SHORTWAVE HIGHLIGHTS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 419, 4 July 1947, Page 11

SHORTWAVE HIGHLIGHTS

Broadcasts from Canada EGULAR shortwave broadcasts to Australia and New Zeaiand by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation were inaugurated on Monday last and will in future be heard on Sunday evenings. The first of the regular broadcasts is scheduled for July 6. These programmes may be heard from 7.45 until 9.0 p.m. and the stations are CHOL (11.72 mc/s., 25.60 metres), and CHLS (9.61, 31.23). In 1942 the CBC began building an international shortwave service, Broadcasts of world news, home news and programmes designed for the entertainment of Canadian troops became a daily feature. To-day Canada still broadcasts news and feature programmes to the continent in most of the European languages, as well as messages to the relatives of P.O.W.’s still in Canada. Recently transmissions began to the Caribbean and Latin America and these have been well received. The transmitters are at Sackville, New Brunswick, which is relatively close to the main cities and as far as possible from the north magnetic pole, which is the centre of a zone having high absorption to radio waves. Special DX Broadcast trom Sweden: This Saturday, July 5, the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, Stockholm, will dedicate an hour broadcast in English to the New Zealand DX Club. This broadcast will be on 10.780 mc/s., 28.78 metres, and 6.06 mec/s., 49.59 metres, and will be heard from 7.0 a.m. to 8.0 a.m. The programme will include music and talks on Sweden and a talk on the New Zealand DX Club and New Zealand. Reports on reception, etc., may be sent in to the New Zealand DX Club Inc., 212 Earn Street, Invercargill.