RADIO REVIEW

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 68, 11 October 1940, Page 47

RADIO REVIEW

Contributed by

N.Z. DX R.A. Inc.

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

With the Branches Wellington celebrated their 7th Anniversary in September, and a bumper attendance was recorded for this event. The principal guest was W. R. Jones, better known as " Jonah," who was the first secretary. The South Dunedin member, J. Sanderson, was also present, The Modern Way A young American student worked his way through college by television, says " Radio and Television." "Not by selling magazine subscriptions or pedalling gadgets from door to door, but by means of television is Gordon Jacobs working his way through Union College where he is a freshman. Two hours a night, three nights a week throughout the school year, young Jacobs, who holds a government television operator’s licence, goes to the General Electric television relay station, W2XB, in the Helderberg Hills. His duties consist of checking equipment." Shortwave Notes KZIB at Manila, Philippines, has recently shifted from 6.04 to 6.06 mc/s and is now heard from 8.30 p.m. free from the interference experienced on its former frequency. The same programme is broadcast by another transmitter on 9.50 mc/s and also on 900 ke/s. WNBI Boundbrock, New Jersey, with studios in Radio City, New York, and mentioned recently in these notes as being authorised to operate on 11.82 mc/s from 1.45 to 4.30 p.m., is now being heard on 11.89 mc/s. The same programme can usually be heard through WRCA on 9.67 mc/s. A new Shanghai station is being heard nightly. before 9 o’clock, It is XGRX with the slogan, "The Voice of the Far East." Chimes are used before announcements, which are frequently in English. Sunday should be the best day for reception, as a code station interferes with XGRX during the week. The frequency is 11.94 mc/s, but it is also reported on 11.88 me/s. Broadcast Band "The Nation’s Station" is the slogan of WLW Cincinnati, on 700 kc/s, using 50 kilowatts. This Station has a 500-kilowatt transmitter, W8XO, which is used on the same frequency as WLW. At 6p.m., Summer Time, the call of W8XO has been noted and later that of WLW is heard, There is a noticeable difference in signal strength when the 500 k.w., apparently, is closed at 6 p.m. .WWVA Wheeling, West Virginia, has had good reception lately about 5.30 p.m. 1160 kc/s. A Mexican station-no call noted-has been heard on 1150 kc/s, A Cuban, probably CMCK, closes at 6p.m. on 970 kec/s.