Misguided Enthusiasm

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 42, 28 April 1933, Page 6

Misguided Enthusiasm

Reports on Empire Station

UDGING from reports which appear from time to time in English radio papers, there are in New Zealand some enthusiastic amateurs and shori wave enthusiasts who periodically wriie tbe B.B.C, authorities recording what they regard as very fine reception of the new IEmpire short-wave transmitting station ut Daventry. While from the point of view of these amateur enthusiasts, and the standard of reception to which they are ac tomed, the reception they receive the Empire station may be good, it must unfortunately be recorded that, from the point of view of the standard of reception capable of being retransmitfed over the national network in New Zealand, the results secured from the new Daventry station are not particularly good.. Listeners who remember the rebroadcasts of these transmissious shortly after the inception of the service will recall the results experienced, and will appreciate that a particularly high standard of clarity in reception must be secured before rebroadcusts can be undertaken. Regular reports to the B.B.C, authorities are made by responsible listeners in New Zealand, and it would be wel. for "hams" and-other wireless enthusiasts who feel constrained to report to the Home authorities te at least acquaint themselves with what are proper standards of reception hefore Writing in terms of undue enthusiasm.