In Phase and Out

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 16, 28 October 1932, Page 4

In Phase and Out

By

Quadrant

COULDN’T get away from "good times again" talk last Wednesday. Both 2YA and 2ZW were simuitaneously. going strong during the talks session on the return to prosperity. s s > "THE two outstanding broadcasts of the season-Szigeti at one end and the carillon at the other. Listeners can place them to suit. ® s s BELIEVE that owing to the extreme preference of a B station for a certain comedienne’s records, it is becoming known as "Fields Station No. 1." Ly % Ss. (SHANGES are being made in the studio at 2YA to make the orchestra’ sound like a real one. It is hoped that consideration will be given to the piano. I get so tired of listening to a kind of pianoforte solo, with a kind of orchestral accompaniment, that I often have to go over to the B to keep my musical discernment of orchestral performances at proper value. * a ms "So and So kids himself he is a radio mechanic," a friend told me during the week, "but he overdid it. His father bought a~£65 machine and let him loose, on it, so he got a spanner and serewed things up inside. In rolled the stations---the Americans, Japs and Chinese were good. The boy became enthusiastic. "‘A little more, dad, and we will hear England.’ "‘Good old England, son; go to it,’ replied dad. "And son got to tvork with the spanner again and screwed her up still farther; but instead of England coming in the set went off with a bang-~£65 pounds blown to pieces." That’s a true story, and I am going to write to "Questions and Answers" to find ont exactly what hapnened.

AYS a Dunedin paper: "There arrived at 4YA this week a new announcer in the person of Mr. A. Ninnis, who has held the position of senior announcer at head office for some time." I’ve been wondering what the job of senior announcer at head officewould be. It wouldn’t be announcing new policies, because the board hardly require a man for that alone. No; the facts are wrong. Mr. H. Ninnis was not at head office. Was it this paper which made the faux pas with regard to Mr. Clive Drummond? s ye % . AM going to get a set with automatic volume control so I can listen to 2YA in comfort. One day last weels it was like a cork in a.rough sea. % x / DAR Quad,-A ‘recent "Record" announcing grand opera singers from i1YA. refers to the "many satelites" which have appeared before the microphone: "First Don Bradman, then Szigeti’-Satellites with only one I, too. Szigeti a satellite! Of whom, of what? Tut, tut, Mr. Quadrant-Ygurs, "Stars." ~*~ Szigeti was also ambidextePus! What has he done to deserve it all? + s HD last word in rusticity was the gnarled old man so busy iu the potato field. At least, so thought the young journalist in search of "copy." "Good morning, gaffer," said. the mau of ink, leaning over the gate, "a lovely day." . "Aye," answered the aged one, resting on his hoe, "but there’s thunder comin’ along." © "How do you know that?’ the scribe asked, "nosing" good copy; "red sky at morning-shepherd’s warning, eh?" "Dunno nothin’ about that," was the reply, "but it were on the wireless last ne and in all the papers this morn pe