Speed Record Broadcasts

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 27, 15 January 1932, Page 5

Speed Record Broadcasts

' Rebroadcasting % _ Descriptions HE first big "stunt" to fall to the Broadcasting Board has been "Wizard" Smith’s record-breaking race on Ninety Mile Beach. This under-taking-we are referring to the broadcasting part of it, the. attempt on the world’s speed record speaks for itselfhas been beset with difficulties. Ninety Mile Beach is not a populous localityexcept for toheroas-and telephone communication does not reach beyond Kaitaia, so, to bridge the intervening distance a portable transmitting. zet had to be installed near the beach, with a receiving set at Kaitaia, whence the telephonic relay was carried to Auckland and Wellington. The technical portion of the undertaking was carried out by the engineers of the P. and T. Department, which inStalled and operated the transmitting equipment and also arranged the necessary relay lines. The uncertainty as to the date and time of the record-breaking attempt made things difficult for the Broadcasting Board, but ptoved fortunate for listeners, as the Board «wrranged for broadcast each evening at 9 o’clock, when the happenings of the day were related and some interesting talks were given. The arranging for these preliminary talks-which were broadcast by 1YA, 2¥A, 3YA and 4YA-is a good augury for the future, indicating that the Board can be expected to make the most of an opportunity. On Sunday evening the broadcast was akso carried out by 4ZP, Invercargill, that, already early in its career, the ird has set a record by relaying from e extreme north to the extreme south of New Zealand. In addition to the broadcasts by the

YA stations, all B stations who applied for permission to connect up with the Board’s relay were permitted to do so, and broadcasts were carried out by 1ZR (Lewis Hady), 2ZW, Wellington (Nimmo), and the Western Dlectric short-wave station, 2ZX, Wellington. In addition to being used for broadcasting speech, the portable transmitter jnstalled at Ninety Mile Beach has also been used for radio telegraphic urposes, Its call sign is.ZLH,