Under the Black Flag

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 48, 13 June 1930, Page 25

Under the Black Flag

HEN a Post Office detector vanwhich can spy out a wireless set and track it down to the very room in the very house in the very street-re-cently visited a city in’ the north of England, there was an immediate rush to the local post-offices, and record numbers of licenses, to the extent of 600 per day, were hurriedly taken out. There are no doubt many "wireless. pirates" still at large; the development of the easily concealable. portable :set has probably started an increased number of people listening under the skull and crossbones. To bring them all to book would be a tremendous task. Fhe: evasion of an annual payment of thirty shillings does not seem a particularly ereditable crime when the cheapness of a radio license is compared with the immense cost of broadcasting and the profusion of programmes provided,