THAT RUSSIAN STATION

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 29, 3 February 1928, Page 12

THAT RUSSIAN STATION

"REM"? LOCATED. Some little mystery, it will be femembered, has attached to a Russiatt station heard frequently in New Zealand from 10.30 approximately onwards. Mr. W. A. Waters, of Palmerston North, who has particularly interested himself in the question, communicated by cable with the sta‘tion, and has received a postcard from it giving the necessary information. This postcard shows that the station is "RIM," and it is described as a "crystal controlled short-wave radio telegraph and broadcasting station." he wave-length used is 60.12 metres, and it transmits regularly Greenwich mean time from 10 o’clock onwards all days of the week except Weduesday, on, which day the transmission is described as not regular. ‘The address of the station is Khabarovsk, Far Fast, U.S.S.R. Listeners in New Zealand who have heard this station have generally regarded the call sign -as being REIN, and Mr. Waters says that he is positive that the annotncer Says REFN sometimes atid sometimes a little later REM. His suggestion is that the REN is the broadcast band station and RIM is the 60 metre. Mr. Zotoff, of Bunnythorpe, who formerly lived at Khabarovsk and Vladivostock, and knows the original commercial _ station REFN, says that Khabarovsk is ahout 450 miles to 500 miles north of Viadivostock.