In Phase and Out

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 2, 22 July 1932, Page 4

In Phase and Out

By

Quadrant

ANY people have asked me "Was that Mr. Heigh Ho from 2YA last week?’ to which I can only say I believe it was. x * re LITERALLY dozens have commented on my paragraph regarding Patricia’s recipe requiring the juice of an onion. invariably they have asked. "Well, how do you get the juice out of the onion?’ and there have been diverse suggestions from ~-lemonsqueezers to presses of all descriptions. One nasty remark came in an envelope addressed "Mrs. Quadrant," and read: "If I had anything to do with that man I would domesticate him." ‘Allow me-‘"Let not ambition mock their humble toil" oo. * % * {t appears that particular recipe cane from the Home Science Department of Otago University. Someone I know is writing these people asking them to suggest a scientific yet tearless method of obtaining one tablesponful of juice. 1 * x "[CHABOD" writes: "Your remarks last week concerning 1YA’s carrier were mild. I had always likened it to a zepp. in a gale of wind or a forest tire, but seeing that the aoise has quietened down this last few days I would like to know what you think of zYA. When IJ heard Heigh Ho, late -of 2ZW, announcing from 2YA, I could hardly recognise his voice. All the tone and timbre seem to have gone from it. Truly his glory hath departed, and Tam wondering now if some of the execrable sopranos would be presentable if they switched from.2YA to 2ZW." . Nasty "Ichabod," you must not say ° things like that about 2¥A. It is just not done. * * Re THEY tell me Frank Crowther’s band is not to go after all. Good old -Frank, may he live long in the land of orchestras and microphones...

~: I BELIEVE Victor Lloyd’s play to be broadcast from 2YA on Thursday is to be.something unusual, and to get the purport one must listen intelligently. Thank heavens someone eredits listeners with a little intelligence; not everyone clamours for the easy-to-digest stuff. ee 8 g TH producers ot a Racing Redaction from 2YA last week caught the sporting air and made it whistle. The talks were a surprise-and well done, too. * % & N glancing through the columns of a local paper recently, I was surprised to see the number of small sets with unknown names Offered for sale at a ridiculously small price. This, I believe, is due to the influx of a number of dumped receivers from the States. Many manufacturers, wanting to get rich quick, went into the radio line, found that radio is not as simple as it looks, and then quit. But they left their sets behind them. Don’t say I didn’t tell you. e. * " WRTAIN American studios have bepn equipped with spark uppararus that transmits "damp" waves," says an exchange. That apparatus should %e useful in places other than America. Of course ,it depends on the interpre- tation one puts on the word damp. LJ * ™ T dinner the other night I was telling a fish story to a golfer whe had just returned from beating the top man of his club and who was telling the story to.a land agent. The air was thick, and instinctively I looked for a member of the DX Club. Sure enough he was there, a "Yes." he said, " and T got KFT so strong that 2YA telephoned to say that my re-radietton was pushing back their waves so-that the microphone was giving back-chat. to the announcers!" =