Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1998

Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven

people reluctant to dispose of them, and they are kept in family archives for many years, and sometimes pass from there into the museum. The Postal Museum has several such sets in its collection, often gathered into albums of greetings for a single occasion.

This is one of the younger of the postal services. In 1998 it celebrated its 70th birthday, somewhat quietly. This article is a contribution to marking this anniversary. The basis for writing the history of greetings telegrams is the collection in the Postal Museum’s small printed matter store (D-26.2.14) and thematic collection (D-29.61.). Work on them was assisted by Post Office directives. The table forming an appendix to the report gives an overview of the whole and serves as a catalogue to the collection. I would be very pleased if this report and catalogue encouraged people who have such items in their possession to bring them, enabling us to make the documentary collection of a postal service complete.

Although fewer greetings telegrams - and telegrams in general - are sent year by year, the Hungarian Post Office would like to increase business by widening the range and improving service. The greetings telegram which celebrated its 70th birthday in 1998 is being increasingly displaced by modem electronic means (fax, mobile telephones, personal pagers). The price of the service does not even cover the costs of its delivery system, but raising them would directly result in further reduction in business.

Piroska Farkas Krizsák: Hungarian radio broadcasting anniversaries in 1998

On 28 April 1928, the midday chimes barked the start of transmission of the Budapest I station from a 20 kW transmitter on Lakihegy. The 2 kW, and later 3 kW transmitters that been operating since the start of Hungarian broadcasting in 1925 could not meet the ever- increasing demands of radio listeners’. The Hungarian Royal Post Office ordered the new transmitter from Telefunken. Construction of the transmitter building started on 27 September 1927. The open-ended transmitter was housed in a double T-shaped building and connected to aT-antenna, stretched between two 150 m high frame-structure towers. The antenna mast structure was produced in the Hungarian State Iron and Steel Works.

The new Hungarian Radio Studio was opened on 25 October 1928, in the closed- courtyard building at Sándor u. 7 purchased jointly by the Hungarian Telegram Office, Hungarian Telephone News and Radio Rt. and the Hungarian Film Office. It included a 200 m2 main studio, a small studio, a rehearsal room, a waiting room, and announcers’ and editorial rooms. The main and small studio had a common observation room. The technical equipment was put into the amplifier room which was also the radio’s central switchroom. Engineers of the Post Office Experimental Station produced the acoustic design for the studio and installed its equipment.

On 2 December 1933, a 120 kW transmitter commenced broadcasting from a 314 metre antenna on Lakihegy. The 20 kW transmitter erected in 1928 had failed to meet expectations, and did not provide sufficient signal strength for crystal receivers in most of the country. Signal strength measurements made by the Post Office Experimental Station found that the transmitter’s radiation characteristic did not follow the country’s geographical boundaries. They proposed a high-power transmitter and ten relay stations to improve reception. The new main transmitter, manufactured and installed by the Hungarian Standard Electrical Company, was located in the expanded Lakihegy transmitter building.

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