudspeaker volume throughout Burope. The station is expected to commence operations within a few weeks, There is a difference in time of about nine hours between Moscow and New Zealand. Seeing that a Paris station, on the ordinary broadcast wavelength, was heard a few years ago in New Zealand, it is quite possible that the Moscow thunderer will be picked up by some New Zealander. A POINT many listeners overlook is the quality of their loudspeakérs, Only lately an acquaintance of the writer substituted a first-class moving _ coil loudspeaker for his old-fashioned speaker, and although his set is utter- ly out of date it is now giving service in quality of reproduction equal to any modern outfit, o.--~ ae