An Ingenious Scheme

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 23, 19 December 1930, Page 6

An Ingenious Scheme

For Conveying Messages YOUNG student working in London has, states an exchange, hit upon a novel method of informing his parents in Wessex that he was alive and well. On the day when a regular weekly outside broadcast was in progress, he took up his position as close as possible to the microphone and, during -the silence which preceded the music, coughed luodly and with peculiar emphasis. This signal. reassures an anxious couple in the country who might, otherwise, be imagining that their boy had been shanghaied or led astray!