Not Satisfactory

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 26, 9 January 1931, Page 4

Not Satisfactory

Australian Government Control THE policy of the Government in taking over the technical work of broadcasting (as has been proposed in New Zealand) receives a nasty jolt in the following letter by "Off the Air," Ballarat, published in the Melbourne "Listener-In"’ :- "Dear Sir,-Usually at the commencement of the daily session of ‘A’ class broadcasting sessions we hear the oftrepeated cry of ‘3LO or 3AR, the Australian Broadcasting. Company supplying the National Broadcasting Service.’ Now let us examine the wonderful service we are getting. From station $LO we get ‘mushy reception’ most of the

time, and from 8AR, sometim je thing at all. Are listeners to’ get service for their £1/4/- per annum, ?r have they to be contented with ‘any old thing at any old time’? Station 3AIt has been ‘off the air’ some five or six times recently, and the latest break was for over 12 hours, and, like Johnny Walker, was still going. strong while this was being written. Is it ‘a fact that competent engineers and experts have been displaced, and men from the Postmaster-General’s Department, with practically no wireless experience, put into their positions? Perhaps the Director of Wireless can give listeners some reason for the cause of these frequent breakdowns." Yr a ss