Our Mailbag

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 27, 15 January 1932, Page 6

Our Mailbag

Howling Valves Again. Now that we have a Radio Board to control broadcasting matters it is to be hoped they will take immediate steps to deal with the howling valve nuisance. In this district we are never free of this trouble,'day or night, and frequently an evening’s programme is completely spoilt. This annoyance has been going on for months past, and protests in the local papers and complaint to the postal authorities have been fruitless. The matter is serious enough to demand the attention of an expert from outside the district, and besides stop-

ping the trouble it may be the means of discovering a number of unregistered sets.-‘"Fed Up" (Gisborne). Announcers and Announcing. (CONGRATULATIONS to dxers on their Huropean verifications, The time is now ripe, it may happen next ‘winter-what about a gold medal for the first dxer to get a verification from London? Conditions -have improved somewhat during the last week,,and I have manag: ed to add 2SM, 4BH, 2GN, KOL. I have also picked up a station at R6 overpowering 2NC, but have got no call, but I am picking him to be the new Wellington station, 2ZR. Our YA announcers are getting worse. When will they wake up to the fact that there are hundreds of overseas listeners waiting to identify their

stations, yet they seldom give their location? It must be remembered that other countries do not pick up New Zealand stations at R7-8, and most listeners like to know where the material is coming from, and it would not keep them at their post very much longer if they gave station particulars when closing down at night. I am sure there are many overseas listeners who would appreciate this, The same applies to most of our B-class stations. I think dxers as well as assisting one another in New Zealand could keep their eye open and probably assist some of their overseas friends in many small ways. I know this is being done by the seeretary of the Round the World Club, but he needs all the support he can get

from the N.Z.D.X. Club.-

B.

W.

(Strat-

ford).