In Phase and Out

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 10, 16 September 1932, Page 4

In Phase and Out

By

Quadrant

"ON behalf of the 24W Radio C]--* elick. £ th % r AS any Wellingtonian tried taking off his aerial, turning up the volume and then listening to 2YA? It makes a big. difference sometimes. bd % 2 ed. M. BARRIP’S "What Bvery Woman Knows," is to be broadcast from. 3¥A shortly. This is capital. We mere men would never know what évery woman knows unless it is broadcast occasionally. ; ° uw % g ON the new. frequency 1YA comes in quite loud on my modest little set. The awful whine has gone and so has the aéroplane, propeller that seeméd necessity before, to blow the signal down to me. I hope neither exe erescénce comes back. > rt

al * »* THE racing announcer at 2YA certainly knows the game, but I wish hé would be more happy about it: Last Saturday I felt almost as miserable as the weather and didn’t havé a jolly time at all. There must have been some happiness at Hutt Park for I heard 4 laugh occasionally. Is mirth disallowed? by % & ALBERT RUSSBLL is coming back. Surely that means a ‘ community sing broadcast from the wharf. . * ™ % I COUNT myself a lucky listener. I was in a dealer’s shop when Mr. Ninnis spoke during the 2YA school session on "Bird Life in the Anthretic" and I declare that I have not been entertained so well for some time. Even the stern refractious dealer said: "Give us more of that and radio will boom." . Bd % sd AFTER throttling down my set to a comfortable speed, I was enjoying Ted Priestley’s account of the Cinderella Ball when the station switched over to broadenst: a talk on the spy system. Too bad. Ifa comprehensive aceount of the ball could not be put over 2YA, why was the local "B" not let into the picture? : = s oe : HEN I heard "Liebestraum" announced at 2YA, I nearly switched over for something of more recent date, and leSs hackneyed. I’m glad I didn’t though, for it was Frank Crowther’s own atrangement, and he and his ‘talented little band made a great fob of it, Thanks. Frank, .

oe were OF all the stories told, by Dr. Lewis at 2YA the one that amused me most was that of the child whose parent had been asked to wash: her before Sending her to school. The note to the teacher requesting that she. "leat her -not smell her" was pure America\p in its brevity. * bg % NE day last week my door bell rang; A bright young man courteously asked me, "Have you a radio set?" Fearful least. it was the authorities, I tremulously said "Y-yes." "Then you have heard our appeals for the 2ZW Club, perhaps. . ." That was the last straw. This radio club business is getting beyond a joke. = a ee WEET are the uses of anonymity. Said the editor to me the other day: Quadrant, I have had numerous requests for ycur name-from a dainty maid, "Please will you introduce me to Quadrant?" ; from an injured ‘personality,’ "Who is this. man Quadrant? I'll find out and make it hot for him!" From a prominent business man, "Yes, , I knew it was he who saidit. Anyway. who is he? I want to tell him what I think." From one of my friends, "Tell mé, who fs your Quadrant? He knows meé, for I have seen ‘myself in print more than once." Funny, isn’t it? Ly % & EAR Quadrant,-You know that we in Auckland have a lot of stations to choose from if we are lucky, and a lot to sort out if we are unlucky. I am unlucky and get them all at once. Here is what I heard the other night: "A trough of low pressure is situated between the shoulder blades south toward the waistline. In"areas to the north-west and north-east shoulder-straps may be experienced with secondaries tending to move outward." From which I infer that cold will be felt in many, places with a northerly aspect-Yours, Mixum. x x bd DEFINITION of an. optimist: One who commences breakfast sessions at 7 a.m, and really thinks he is playing. to breakfasters.