A SHORT-WAVE STRANGER

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 49, 22 June 1928, Page 16

A SHORT-WAVE STRANGER

G8 VERAL eorrespondents have reported a short-wave stranger on 24.5 metres or thereabouts. In the opinion of Mr. Sellens the station is AU Japanese who sometimes talks in ‘French (which is reported by one correspondent). The station R2EFNE does not appear in the latest English Call Book. Radio Paris is a station, ‘but no call sign is given for it. We publish our correspondent’s letters as received in the hope of drawing fuller | ilentifieation. Station on 24 Metres, could give me the identity of this station. This morning, June 8, Friday, at 7.30 o'clock, I tuned in a very loud station on about 24 metres. Speaker strength was louder than PCIJJ, to which I had just been listening and modulation was perfect. I held the station till 8 o'clock and a man was speaking in slow French the whole time with frequent announcements, "Aloo, aloo." Then follow;@1 some worl or letters which were .too slurred to understand. The talk ‘appeared to» be news items, as the ; words Paris, Toronto, Nouvelle 'Zelande were mentioned frequently.--Graham (. MaeDiarmid (Hamilton). | | WONDER if any of your readers ] Special Session Fur South America, I APPRECIATE much your S.W. corner and would like to give a few notes on my past two days’ reception. Thursday, Tth-lListened to SSW, 7.30 to 10.30, when signed off after Big Ben struck midnight. As usual it was much stronger towards the end of transmission. 10.45 a.m., tuned in a station speaking Spanish on about 36.5 metres, but got no call sign, At 1.30 p.m. tuned in the best programme I’ve had yet. All announcements and speech were in Spanish. The speaker prefaced the items with senoras and caballeros, and called various senors and senoras in Havana, Buenos Aires, Uruguay, efe., and mentioned Nei

Zelandia. It turned out to be Dindhoven broadcasting a special programme for South America. First there were some splendid 'cello solos, then later jazz xecords, one in particular being strong enough to dance to:’ "Who's Wonderful, Who's Maryellous, Miss Annabel Lee." Closed down 38.35 p.m. with National Anthem. Friday, Sth-POJJ at 7.30; signed off 7.35 with anthem, . At 7.85 am. I tuned in a very powerful station, 25 metres (about). It was Mr. Sellens’s friend, "AU Japanese." I listened to him till he signed off, with the exception of listening to 2 lecture by Sir Alan Cobham from 5SW on his trip over Africa and its aims. He gave as its aims: To survey the possibilities of British aviation in Africa; to test out the allmetal flying boat, and to survey the through air route from the Mediterranean to the Cape. To return to our friend. I'd have to polish up my French to read him, but I got a lot of what he said: "Notre transmission continue jusqu’a vingt trois heures a Greenwich" (our transmission will continue till 11 p.m. G.M,T.). He mentioned after his call on several occasions a Monsieur ? a’ Paris. His call sounded like this: "Ullo, ullo, R deux furee," which I read as R2FNE. He talked a lot ‘gbout Te General Pershing et se Americaines; also . lle. Monsieur ? a Rouen et M? a Boulogne. He) ‘signed off at 10.30 a.m. Very polite about it. Said something about. "vous nous excusez." All talk and ‘news items. : , On May 30 I heard the nightingale put on the air twice from 5SW. P.S.-R2FNE mentioned something about transmission’ a dix sept heures a Dimancbe (17 G.M.T. Sunday). Heard in Taranaki. PERHAPS some of your 8.W. enthusiusts may be able to identify an S.WV. station I have received recently. This stranger is on about 24-25 metres, and was on the air on Friday and Saturday mornings, June 8 and 9, from a.m. to 10 a.m,, and again this morning at 6.50 a.m. (Tuesday), but was not on the air when I tuned-in again at am. The station came in at loudspeaker strength with good modulation. The "programme" consisted of talk in a foreign language, interspersed with announcements of (sounded like), "Ullo, ullo, ullo. Au Nov Guinea. Tllo, ullo."-7, R. Miller. Believed to be French, WISH to report reception of a highpowered station which I am positive was this new French station of 50 kilowatts, situated in Paris. I will write what I entered up in my diary. Thursday morning, June 7.-Picked up a foreigner on about 26 metres at 7.40 a.m. He was about five or six degrees above 5SW’'s dial setting, Volume and clarity were remarkable. He would read something, evidently from a newspaper, at the end of which he would appear to say, "Hullo, hullo, YO Japauese." BHowever, it was not a Jap. Of that I am positive. During his talk he spoke of Coliere, the French aviator. He was still going strong at 9.10 a.m. 1° h speech, and at regular intervals he would give his call. The following morning I tuned-in to where I had r ceived him on the dial, but I could not locate him. This was at about 7.20 a.m, . However, as luck would have it, I just happened to run across him at 7.40, when he came on the air. He was talking’ partly in broken English (very broken) about Amerivn and New York, and his volume and Clarity eclipses anything heard on short-wave bind before, Left him at 5.30 a.m. sharp. : . Picked him up again on Tuesday morning, June 12, when he came on the air punctually at 7.40 a.m. Speech was all that was received, I was surprised in not seeing it mentioned in your "Short Wave Corner" or in your "Mailbag.’ Surely someone else must have heard it; at any rate, they will be able to confirm my report. My set is an adapter, the circuit of which was got from the "Radio Record" and it functions wonderfully.D. Wuston, Waitaki, B.TLS., Oamaru,