LONDON ON THE LOUD-SPEAKER

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 15, 28 October 1927, Page 4

LONDON ON THE LOUD-SPEAKER

GOOD RECEPTION ON PCJJ RELAY

i etementn Mr. F. W. Sellens, of Northland, reports most interestingly as follows: The past week has been of special interest to short-wave listeners. On Friday evening Jast, October 14, 6AG and RIN were both heard, the former heing spoilt by morse. 2XAD, KDKA were both at good strength on Saturday afternoon, and 2XG was heard testing. 3AQ, 2AU, and 1AT, all New Zealanders, were on the air on Sunday in the afternoon. KDKA and 2XAIT° both were quite good speaker strength during the latter part of their programme, the former signing off at 11.14 Eastern Standard time, and the other at 12.1 Eastern Standard time. Early on Monday morning, while waiting for 2ME, through 2FC, to commence their second Empire programme, I heard 6AG carrying out a ‘duplex telephony test’? with Java. Through listening to this I missed the opening of the Sydney programme, but held them from about 5.20 a.m. till 6.41 a.m., when they signed off. The provramme consisted of vocal and instrumental | items and greetings from prominent Australians to well known men in Great Britain. A similar programme was heard from the same station from 6 to 7 the same day. During the transmission they stated that cablegrams had been received: saying that the morning’s broadcast had been well received in Britain except for fading. Later on the same evening, 6AG, Perth, was heard at his best, and 2Taradale was logged. On Wednesday morning PCJJ was on the air as usual in good form. Early in the programme Mr. den Hertog, the Australasian managing director for Philips, spoke to his friends on this side of the world. After calling a few personal friends, he announced that PCT] would be on the air Tuesdays and -Thutsdays as usual from 18-21 GMT till the end of October, after which they would close down for abont srx weeks for reconstruction He alse stated that this station intended to relay at lest a part of the Olympic Games in 1928, Mr. den Hertog further said that they would relay the London programme from 18-19 GMT (6 p.m.-? p.m.) for the benefit of Australian listeners. At 5.30 a.m., N.Z. time, Big Ben was heard striking 6 o'clock. ¥ be= lieve this is the first time that this famous clock has been heard in New Zealand. It was not heard during the previous relay from PCJJ, of which I got a complete fog. After the clock striking, "London calling" was heard, and the announcement that the London Radio Dance Band, directed by Sidney Firraan, would give some foxtrots. This class of music was on till 5.58 a.m. at good loudspeaker strength. At 5.59 the Greenwich Time Signal was given, which consisted of a long whistle, finishing with a series of dots, the last of which is exactly 6.30 G.M.T. ~

(6 a.m. N.Z. time). After this the weather forecast, news bulletin, sports, theatrical, etc., etc., was given. From 6.15 to 6.30 a.m. the Daventry Quartet gave some musical items, and at 6.90 a lecturette was commenced on Poland, when PCJJ returned to their studio, thus completing a very enjoyable hour Back in London. Reception was splets« 1d. ° During the evening I logged four new stations on telephony-all Australian amateurs, 7AQ Hobart, 2WW and 2RB, of New South Wales, and 4QOR, of Queensland, each in the vicinity of 38 metres. 6AG was also conducting his usual test. Tuesday and Thursday evenings I was not listening. RCB8 (Buenos Ayres) and RFN were heard at good volume by friends on Thursday evening.