RADIO REVIEW

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 18, 27 October 1939, Page 55

RADIO REVIEW

Contributed by

N.Z.

DX R.A.

Inc.

Address all Communications — P.O. Box 437, DUNEDIN.

With the Branches Northland: The meeting on October 4 was well attended. Reception conditions at beginning of month were stated to be poor. Best broadcast verification was KRLD, Dallas, Texas. KZRM Manila won shortwave section. The competition leaders are D. Saies, R. Roycroft and S. Ruddell. At the conclusion of the formal business members spent an enjoyable evening as guests of John Stewart. A welcome is extended to any Whangarei enthusiast to attend the local branch meetings which are held on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 21 Anzac Road. (Thanks, but regret unable visit Whangarei meantime.-DX.Ed.)

In a previous issue we gave the name of a new Auckland member as Tracey, this should have been Stacey. Brevities 4QS, Dalby, Queensland, was to open on October 17, using 10 k.w. power on 760 k.c. (same at 2YH Napier). 3CS was heard on October 11. This new Victorian announces "3CS, The Colac Station," and can be heard on 1130 k.c. after 2ZB Wellington closes. JOAK-2, Tokio, 870 k.c., has been heard with English and native items until 2.30a.m. Some time ago this late session mainly consisted of news items in English. The Sydney station, 2GB, suffers severe interference from JOAK-2 which is so strong, that it is suggested that possibly the promised power of 100,000 watts is being employed,

Japanese broadcast-band stations usually devote the last half-hour or so of the programme to news items in Japanese; but ‘immediately before closing at approximately 1.15a.m. N.Z. Summer Time, the station call is given in English. Shortwave Notes The American view of the latest news can be heard every night at 6.55 p.m. through WCBX New York on 6.12 m.c. On week-days WCAB Philadelphia on 9.59 m.c. usually carries the same broadcast. HS8PJ at Bangkok, Siam, is now on the air every day except Tuesday from midnight to 3.a.m., part of the broadcast being a relay of HS7PJ’s programme. Incidentally, Siam has now reverted to its older name of Thai. The Oslo, Norway, transmitter on 11.735 m.c. is LKQ, and can be heard from 7 until 11.40 p.m. At this time, the transmission is switched to LKV on 15.17 m.c. until 3 aim., when it returns to LKQ, continuing there until 8 a.m. The Madrid transmissions through EAQ are not heard very well now,

though the station is still on the air from 10a.m. to 12.30p.m. daily. If it is heard, a report to Apartado 951, Madrid, Spain, will most likely ‘be acknowledged. YSM San Salvador, Central America, is scheduled to use 11.71 m.c. from 5 to 7a.m., but may be difficult to hear on account of the Swedish transmitter SBP on 11.705 m.c. Finland is reported to have had a 100 kilowatts transmitter under construction in connection with next year’s Olympic Games, but it will most likely not now be completed. A new Cuban transmitter is testing on 7.80 m.c. with the call of COBF. It is located at Havana. At the same time, Havana amateur stations have been contacting American amateurs on the 20 metres ‘band for reports cf its broadcasts. W2XGB, the Press Wireless Station at Hicksville, New York, recently conducted special tests in an endeavour to contact the planet Mars,