RADIO PROGRAMMES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 263, 4 October 1933, Page 3

RADIO PROGRAMMES

j Radio programmes for to-night are as follow : IYA AUCKLAND (366 metres, 820 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Recordings. 8.30: Sextet, “Bluette,” “Romance.” 8.36: Record. 8.42: Coloratura soprano, Madame Marghorita Zelanda, “O Murm’ring Breezes,” "The Maids of Cadiz,” “The Lark.” 8.50: Record. 8.53: Sextet, ‘With Powdered AVig,’ “Scurf Dance.” 9.0: Weather forecast and station notices. • 9.2: Talk, Lieutenant H. A. Haynes, “Musings Under the White Ensign.” 9.22: Sextet, “Siziiietta.” 9.25: Madame Marghcrita Zelanda, “I List the Trill in Golden" Throat,” “Daisies,” “Midsummer.” 9.32: Dance music. 11.0: Cicee. 2YA WELLINGTON (416.7 metres, 720 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music .8.0: Recorded programme. 3YA CHRISTCHURCH (306 metres, 980 kilocycles).—s.o: Children's session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Inter-’Varsity Debate, Otago University v, Canterbury University College. Subject: “That the Present University of New Zealand is Failing to Justify its Existence.” Otago (negative). Canterbury (affirmative). 9.2: Weather forecast and station notices. 9.4: Reserved. 9.17: Orchestra, “Massaniollo.” 9.25: Record. 9.29: Orchestra, “Unfinished Symphony,” “Allegro Moderato,” “Andante con moto.” 9.47: Record. 9.53: Orchestra, “Danse Macabre.” 10.1: Dunce music. 11.1: Close down. 1. 4YA DUNEDIN (463 metres, 650 kilo-cycles).-—5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Inter-relay with 3YA of debate between Otago University and Can--1 terbury University College. 9.2: Relay from ! 3YA. 10.0: Close down. | 2ZF PALMERSTON NORTH (285.5 1050 kilocycles).—6.ls: Children’s session. 7.0: Early musical session. 8.0: Relay of 2YA. 2EG SYDNEY (451 metres; 665 kilocycles) .—8.0: (Transmission from 3LO) : “Los Cloches Do Corneville” (“The Bells of Corneville”), comic opera in three acts. 9.30: Interlude. 9.35: A recital by the eminent English tenor, Steuart Wilson “Dichterliobo” (“The Poet’s Love”), by Schumann, sung in English. 9.55: Interlude. 10.0: The Wireless Dance Orchestra, presents the latest dance numbers. 10.30: From the studio (Sydney). 2BL SYDNEY- (351 metres, 855 kilocycles).—B.o: First Younger Artists’ Recital, arranged by the Musical Associaion of New South Wales. 9.0: Interlude. 9.10: A celebrity programme. 10.30: Close. 3LO MELBOURNE (375 metres, 800 kilocycles).—B.o: Sec 2FC. . 10.37: Dance music. 11.30: Close. 3AR MELBOURNE (492 metres, 610 kilocycles).—B.o: The Economist at Bay: A series of debates on economic questions. 2: “Are Depressions Inevitable?” The Economist —Professor L. F.' Giblin, and an inquisitor. 8.20: Transmission from Melbourne Town Hall: A concert by Royal Victorian Liodertafcl. Conductor: Frederic Earp. Assisted by Grace Simpson, soprano; Leslie McCallum, baritone. 10.30: Close. EMPIRE SHORT-WAVE STATION. Wave-lengths:—Two of the following, 31.55 m, 31.30 m, 25.53 m, 25.28 m. or 19.82 m. 7.0 a,in: Time signal from Big Ben. “Land and Water,” a programme of records. 7.40: “The Dominions,” a talk by Professor R. Copeland, C.I.E. 8.10: A recital by John Rorke and Phyllis Scott. 8.45-9.0: News bulletin. 11.0 a.m.-1.0 p.in.: Transmission on an omni-directional aerial: 110: Cinema Organ Recital. 11.45: Studio Orchestral Concert. 12.30-1.0: Miscellaneous. Note." —New Zealand time is one and a half hours ahead of eastern Australian time, also ten and a half hours ahead ot British summer time. “BITS ABOUT BROADCASTS.” THE MORNING WATCH. (By “Microphone.”) This week’s notes will deal more particularly with a phase of listening often neglected—that of the early morning search for stations on. the Continent and in the East. Reception appears to have been most satisfactory of late a little out of the city and “Microphone” is indebted to an interested listened for the particulars contained in the succeeding paragraph. For a time, when it was first realised that short-wave equipment was not required to hear these stations, there was quite a deal of comment, but listeners have either taken the experience as a prosaic one now, or (as is probably most likely) prefer to listen in at more comfortable hours. But to the early morning listener there appear to come adequate rewards. This is, after all, real D.X.-ing (simply long distance, infinity is expressed in the “X”). It is understood that listeners have been well-rewarded with the European stations being almost ideal in the point of reception. The language barrier has, of course, rendered identification of individual stations difficult, but the interval signals, peculiar to certain transmitters, are an aid. The following have been heard a little way out. of the city confines: Milan (Italy), 905 kilocycles, 350 metres; Moseow-Stalin (Russia), 70 7 kilocycles, 420 metres; Brussels (Belgium), No 2, 887 kilocycles, 339 metres; and Frankfurt-au-Main (Germany), 1175 kiloevcles, 257 metres. The German station at Heilsburg on 1085 kilocycles, 253 metres, has maintained even volume at medium srongth and can always be depended on. It has been noted that reception of the Continental stations is clearer and the volume greater on the clear and frosty mornings, the reverse being the case when .the sky is overcast and the atmosphere humid. With the approach of summer the signals will weaken. The best time to receive them is from 4 to 6 a.m. (standard time) when daylight seems t.o break the signals. The Eastern stations have also reached local aerials lately. YUL Lahore and ’YUB Bombay (India) have been heard in addition to a number of Japanese. Although those of the land of cherry blossoms are timed to close at about 12.30 a.m., they can sometimes be hoard as late as 5 a.m., probably on special broadcasts, it is stated. I his should make interesting listening, for at t| le evening sessions they are often difficult to identify when the transTasman stations are operating. “Microphone” learns that from information supplied in this column a listener has logged and verified VK2LZ. New South Wales, a station working on 250 metres, 1200 kilocycles. This is an experimental plant and may be heard on Thursday mornings at about 1 o’clock (N.Z. mean time). A nice station card acknowledges Dominion reports. Radio Normandie, Fecamp, France, had advised that they would broadcast a special programme from September 25 to October 2. but apparently reception was not possible When Air-Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith leaves England on his next flight to Australia, a venture expected to occupy seven days, he will each night send in code a message to Mr John Stannage in Sydney (his radio man in the Southern Cross) and the progress will be broadcast through 2UW Sydney (267 metre?. 1125 kilocycles) and a network of stations yet to be named, ihe time, of course, depends on when the Famous airman' lands and establishes contact with a cable office. It is interesting to learn that on October 21 2UW’s new studios in Market Street, Sydney, will bo opened by th* Prime Minister (Mr J. A. Lyons). Interest attached to the cable message published last week to the effect that the BBC. had decided to discontinue Ihe regular television “radiocasts” in the meantime. In . view of the cost of producing these programmes the Corporation could not continue its policy indefinitely in the absence of public support and a census was recently taken to determine the popularity of the transmissions which have been rarltatod in the past twelve months Ihe result must, have disclosed still further lack o support. A representative of the Band Television Company, Ltd., stated that foi the past year television broadcasts had been given four times, a week. Asked whether those were likely to be discontinued if he B. did not receive satisfactory replies to its appeal, lie replied: “Wo have heard nothing to suggest that these experimental broadcasts will be discontinued. _ From the reports and illustrations ot the site selected for the now IYA .station it appears that a well-nigh perfect location has been secured, for there is an abundance of running water and marshy Land. The big job is yet to be faced, foi the earth and aerial system. are of paramount importance in a transmitter. The builders of the well-known £60,000 plant _tn Los Angeles have 30 acres of land 20 miles

