A Quaint Letter
HBP laughing of the kookaburra, with which the weekly world-wide broadcasts from short-wave station 2ME, Sydney, are commenced and finished, has evidently greatly interested a Japanese radio experimenter at Yokohami. Masji Hirai, Esq., as this enthusiast signs himself in a letter to the station,’ refers to the song of the kookaburra as the "ludiclous quacks of waterfauls." He explains that he heard the station in September, but on October 4 "that old quack of odd water-fauls which 1 have heard just a month ago came in. Yes, sir, the station I have tuned was your station, VK2MB, operating on 81.28 metres. I could hardly believe that the programmes were being carried from the land of Kangaroo, because they were so stable, and especially volume level was so high for the distance." Mr. Masji Hirai forwarded details of the programme which he heard, referring always to the laugh of the kookaburra as "quacks!" f
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Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 23, 18 December 1931, Page 6
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156A Quaint Letter Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 23, 18 December 1931, Page 6
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