Radio Trade

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 41, 24 April 1931, Page 5

Radio Trade

Set Design Stabilised $ vadio is providing the cheapest entertainment known to the world its trade is almost as brisk as ever, according to Mr. B. T. Fisk, at the annual conference of A.W.A. Radiola dealers in Sydney on March 11, . Mr. Fisk remarked on the development of radio manufacture in Australia, and’mentioned that only the previous Saturday Amalgamated Wireless had been in direct communication from Sydney with the new Burns, Philp liner Macdhui in Scotland. The Macdhui was making her trial trips on the Clyde and the distinguished gathering on board were surprised and delighted to receive direct messages from Australia. The equipment used at both ends was de-

signed and manufactured at A.W.A.’s own works in Australia. The recently opened telephone seryice between New Zealand and Australia employed Australian-made instruments at each end, and a few days ago a high-speed direct telegraph service between Sydney and Papua was inaugurated. Referring to the present conference, Mr. Fisk pointed out that one of the most important questions for consideration was the conditions of markets, as the public to-day was more conscious of values and prices. The sets of to-day had reached a fine state of stabilised design and would not be fundamentally altered for a long time to come. "Some people," he said, "are anxiously looking forward to television sets being placed on the market within a year, but ‘so far as the present lines of de velopment were concerned, it will be many years before public television | would be available in the same way as public broadcasting."