Miss 1930 Calling!

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 15, 24 October 1930, Page 5

Miss 1930 Calling!

Discussing Bargain Sales HE fair sex is not usually credited with either knowing or caring much amout the technical side of radio, and so it is rather a surprise to learn that in America there are well over forty feminine amateur transmitters. In Europe and other parts of the world, however, there are very few. England, apparently, boasts only two, France one, Switzerland one, and Australia one, It would be interesting to know what these feminine enthusiasts talk about over the air. Do they, like their brother transmitters, discuss modulation and milliamps, or do they enthuse over the hats they’ve bought at bargain sales? Or is their conversation a mixture of the two-like this: "Hull, Three Pip Emma Toe, this is Nine Double Ack Zebra answering! Yes, my dear, your modulation is just too perfect. I understand that some of my last remarks were jammed out by Q.R.M. No, I said five-and-eleven-three a yard, not nine-and-eleven-three a yard. And, my dear, I picked up the cutest little hat to match.....’ 1)