out of the city and there have buried no less than 20 miles of copper wire (a prodigious amount) for an earth, ploughed 18 inches underground. The masts of this station are 400 feet high and 750 feet apart. The engineers on New Zealand’s latest plant, with that of 3YA, should have excellent opportunities to instal an efficient system. Here is an idea from New Zealand which might well be copied by the 8.8. C., says a writer to a radio journal in England. I hear that 2YA, Wellington, now has a small auxiliary station working on a shorter wave-length, which is specially used for broadcasting gramophone records while the parent station is sending out the news bulletins, the music being for the benefit of those who have already seen the news in the papers. Yet listeners at the heart of the Empire have no alternative to the First News Bulletin, most of which is available at length in the evening papers. The value of 2YC has been proved many times since its inception when 2YA has suffered a breakdown or had its aerial, damaged. The auxiliary is a complete unit, even to the aerial. “REMEMBER THIS RADIATION.” Remember that “summer time” enters in at 2 a.ni. on Sunday and that New Zealand time is then exactly 12 hours in advance of Greenwich mean time. When the clocks are advanced half an hour the following position will obtain. Wo will be in advance of eastern Australia .(New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania) 2 hours; of South Australia, hours; of Western Australia, 4 hours; of Japan, 3 hours; of the Pacific Coast of America, 20 hours, mountain time 19, central time 18, eastern time 17, Atlantic 16; eastern Europe, 10 hours; mid-Europe, 11 hours.. These are the principal differences, and it must be remembered that there will also be a resultant difference in signal strengths early in the evening.