RADIO REVIEW

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 72, 8 November 1940, Page 47

RADIO REVIEW

Contributed by

N.Z. DX R.A. Inc.

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

With the Branches Dunedin reports good reception conditions and a new record: 1,100 different broadcast stations from all corners of the world have been verified, (A proud record and unequalled anywhere, Congratulations. -DxX Ed.). Scrambled Speech A new order of the United States Federal Communications Commission requires all commercial telephone stations using scrambled speech to identify themselves in plain speech once in every half hour. Parachute Fire-Fighters A small radio transmitter and receiver weighing only 6 lbs. with batteries, ‘phone and speaker, has been specially designed and developed for use by members of the U.S. Forest Service to be used when they are dropped with parachutes from ’planes over fire-threatened areas. The set measures 2 x 414 x 12 inches and operates on frequencies from 30 to 40 mec. with a range up to 100 miles. Valuable Interference! Station XGRS, "The Voice of the Far East," at Shanghai, recently mentioned in this column, is the Nazi mouthpiece in the Far East. It is located in the German Club and is under the direct coritrol of the German Embassy which until recently was utilising the facilities of another Shanghai broadcasting station. The programmes comprise chiefly talks in English, Russian and Italian. Reception is almost always spoiled by Code-Station PPH in Brazil, So interference is useful for oncel On the Shortwaves The well-known Havana (Cuba) station COCQ is reported to have another transmitter operating irregularly on 11.57 me., so do not confuse its transmissions with those of COK, also at Havana, which usually occupies this frequency. PRA9Q at Rio di Janeiro, Brazil, is now operating on 11.67 mec. and should be heard from noon to 4 p.m. HNH at Bagdad, Iraq, is on the air with a 5 kw. transmitter on 15.145 mc. and should be heard in the early morning.