DX Notes.

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 37, 28 March 1929, Page 32

DX Notes.

Word from KFOX. R. ELLIS: writes: "I have received a letter from the proprietors of KFOX concerning about their change of call and the reason: why. They were run by Piggley Wiggley Stores, operating in parts of.the States, and their contract was up and so KFON call and station premises were taken over by the: Hancock Oil Company, operated. and owned by Nichols and Warinner, with’ new station call, KFOX, 239.9 metres, 1000 watts. "Reception has not been up to the mark lately in this part of Taranaki. The Americans off and on, but have not heard a new station for a long while. I received a report froma DX enthusiast that he logged a station with the call 6AY, Cafe Coal, Sydney, on March 13. -Has any listener heard this Aussie? There are new Aussies on the air now. Has any DX enthusiast heard any of them?" Near 4QG! NGB or twice recently, whilst tuning in to 4QG, Brisbane, another "cut in." ' Who is it, I cannot say, as I have been unable to catch the call. Would you kindly let me know who this station is?-A. Shelton (Rewa Rewa). WEXK on Short Wave. ‘T THINK your correspondent J.0.H.T. (Hakataramea) did not hear the eall sign of the short-wave American correctly, as one of the SW stations of KDKA, Pittsburg, broadcasts on 25.4 metres, the call sign being W8XK, not WEXK, heard by him." writes a correspondent. a al