WHAT'S THAT NOISE FROM NFLD ?


PAUL:	Time for one of the most popular features on The Great Eastern ... 
	What's That Noise From Nfld.  This generates most of the mail here 
	at the BCN, and our first week being carried by the CBC Radio 
	Network brought mail bags bursting at the seams with letters from 
	up-along.

	But before we go mail bag diving, let's hear the noise from Nfld.  
	Engineer Hollis Duffett, fulfil mandate.

SFX:	THAT NOISE FROM NFLD

	If you think you know what that noise is, get a pencil ready, I'll give 
	you our address after we pull this envelope out of the sack du poste.

	And the first letter is from Flin Flon, Manitoba.  And it's from ... Nick 
	McGregor.  Nick writes, "Dear Mr. Mall" ... call me Paul, Nick ... "I am 
	a short wave radio enthusiast and used to occasionally pick up bits of 
	your show and other shows from the BCN (I am particularly fond of 
	'Look It's', which I find mind-expansionary)" ... whatever that means, 
	Nick ... 

	"I now listen to every minute of your program without the constant 
	brain jangling din of static and wave warping" ... never heard of that 
	either, Nick.  "What I'm wondering, Mr. Mall, is how I got BCN on 
	short wave when the BCN call numbers are always stated with the 
	modifier '520 on the Long Wave.'"
	
	This obviously isn't an entry in the contest ... folks, you should write 
	"contest" on the outside of your envelopes so we can put them in the 
	right bag ... but (embarrassed) I should know the answer to this 
	question, I got my second start at the BCN manning the repeater 
	station on the Funk Islands.  But unfortunately I've driven my time on 
	that lonely and desolate rock and what cursory knowledge I had of 
	electronics, completely out of my skull.  But I think it has something 
	to do with atmospheric anomalies, a phenomenon known as tunnel 
	jumping ?  Is that right, Hollis ?
	
	Thanks, Nick McGregor, of Flin Flon, Manitoba, for the question, 
	always glad to be informative on The Great Eastern, but let's go back 
	into the mail bag for an entry to the contest .... and the next note 
	comes from ... St. Ann's Bay, on the south coast of the island.
	
	It's from Eleanor Marks, and Eleanor writes, "Dear Paul, I believe that 
	Noise From Nfld is the famous 1953 University of Nfld at St. John's 
	debate between Cubist painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso, and the 
	surrealist Salvador Dali.  Spanish was the giveaway."  And it's 
	signed, with a beautiful left hand script, Eleanor Marks ... I must 
	improve by writing some day, it looks like chicken scratches ... thank 
	you, Eleanor Marks of St. Ann's Bay, but that answer is wrong.  Keep 
	on trying ... you were on the right track there with Picasso, heh-heh-
	heh ... so folks, get your pens and pencils, we'll play the noise for you 
	one more time and then give you our contest address.  Mr. Hollis 
	Duffett, please.
	
SFX:	THAT NOISE AGAIN
	
	If you think you know what that is, write the What's That Noise From 
	Nfld Contest, c/o the CBC, 342 Duckworth St., St. John's, Nfld, A1C 
	1H5.