DX NOTES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 18

DX NOTES

HESE notes are supplied by the New Zealand Radio DX League and are designed to record items of interest from overseas stations on both the broadcast and shortwave bands. Inquiries sent to The Listener regarding the fdentification of stations will be forwarded to the League for attention. Particulars of the type of programme, approximate frequency, date and time heard, are necessary. [-EBRUARY 24 is the 10th birthday of the Voice of America. On this day in 1942, the United States Government entered the field of international broadcasting. At first German and Italian language programmes were broadcast to Europe through the British Broadcasting Corporation and _ station WLWO Cincinnati, Ohio. At the end of World War II., the Voice of America had grown from one small studio in New York to a powerful organisation. broadcasting to Europe from 26 shortwave transmitters on the Atlantic seaboard and to the Far East from 10 transmitters on the Pacific Céast. Programmes were relayed from Algiers, London, Luxembourg, Hawaii, Saip and the Philippines. Today, the Voice of America broadcasts in 46 languages from 38 isin hiitiiee in the ~ United States and over relays at Munich, Tangier, Salonika, London, Manila and Honolulu. At the end of the war, the Voice of America passed from the control of the Office of War Information to the State Department. In 1948, an Act of Congress established the Voice of America as part of a programme designed to promote better understanding of the United States among the peoples of the world. Today, the Voice of America is concentrating on bringing information to its friends behind the Iron Curtain. ‘ll Pay That One" John Juan-actor, singer, dancer and radio star-compéeres I’/] Pay That One, one of the most popular variety-quiz shows on Australian radio, broadcast by Radio Australia on shortwave at 8.45 p.m. on Fridays. Born’in a small South Australian town, John Juan went to seek a career in London on the advice of Dame Clara Butt. Within three weeks he was engaged for a season at the Coliseum and later had big engagements in musical comedy and revue. When he returned to Australia he entered radio

in Western Australia. Today, through Radio Australia, he is well known to listeners throughout Asia and the Pacific, Around the World Philippines: The Far East Broadcasting Company, Manila, operates a noncommercial missionary broadcasting station with six transmitters. Using the slogan, "The Call of the Orient,’ the stations use 32 languages and dialects. Frequences used are DZAS (680 kes, broadcast), DZB2 (3320 kes), DZH6 (6030 kcs), DZH7 (9730 kcs), DZH8 (15300 kes), and DZH9 (11855 kes). Best signal is DZH8, opening at 8.0 p.m. in English. (See photograph above.) Pakistan: Radio Pakistan, Karachi, i received at good strength on 15330 kcs (19-metre band), with news in English at 2.30 p.m. Canada: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s transmission to the South Pacific is now heard on a new frequency, 5970 kcs (50-metre band), using the call-sign CKNA. The other outlet is CKLO on 9630 kcs (31-metre band). The programme is heard from 8.40 to 9.45 p.m. on Sundays and Wednesdays. The programme originates at Montreal and transmitters are at Sackville, New Brunswick. : U.S.A.: The Armed Forces Radio Service March of Events programme, heard at 6.30 p.m. on Sundays, features news of the week from all parts of the world. Signals are best on 6075 kcs (49-metre band) and 11870 kcs (25-metre band). -_-_- SS