Additional Notes

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 36, 22 March 1929, Page 32

Additional Notes

Mr, A. P. Morrison writes :- THE Californian shortwave station, W6XN, sw. transmitter, of KGO, Oakland (California), was heard on Sunday, March 10, at good strength. It was first heard at 2.45 p.m. with the jazz item, "Button Up Your Overcoats." W6XN was linked up with New York, and was broadcasting musical items by the Lucky Strike orchestra. At 3.20 p.m. they discontinued the long relay from New York, and continued from the Californian studio. The first item was by Mr. Irvin Kennedy, one of KGO’s leading tenors, Following this a saxophone solo, "A Precious Thing is Love." It was then announced there would be items from their San Francisco studio. The first item, was by the Californian San Tan Girl, a vocal item, "The Song I Love," and was followed by an orchestral item, "Henry VIII.", a vocal item by Mr. Harry Stanton, The Waitiona Harmony Four sang "Jf You Want the Rainbow." At 4 p.m. there was a very pleasing entertainment by the Sunshine Peaches, from its peach canning company, of California. At 4.35 p.m., New Zealand time, W6XN linked up with W2XATI, Schenectady, New York, which was broadcasting a special programme to the Byrd Pxpedition in the Polar regions. W6XN closed down at one and a-half minutes past 12 p.m., Californian time, or 8.14 p.m., New Zealand time. ‘Throughout the whole programme strength and modulation were perfect. At 3 p.m. he was R7, and volume increased to R9 before he closed down. I understood the announcer to say "W6XN, wave in kilocycles, was 15.489R.", but I think I got him wrong. There was quite a number of American s.w. stations on the air apart from W6XN. There were W2XAF, W2XAD, Schenectady, N.Y., and KDKA. At 2,15 p.m., our time, W2XAD, on his 19-metre wave, was coming in at good strength; R7, and clear.