THE D.X. CLUB Views and News.

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 36, 22 March 1929, Page 25

THE D.X. CLUB Views and News.

Stations for Indentification. AN you advise me of the whereabouts of a station I have received on several occasions (Friday last at 9.50 p.m.)? Its wavelength is between 2YA and 2FC, approximately 428.8 metres. I have never heard the station "calling," but it appears to carry on two-way communication in a foreign language, and as it is at good loudspeaker strength it is apparently somewhere "near-at-hand.’-"RHEOSTAT" (Auckland). (GOULD any listener tell me which American station operates on approximately 231 metres, and a eall that sounded like KG1i and another letter I could not catch at all., Idaho. Music quite fair strength. At times playing old favourites. Also heard to-night at medium strength K.S.L. Salt Lake City, Utah. KVOO was coming in strongly about a fortnight ago for several consecutive evenings.-L. A. KBELLICK (Mangamahu).

The C. A. Larsen. ON Saturday, 9th instant, at 5 p.m., when 2YA closed down, another station came in at great strength on the same readings as Wellington. The talk was all in a foreign tongue, but on three occasions we distinctly heard the call, Hulloa, Hulloa,-C. A. Larsen! I would greatly appreciate any information you could give me on the matter.-C. C. KING (Geraldine. ) [This would be the C. A. Larsen, a Norwegian mother whaling ship, which would be at the time a few days off the New Zealand coast, bound for the Panama Canal.] Station WEXK. AN anyone tell me where WEXK, America, is situated. I am practically certain the above is the correct call sign, as I heard it twice on the Sth instant from 3 to 4 p.m. on a wavelength of 25.4 metres. They closed down at 4 p.m., and were about equal gtrength to W2XAF.-J.O.H.T. (Hakataramea). American Stations. | I THINK the station KOJJ, California, which "Kauspanka," Hastings, heard is KHWJK, California. I heard’ this station several nights on 260 metres. Has any listener heard a station on about 545 metres? I have heard one there several times, but fail to get his call. From March 1 to 11 I have heard the following stations :-WJAG, 288 metres; KPLA, 526 metres; WDAH, 484 metres; KYW, 294 metres; KPQ, 248 metres; WMBD, 208 metres; WIOD, 242 metres; WOAT, 252 metres; KGDR, 219 metres; KHQ, 508 metres; WCCO, 370 metres; WOW, 508 metres; KLX, 341 metres; KGIQ, 227 metres; KWWG, 238 metres; WWAE, 250 metres; WCLO, 250 metres ; WAPI, 263 metres. And also 116 other American stations heard since September 1, 1028 ee ANTENNA" (Le Bon’s Bayi

Verifications from America. I HAVE just recéived three verifica« tions from America. The first was KFOX; this station also sent ma a page from "Radio Doings," on which particulars of KEJK were printed, KEHJK transmits on 256.3 metres, with a power of 500 watts. I also received a letter from KTM, which is the new call-sign of KNRC on 384.4 metres with 500 watts. KTM broadcasts daily from 8p.m.tolam.P.8.T. It.is situated in. Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California. The station WHER, which I report~ ed, is WAPI. In the "Record"? WAPI is said to be situated in Alaska, but (Continued on page 31.)

The D.X. Club

(Continued from page 25.) the letter stated that the station transmits on 268 metres with 5 kw. from Birmingham, Alabama, with studios at Aupurn and Montgomery also. The following is an extract: "We broadcast late programmes, beginning Saturday night about midnight and lasting about three hours. ‘This is the second letter we have received from New Zealand."

Yours truly.

KAUSPANKA

(Hast-

ings).