Reception in Waikato

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 27, 15 January 1932, Page 23

Reception in Waikato

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ALTHOUGH subject. to fading, 2YA and SYA are the two New. Zealand stations best received in the Waikato district. Fading is not generally experienced with 1YA, but in places about 100 miles away from the station where the ground and sky waves neutralise a large amount of distortion often mars reception.. The high yoltage power lines around Matangi, Te Awamutu and other places impair the quality of the reception. "he relays last year of 1YA’s Interrational programme -on Tuesday eveninggPyy the Hamilton B station 1ZH were greatly appreciated, many listeners in the Waikato preferring the local: relay to the direct transmission from, Auckland. 1ZH, which is conducted by Anchor’s Radio House, Victoria Street, Hamilton, and operates with a power of 50 watts on a frequency near that of 4YA, Dunedin, has done much to foster radio in the Waikato since the station’s inception about eighteen months ago. The station’s programmes consist mainly of recorded items, temporary permission to carry on with these having been received from the headquarters in Sydney of the gramophone companies imposing the ban on the broadcasting of records. The station has relay lines connected with 1YA, Auckland, and the Winter Show Concert Hall in Hamilton. Since the abandonment this year of the International programines, 1Z1 has not relayed 1YA’s Tuesday broadeasts. The Hamilton station has not received advice from the Broadcasting Board as to whether weekly relays are to be continued. The Board, by subsidising 1ZH, and by stepping up its power to 100 watts, could cater for the many listenérs outside the range of 1YA and 2YB, New Plymouth.