DX NOTES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 9

DX NOTES

5 Baraned notes are supplied by the New Zea land 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 regard ing the identification of stations will be for warded to the League for attention. Particulers of the type of programmes, approximate fre quency, date and time heard, are necessary

| ‘| HE New Zealand Radio DX League is trying to arrange for the short- | wave station at Helsinki, Finland, to broadcast events at the Olympic Games |in which New Zealanders will compete. | It is hoped these events will be broad- | cast especially to this area. Radio Nor- | way, Oslo, will broadcast highlights of | the Games in English from 8.0 to 8.15 {a.m., noon to 12.15, and 2.0 to 2.15 | p.m. daily. More Australian Stations | RAD news for DXers is the announce- | ment by the Australian Postmaster- | General that 17 new. National stations _will be erected in the Commonwealth. ; | This means more interference with sigi nals from stations in North America, ' which provide many loggings for most |New Zealand DXers. Eight of the new | stations will have high power. In addition, the power of 27 existing stations | will be substantially increased. When the stations are built, nearly all Australian listeners will have a choice’ of two National programmes during peak evening listening hours. One new station will be a 200-watt experimental outlet, 3BN Bendigo. This will operate as a "booster," amplifying and rebroadcast- ing programmes from 3AR Melbourne. The Woomera rocket range in South will have its own station, 5WM.

Australian Jazz Band AUSTRALIA'S best-known jazz band, Graeme Bell and -his Australian Jazz Band, is currently giving concerts and studio broadcasts for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. The band, which plays in the Dixieland tradition, recently returned from its second overseas tour. It had .been away for 18 months, and one of the highlights of the trip was an appearance at the Jazz Festival of Britain, where its leader was presented to the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth. Around the World Viet Nam: Radio France Asie, Saigon (formerly Radio Saigon), is broadcasting a programme to New Zealand on

15420 kilocycles (19-metre band) from 9.15 to 10.15 p.m. daily. Signals are good. News is broadcast at 10.0. Guatemala; TGNA, P.O. Box 601, Guatemala City, is being well received on a new frequency of 11850 kcs (25metre band) with English Gospel broadcasts from 3.0 to 3.30 p.m. TGNA is, | like HCJB in Quito, Ecuador, a missionary broadcaster. When closing at 3.30 it makes an appeal to listeners to write to the station about reception. Pakistan: Radio Pakistan, Karachi, is broadcasting a test programme to Britain from 8.15 to 9.0 a.m. daily on 6035 kcs (49-metre band) and 7010 kes (41-metre band). Signals are good on both frequencies. Recorded music is broadcast.