Topical Notes

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 26, 9 January 1931, Page 0

Topical Notes

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HE New Plymouth station, 2YB, has peen available at increased volume in Wellington of late, and fading has not been so noticeable. The tone is first-rate, and there is an unusual clarity in. both musie and speech.. Parasitic, or, more aptly, intrusive electrical noises, which infest Wellington, have been increasing around the shorter broadeast wavelengths during. the past month, and 2YB, New Plymouth, has this additional drawback to overcome. AFTER years of research, American radio engineers have evolved a transmitter which is probably without parallel in the radio world. It is to be used by station W2XAF, one of the group of short-wave stations of WGY, for communication with the rest of the world. A single transmitter has been built so that three musical programmes can be simultaneously broadcast without interference. Six independent and non-interfering voice channels are available. In other words, should occasion demand, addresses by six different people could be transmitted by the same equipment, on six different frequencies.