Radio Round the World

Radio Record, 6 May 1938, Page 37

Radio Round the World

VY HUYVY, the first aeroplane fitted ‘ with combined radio compass and homing device to fly over the route between Sydney and New Guinea, recently reached its destination at Salamaua. The radio compass employed is an Australian production of a-type developed within the Amalgamated Wireless organisation. It can be used to determine the position of the plane if, through fog, rain or lack of identifiable landmarks, the pilot js uncertain of his precise location. Alternately it serves to keep the pilot directly on his course, the homing features of the appliance telling him instantly if he diverges to right or left,

ON a recent Thursday, that everpopular series of musical dramas, "Dream Melodies," was heard for the 200th time on 2GB at 9.30 p.m., New Zealand standard time. This is surely a remarkable record for a series of dramatisations, each complete in itself and each woven round the same theme -that of the relation between popular melodies and events in our lives. "Dream Melodies" have covered all types of music from the stirring "Colonel Bogey" March to the sentimental "Broken Doll," from the plaintive "Chant Sans Paroles" to the thrilling "Gloria" from Mozart’s 12th Mass.