In Phase and Out

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 7, 26 August 1932, Page 4

In Phase and Out

By

Quadrant

AUNTY, how could you! A child’s item in a children’s session had to be omitted, and the aunt in expressing her sorrow said that she would have to give the child a date! s * % I VISITED a friend’s place the other night. All were round the radio, looking most distressed, and about the first question hurled at me was: "What is the matter with 2YA?" with emphasis on the "is." "Tune in 1YA, and he is there;\ tune in 3YA, still he is there; he is spoiling 4YA, and he’s all over the dial and right off it." I know only one term, and so with a glow of pride I replied that it was "crossmodulation," and that it was the after effects of something poured into the innards of the station, by a great radio doctor, to make it steadier. + Ls Em

ON of the sweetest broadcasts 1! have heard for some time was 2ZW’s lady announcer singing "I Bring a Love Song,’ one day last week. She has an admirable voice, which broadcasts well. s gS & HY do golfers pick on me? Comes another letter :-"Dear Quadrant: If you had ever duffed your approach to a green you would know what the foot-and-mouth disease is," and signed "Golfer." What an innuendo, but J thought some one wouldn’t see the point. And all this because many moons ago I suggested that a running commentary of a golf match should be broadcast, & oy oS Y home literally reeked of kerosene while I was listening to a programme from Wellington’s "B" station one night in the week. It’s offensive stuff. * % t THE capital has found its voice again. Presumably the Pacific will be given a say when 2YA comes up to 10 kilowatts. RITAIN now has nearly five million licensed radio sets representing an annual income of £2,500,000. Now we can see why Sir John Reith says: "We shall give the public not what they want but what they should want." There’s no harm in saying big things when oné has the someth.ng to come and go on. ‘ oa Be ¥ e [t is reported that radio has been successfully used in mines to ine

erease the output of the miners. If wish it would have thé same effect on my loudspeaker-or is it my last valve? & a 8 OYA'S announcer ig evidently a man of many parts. His versatility during the children’s session on(Saturday was amazing. ) s s- Pa AN ambitious radio writer in » "daily," condemning knob twirling says: "It is no use trying to hear two stations at once.’ When some stations I know are on the air, it is no use trying not to. ‘S % A RUST a woman to have the last word. You all have heard 4ZL relaying KFI and been disappointed , because you have found it was not th real McKay. A friend of mine who had just bad an aerial erected so that she could tune in the Americans was very thrilled to hear KFI coming in "loud and clear." It sounded too good to be true, and it was, for after diverse questions and diplomatic explanations we decided it was 4ZL relaying the American. "But," she concluded, "it was actually KFI we heard, wasn’t it?’ The set had doné all it had beer called upon to do. She was happy and I had lost just another argument.

SOMETHING went wrong at 2YA one night last week. They forgot the "standing by session." I hope no one will get hauled over the coals as a result, though I must admit I enjoy that delightful little interlude. bd & By "THE Columbia Broadcasting System of America has its own lnperna tional problems. The other evening Tito Guizar, a young Mexican’ tenor whose mother is Italian and whose father is French, sang a German song in English. The orchestra was conducted by a Russian, who later sang an Wnglish song in German. Fo % 4 AN English pauper, talking of radio in 1922, reproduces a typical query of those days: ‘I have manufactured a cry-, stal machine ang am using the spring) of my bed as an aerial and a flower-pot', for my earth. The flower-pot is right ful with dirt, and the earth lead is buried in it. I cannot hear anydne speaking or singing, so I .thought = woulg ask you if anything ig wrong."