In Phase and Out

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 25, 30 December 1932, Page 4

In Phase and Out

By

Quadrant

War is that saying about things being made in Heaven-oh, yes, "Announcers are made in Heaven," but Wellington, and according to the critics, Dunedin, is not heaven all over, S te te HE 1YA news session wants Trimming up a bit. The assistant announcer interrupted the concert session to broadcast the latest cricket results -hot from the batter’s bat "by courtésy Australian Broadcasting Commission." But the score had already appeared in the morning paper! Eva Ne a 9 3Q--ENGLAND calling! Our set . became a nucleus of rapt attention, but its retentive power has faded, und now England calls in vain. This N.Z. has never done, and will never do, listen to programmes it doesn’t like. . . b a a . at HE "Messiah" from 2YA. was one of the few good relays of its kind we have heard recently. * xt 2 M*. VOCO, 2ZW, we congratulate you upon your excellent programme, and incidentally upon the high standard you have maintained in the past year. * % * Host (offering cigars to dx guest) :- What would you like-Havana, old boy? : Dxer: By jove, yes. Mexico is as far east as I have got yet.

NOTICED in the radio notes of a "daily" "that nowadays there are fewer radio fans in the summer than in the winter." That probably accounts for the warm summers experienced these last two years. * "™ * PD¥4R Quadrant,-If Mr. Stilling said that sawn-off guns were used for . buffalo, he’s either talking a lot of bull or should buy another book about "the territory." The cook’s offsider might wear 4 cotton singlet, but I’ll bet Mr. Stilling my old flannel shirt and long-barrelied .3803 (having no further use for thet) that only one out of ten affect the garb he suggests.--Otherwise "O.KDingo. es . % * JD®TERMINED to find out what the public really thought of his window display, an ingenious radio dealer is said to have fixed a concealed microphone in front of his shop and connerted it with a speaker in his office. It must have been rathér fun for him, at , times, I should think-especially if his errand boy went outside and told th next door butcher’s boy what a mean old hound the boss was! . * * « D=24k Editor,--I know my column is bit topsy turvy this week, but it's like me. I’m having a wonderful Christmas. Kind rxregards.-Yours, Quadrant. .