THE D.X. CLUB Views and News.

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 14, 18 October 1929, Page 10

THE D.X. CLUB Views and News.

Identification Wanted CAN any listener identify an Ameriean station working on a frequency between that of 2KY and KNX, from 6 p.m. to 7. 80 p.m., approx., New Zealand time. I was trying to locate WLIXG and thought I had that station, when TI heard the announcement which,

Tt think, contained the letters WJJ.-

C.

V.

Blucher

(North Auckland).

pr any listener hear two strangers ‘testing on Monday, October 7, between 8.80 and 4 pm.? Their wavelength being 452 and 505 metres (665 and 595 k.c.), respectively. Talk was carried on in a foreign language. The only words spoken in BHnglish were, "FWullo, Taylor’ and "Hullo, Cameron,"

No musical items were played.-

R. J.

Harvey

(Marton).

I RECHIVD two Morse stations, WEC and KEH, transmitting on 60 metreg (5000 kc.) and 65 metres (4615 k.e.); respectively. They are both received very strongly any night after %- o’clock. and I would like to know

their locations.-

C. F.

Cross

(Kaipara).

(ovuLD anyone give me any information concerning station 38DX, Melbourne, on approx. 247 metres (1215 ke.) ? I understand from his eall that 8EX is an experimental station. 3RI, Melbourne, is listed as having 10 watts

power. I have received this station quite well on a 4-valve set, and -would like to know if this is usual, as the station is a low-power one. Can any short-wave enthusiast tell me what station (a foreigner) operates on 44 metres (6865 k.c.)? I heard him late on Sunday, 6th (about 11.30 p.m.), and could only understand his call (BMP). ..H. W. Anglesey (Tadmor). HAVE heard two stations several times, but cannot get the call signs for static. One operates on 371 metres (810 k.c.), after 2.30 a.m., and the other on 428 metres (700 k.c.), after 11 p.m., when I have heard © children singing. The former is a foreigner, : and I think it may be India. I would like to know what these two are."Puzzled" (Patea). OULD you tell me when the following stations are operating:

SOT, 3TM, SER, 8ML, 3WR, 3E0, 2MK, 2HD, all Australian stations; also the following New Zealand stations: 1XC, Whangarei, 4ZM, Dunedin, 2ZD, Mas-

terton, and 2ZH, WDketahuna.-

T.

S.

(Palmerston North).

" [All except 4ZM are amateurs and operate erratically. 4ZM operates 10 to 11.30 p.m, Monday.-Ed.]} SHOULD be pleased if you could tell me what station was transmitting on the evening of October 6 (about 11.51 p.m.), wave-length 525 metres (570 k.c.)? The music was very plain, but we could only hear "Savoy Hotel" from the announcer. We have a fivevalve commercially-built receiver.-

Mrs.

J. B.

Donas

(Te Horo).

Stations Identified TN the issue of October 4 Mr. A. P. Morrison asks for information concerning a shortwave station heard on ‘approximately 50 metres. I have-heard this stations after 10 p.m. and all announcemenhts are in a foreign language but so far I have been unable to distinguish any call sign. It comes in just above KZRM, but static is gener. ally bad gn this frequency and interferes with listening to some extent. Musie comes over well but the language is hard to recognise. Should Mr. Morrison succeed in getting the call sign I shall be pleased to hear from him. A friend of mine heard Vienna on this wavelength a few weeks back so it is possible that it is the same station reported above. Mr. W. K. McLean also inquires re shortwave station KIO. I heard a station on October 20 on about 26 metres reading out technical data concerning metres. The announcer then said he would give us a little music. After the "Missouri Waltz’ had been | played another announcer announced yather abruptly "KIO signing off,’ and ! the station closed. Strength was R7 J , , and modulation excellent, but the very American accent of the announcer

, made it rather hard to follow-

R.T.

Stanton

(Christchurch) _

a i id ey answer to "Query" (Te Awamutu), "Amateur" (Southland), ‘Another Amateur" (Petone), "A. D. Rodgers" (Newtown), and "Q.R.A.," and with

. reference to station d3HX, Melbourne. 1 have a verification card to hand stating station 83EX is owned and operated by A.W.A., Ltd., and transmits daily from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. (Sunday excepted), from the All Australian Exhibition, Exhibition Building, Melbourne. . The wave-length is 240 metres (1250 k.c.), and the power 500 watts. Reports to Wireless House, Melbourne, will be welecomed from New Zealand listeners.--

H. A.

Smith

(Wellington).

qN reply to "Amateur," I heard 8GX, Melbourne, quite clearly one night

at the end of last month-

G. E.

Hill

(North Auckland ).

, "DX. Topics IN answer to Mr. F. G. MacSherty (Auckland) on the. question of the Japanese station which overlaps 4QG, I would like to state that if I am wrong I am only too pleased to be corrected, but it appears to me that this station is JOAK. The "A" is pronounced very . clearly,, if a trifle drawn out (ie, as "ah"), Myr. MacSherry gives JOAK’s wave-length as 345 metres (870 k.c.), and the "Radio Listeners’ Guide" gives it as 875 metres (800 k.c.), which* prings it very close to 4QG. JOBK,*. 385 metres (780 k.c.); is just on the other side of 4QG, and is for some reason much. easier to tune out, though both stations seem about the same strength. JOHK’s wave-length, according to the Guide, is 396 metres (760 k.c.), while Mr. MacSherry quotes it as 390 metres (770 k.c.). The lower yy

one is hear 4QG.-

E. W.

Anglesey

(Tad-

mor).

M* log for 23 years of stations transmitting on the broadcast, band totals 118. My set is a four-valve one,

employing one stage of R.F., a regenerative detector, and two stages of A.I’. The following comprises my log:-75 American stations, including 1 Hawaiian and 1 Canadian, 19 being yerified, these ranging. in position from the Pacific Coast across to Florida and New Jersey on the Atlantic coast; 7 Japanese, 8 verified; 18 Australian, and 18 New Zealand. Quite a few U.S.A. stations are being heard at fair *phone strength, the best of them being KNX, WENR, KHJ, WLW, KFWB, KOIN, and KGOQ. I have also had two New Zealand stations, namely, 2ZD, Masterton, on 5 watts, and 2ZH, Napier, on 35 watts. Both were verified, the latter saying that my report. was the furthest one north he had received..

C. V.

Blucher

(North Auckland).

Y set is a six-valve factory-built one, and though I have had it only two months, I have logged and verified 86 stations in all (13 N.Z., 15 Australian, 4 Japs., and 4 American), and have also heard several others, but they have been too faint to get their station eall, My aerial is 107ft., including lead-in, and is 32ft. high; the earth is only soldered to water-pipe. The. above may interest "Sonora" (Lyall | Bay), who asked in last week’s issue if-. anyone possessing a set similar to his own could receive American broadcasting. The American stations I have been able to verify (by their call letters) are KFOX, KNX, KGO, and KPO, and ean get them most evenings from 6.30 p.m. on, often till after 9 p.m-

Cockey

(Taranaki).