America’s Crowded Waveband

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 39, 10 April 1931, Page 6

America’s Crowded Waveband

Serious Interference THE Canadian Government has instituted negotiations in the hope of an international agreement in regard to broadcasting on the North American Continent and Cuba. : Complaints are frequently . being heard to the effect that certain Canadjan stations are subject to continual interference caused by other stations "sitting on" the channels used in Canada. One powerful station in Montreal transmits its programmes to the accompaniment of a steady whistle which has been traced to interference by a station in Havana. Toronto is affected still more severely by interference from a station in Mexico, and Winnipeg also suffers from the same Mexican source of trouble. The conference in Washington last year came to an agreement regarding the use of short waves, but no reference was made to broadcasting. The Canadian authorities now hope that a conference will take place for the purpose of specifically allocating channels. Should such procedure not be possible,, now that the root of the trouble has been discovered, it may be feasible to climinate it by some mutual arrangement.