Short-wave Notes

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 35, 11 March 1932, Page 24

Short-wave Notes

The 24-hour Service. Listeners are asking how the B.B.C. proposes to carry out its 2t-hour programme service from the new MWmpire stations at Daventry. The solution of tue problem will probably be found in the extensive use of the Blattnerphone recording apparatus, which will enable speeches of the day to be bottled for transmission at whatever hour is most suitable for the Empire. Similarly, outstanding musical concerts may be recorded, either by Blatterphone or some other system, and radiated later. Many foreign stations are experimenting in this direction. ‘The method has proved very useful on a number of occasions. As, for instance, Berlin advertises a weekly relay from New York, and on some nights experienced great difficulty in "delivering the goods." Having found that afternoon transmissions were most favourably captured, the hour was changed, and a talk thus picked up on the short waves was retransmitted later in the course of the programme at the schedule hour.

Anniversary of WGY. ‘The tenth anniversary of the opening of WGY, Schenectady, New’ York, was celebrated on Saturday (February 20), when a short programme was broadcast by VK2MB, Sydney, picked up by W2XAF and rebroadcast by them as well us the parent station, WGY. The special broadcast was scheduled to commence at 12,80 a.m., Sunday (February 21), but Sydney was not: being received well enough in New York, so it was delayed till nearly 1 a.m.; the relay concluded at 1 am. VK2MB, on 28.5 metres, was not up to their usual standard here. At .one period during the test, 2XAR’ was coming in far better than the Sydney station.