DX NOTES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 26

DX NOTES

reac 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 identification of stations will be forwarded to the League for attention. Particulars of the type of programmes, approximate frequency. date and time heard, are necessary.

HE Voice of America’s new millionwatt stations may be the last word in the East-West radio war. The superpowered transmitters, plus strategic locations, should put the Voice into Iron Curtain territory in spite of Russian jamming. The first of four giants is being built by Continental Electronic at Dallas, Texas, and will operate from Munich, Germany. One million of its 4,000,000watt maximum power will be used, which will make midgets of most other radio stations. The Voice is reducing broadcasts from the United States mainland in favour of locations near Russiandominated territory. Broadcasts on 12 privately-owned stations in the US. have been dropped and construction of two powerful ‘stations on the east and west @oasts of the U.S. has been stopped. Relay stations are operating from Munich, Tangier (North Africa), Salonika (Greece), Manila (Philippines), Honolulu (Hawaii) and Okinawa. The Courier, a floating transmitter broadcasting to East Europe from Rhodes, in the Dode-

canese, will be joined soon by more ship stations close to Russian waters. Two new Voice stations in the Far East are being heard in New Zealand in the early morning. One, at Okinawa, is ideally situated for Chinese broadcasts as it is only 400 miles from the mainland of China. It is on 1180 kes. The other, on 1140 kes., is at Manila. Station Notes The best North American stations at dusk are KFI (680 kcs.) Los Angeles, KWKH (1130 kes.) Shreveport, KVOO (1170 kes.) Tulsa, KEX (1190 kes.) Portland, WOA1 (1200 kcs.) San Antonio, XEB (1220 kes.) Mexico City, WLAC (1519 kes.) Nashville, KOMA (1520 kes.) Oklahoma City, KFBK (1530 kes.) Sacramento, XERF (1570 kes.) Villa Acuna. 2RE (1560 kes.) Taree, N.S.W., has a DX session on Saturday nights. ZBP Pitcairn Island, expected on the air soon, will be eagerly sought by DXers. ; Around the World New. Caledonia: Noumea is using a new 80-metre frequency, 3350 kilocycles, from 7.0 to 10.30 p.m. The programmes are in French and are at good strength. Germany: The Voice of Germany, broadcasting from Cologne, uses 11795 kes. (25-metre band) and 5980 kes. (50metre band) for its North American service, which is being received well in

New Zealand. The session closes at 4.30 p.m. Dernarks Radio -Denmark, Copenhagen, has a good signal with news in English at 2.0 and 4.0 p.m. on 19520 kcs. (31-metre band). A DX session is presented at 4.20 p.m. on Wednesday.