DX NOTES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 988, 25 July 1958, Page 22

DX NOTES

HESE notes bring news about stations in other countries, programmes 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. AUSTRALIAN stations on July 1 made several frequency changes, to free additional frequencies for new stations. The Scottsdale station in Tasmania, 7SD, moves from 1450 to 540 ke,; 7QN in Queenstown, Tasmania, from 540 to 630kcs; and 5AU Port Augusta, South Australia, from 1400 ke. to 1450 ke, This leaves only 2PK Parkes N.S.W. on 1400 ke., which should improve the coverage which 2YX Wellington can give when this station is in service duting Parliamentary broadcasts, OKINAWA: A new station for the Far East Broadcasting Company of Manila is soon to be established in Okinawa with missionary programmes directed to Asia and the Middle East. The new 100,000 watt transmitter is expected to operate on 850 kc. The transmitter buildings afe to be started later this year and the new transmitter (formerly operated in the United States by Associated nN EEE

Broadcasters of San Francisco as shortwave station KWID) will then be installed. Meanwhile back in Manila work is progressing on the new 50,000 watt transmitters, which were also operated in San Francisco and these will continue to operate on the shortwave bands, and take over some of the frequencies at present in operation. FEBC is best received during the afternoons on 21515 ke., in the 13-metre band, and at night on 15300, 11850, 9735, and 6030 ke. Gospel broadcasts are carried in many languages, and when the additional transmitters are in operation the English schedule will be greatly extended. SHORTWAVE CANADA: A special broadcast from Montreal will be heard next Monday, August 4, during the Listeners’ Corner programme. The broadcast will honour the 25th anniversary of the New Zealand DX Radio Association, and tribute will be paid by the CBC to this organisation. The Montreal service to New Zealand is heard each day from 8.30 to 9.15 p.m., and uses 9630 kc. and 11720kc. in the 31 and 25-metre band. The Listeners’ Corner programme each Monday at 8.45 p.m. is introduced by Earl Fisher who reads extracts from letters received in the mail from all parts of the world. Canada is received best in the 31-metre (continued on next page) F vn cer en na an | EE eR ram am a am

(continued from previous page) band, and the programme each day begins. with world news and then features on Canada are presented. : BULGARIA: Radio Sofia in its broadcast to North America, has commenced operations on a new frequency. The broadcast in English at 4.0 p.m. is now released on 15330 kc., in the 19-metre band. SARAWAKE: Broadcasts from Kuching are generally well received in this country, with the broadcasts in English now released at 10.30 p.m. The station recently made a frequency change and now operates in the 41-metre band on 7160 ke. The broadcasts from 10.0 p.m. are normally received clearly but at 11.0 p.m. a transmitter of the’ Voice of America using the same frequency causes interference, VATICAN CITY: The broadcasts from Vatican City now with high powered transmitters in use, are more easily received in this country, and at present the English release at 6.15 a.m. is strong on 9640 ke. in the 31-metre band. Vatican has also been tuned on broadcast band, on its frequency of 1529 kc., but reception of this signal is by no means reliable. Vatican is using 11680 kc. and 9640 kc. in the early evenings when Mass is carried on these frequencies from 7.0 p.m. on Sundays. ALGERIA: Radio Algiers, recently a centre of interest for the whole world, is still received strongly when opening at 5.30 p.m. on 11835kc., in the 25metre band, the programmes at that time being in French. |