DX NOTES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 896, 5 October 1956, Page 16

DX NOTES

"THESE 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. 4

OICE OF AMERICA: The great strides in the activity of the Voice lof America is shown in a new pro- | gramme guide which is now available free from VOA. This 48-page booklet | lists the programmes for the main coun- | tries of the world, and in the New Zealand section we find that two transmissions are for reception in this area. The best received is the Music, U.S.A., programme, heard nightly from 10.0 p.m. to midnight on 9590 kc. (31-metre band). The programme consists of old and new favourites in the musical field played with interesting sidelights on the artists from a VOA ‘disc jockey. The second transmission, 11.30 a.m.-12.0 noon, is broadcast on 21740 kc. (13-metre band) and 17770 ke. (16-metre band), the programme consisting of news, commentary and features. This broadcast is directed to Asia, and therefore is not at an optimum listening time for this country. VOA is now broadcasting in 41 languages, and has a network of 79 transmitters, including 30 shortwave stations in the U.S.A., which are operated for the VOA by private broadcasting companies. Government-owned and controlled relay stations arte located at Salonika (Greece), Tangier (Tangiers), Colombo (Ceylon), Munich (Germany), Manila and Luzon (Philippines), and Okinawa. Munich, Luzon and Okinawa have mililon-watt transmitters, the world’s most powerful known broadcasting facilities. The two stations in the Pacific, Okinawa and Luzon, can be heard on broadcast band, on 1180 and 1140 kc, respectively, and these stations can be heard in the early morning from after 2.0 a.m. to fade-out at 5.0 a.m. VOA broadcasts are also relayed by BBC transmitters which are leased for this purpose, while many other stations take relays of VOA specific programmes for internal listening. : Requests for the new VOA Worldwide Radio Programme Listings should be made to Voice of America, Washington, D.C., U.S.A,

Australia: On October 7, Radio Australia revised its scredule, and this coincided with the reversion to Standard time by most European countries. The British Isles transmission. which is well received here on 11740 kc., will now be heard 7.45-9.0 p.m., while the DX session of information for shortwave listeners will now be heard from 8.44 p.m. on Sundays. The service from Melbourne for New Zealand listeners is now presented from 4.29-9,15 p.m. on 11740 kc. (25-metre band); and 8.0-10.0 aim. on 11760 ke. (25‘+metre band). j Albania: Seldom heard isthe Tirana station broadcasting from this Southern European country. The regularly scheduled news in English is now being carried on an additional frequency of 6815 ke. (44 metres). The programme is continued on the 7850 kc. (38 metres) channel, the English release being at 8.30 a.m, Indonesia: The morning transmission in English from Djakarta, is now released on a new frequency of 11800 ke (25 metres). The broadcast, though intended for Europe, is well received in this area, on this new frequency, from 7.0 a.m. to 8.0 p.m., while the alternate frequency of 9865 kc. (30 metres) also provides strong signals.