Topical Notes

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 25, 2 January 1931, Page 2

Topical Notes

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Switch

J5»GINNERS usually have little regard for the efticiency of their "earth," so long as they have a satisfactory aerial. The former is as important as the latter. "Switch" found it necessary recently to explain the position to a Wellington listener: who had lately purchased a rather elaborate all-electric receiving set, which, obviously, was not "pulling its weight." His earth wire was fastened to a piece of galvanised pipe driven into ver#a@ry clay. The pipe was moved a fw feet to a garden bed with deep bl soil, and after a couple of buckets of*water had been poured around the pipe reception volume was nearly double: "TEN O’CLOCK" (Pahiatua) writes to "Switch" expressing appreciation of the fine selection of gramophone items put on the air by 2YA, Wellington. He says: "I am omnivorous in my taste for music, and I like the pack well shuffled. Classical music, in homeopathic doses, is always acceptable to many folk, and so long as jazz.is tuneful I can find pleasure in listening to it. The ‘electrically; recorded gramophone items have changed the publie attitude toward the broadcasting of records, and, like many, others, I prefer the records to the living performers."