In Phase and Out

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 11, 23 September 1932, Page 4

In Phase and Out

By

Quadrant

EE ES Ee [ve learned a great deal through talking with the editor of the "Times," who has been south during the week, If anything I have to say thereon is not quite correct, blame him, not me, 6% @ e PUNEDINITES are still a bit canny about the extended hours at 4YA. Something for nothing, and they think there is a catch init. On that account some of them do not like even tuning in. S e ba HERE is not much amateur radio construction going on in Christchurch. In fact, it has fallen as flat as.the city itself. Gedlogically speaking, of course. % % & I BELIEVE 2YA is very uncertain in Invercargill, yet a few miles out of the town it comes in at great strength and can be relied upon. Funny, 2YA not liking the southern city, and the people are so hospitable, too. 8 1g bs] A MEBDTING of the local branch of the DX Club was held in Dunedin and the chairman was propounding his views on the Advisory Board of four. There were present the president of the Club (who comes from Invercargill) and the "Times" editor. "There should --er-hbe, four representatives on.the board," he said, "one from each of the four principal provinces-Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, Otago." There was a dead silence, broken by a slight scuffle from his right. "Oh, and-er -Southland." But that makes five, so J am anxious to see what is going to happen. s s br) THE signals best received in most parts of Christchurch are those transmitted by thé trolley buses. For some unknown reason these mobile broadcasting stations are not at all popular, and there is some concern because the city council is talking of putting on more. ~ bd co] [THE various branches of the DX Club concentrate on different aspects of their. hobby, In Auckland it’s the business of getting enough funds to do something; in Wellington-puzzle, find the DX Club; in Christchurch it is how to stop power leaks; organising is Dunedin’s forte, and in Invercargill it is dzing. real and serious ~

(CONGRATULATIONS. The president of the DX: Club was recently mar-ried-to another member of the /filub. The local lads are still tittering’ because when Mrs. President joinés the Club, a few months ago, she was sent 2 circular advising her to get into touch with the local secretary (also the president), "who would be pleased to make her acquaintance." & ™ a. EXCERPTS from a meeting of Welle ington listeners:--"Why don’t they put 2YA on 800 metres and then we coulg listen to it on its first harmonic. It mightn’t come in all over the dial then!" Another: "I wish they woulda" take 2YA out to Upper Hutt. I’d help them carry the thing." o * ~~ 8 {t has been prophesied that within 50 years return tickets to Mars will be available. At that rate within 100 years return tickets will be available for many other places and a new interpretation will then be placed on that Scriptural exhortation: "Oh, Death, where is thy sting?" iv) P=] e AFTER. listening to Sphinx at 2YA make a few figures do exactly as he wanted them, I am at a total loss to understand why the Great Pyramid was given material being. y . & w . WHEN 2YA went to the Hutt Railway Works I felt certain we were going to be surprised by being informed that radio was to be installed on the railways. Workmen working isn’t much of a surprise. . R. voco owes me a new "fuzine cigarette lighter. We did’ the light fantastic so hilariously on Tuesday night that it jumped out of my vest pocket ang I danced on it.