DX NOTES
HESE notes bring news about stations in other countries, programme information and details of special broadcasts for New Zealand listeners. They are supplied by the New Zealand Radio DX League, 212 Earn Street, Invercargill, from which further information can be obtained.
USTRALIA.-Two new stations have taken the air in our sister Dominion in the past few weeks. January 19 saw the opening of 2VM Moree, N.S.W., operating on 1530 kes, with a commercial programme. Closing down time is midnight. A new station of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in South Australia, 5PA at Penela, South Australia, relaying the programmes from Adelaide, is now operating on 1160 kes, the same channel as used by 3XC Timaru. NORTH AMERICA.-Signals on the broadcast band, at dusk, are being received at good strength in favoured localities, when these stations can be heard before the Australian signals become evident. The best received signals are KPOA (630), KFI (640), KNBC (680), KOMO (1000), KEX (1190), CFRN (1260), KOIL (1290), KFAC (1330), WADC (1350), KHON (1380), KGER (1390), KSTN (1420), KENO (1469), WSAN KGON (1520), (1540), XEBG WAKR (1470), KBFK (1550), WLAC (1530), XERF (1510), KXEL. (1570), (1590), These stations are generally good from 7.0 p.m. to 9.0 p.m.
SHORTWAVE ECUADOR.-The well known missionary broadcaster HCJB in Quito has been full of appreciation for the many letters received from New Zealand listeners during 1956. In the past year over 1500 letters wére received from Australia and New Zealand compared with 325 in 1953. A session of programme notes is broadcast at 7.15 p.m. each Saturday, when the English Programme Director, Miss Nancy Willmer,
besides giving advanced schedule information answers letters from listeners. The station operates on 15115 ke., 11915, and 9745 ke. in the 19, 25 and 31 metre bands. This special service to New Zealand is called the Southern Cross Salute and is broadcast 7.0-10.0 p.m. In the past few weeks one of the new 59,000watt transmitters has been used on the 31 metre band. EGYPT.-Cairo Radio. has returned to the air and has a short news broadcast in English at 8.30 a.m. on 9780 kc. The transmission starts at 7.45 a.m. in French and after 8 am. the language used is both French and English. HUNGARY.-tThe broadcast from Budapest in the Foreign Service has been rescheduled with English news at 8.0 and 10.0 am. each day. The 30minute broadcast contains news and commentary and often messages from Hungarian people to friends abroad.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 912, 1 February 1957, Page 15
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