The thrill that comes from listen ing to a programme which is being broadcast hundreds of miles away tone that will never fade, It has been estimated that there are over 70,000 "radio sets In Shanghai. lon but of this number probably less than 10,000 or so are short or alle wave receivers. The number - of people who make a regular habit of stoning to foreign short. wave stations Is probably well under 3,000, but indications are that this number is increasing rapidly with the arrival of newer and better" sets on the market.
Conditions in Shanghai are, on the whole, good for foreign. reception, with the late evening and the early morning being the best periods, Halt the thrill of listening in to the foreign stations lies in the fact that when sitting down to an evening's short wave entertainment, the listener cannot accurately prophesy what he in actually going to get.
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