A Comprehensive Log

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 21, 6 December 1929, Page 32

A Comprehensive Log

| Reception for One: Day’ HE following is my log of stations received on a short-wave three-valve receiver for Wednesday, November 27 :-~ Station 5SW at 7.15 p.m. was:relaying 2L0’s programme of records. * "Stréngth R7-8. The German station at Zeesen, on music, was R7. A heavy background was bad'on both stations. At 9 am... an American station, on 23 metres, talking to London, came through- -at RT very clearly. yooh oY At 3.55 p.m. W2XAF Schenectady. wag heard on R.K.6 programme, and later on organ music from a theatre in Albany, New York. Strength R7-8, atmospherics bad. They closed down at 12 p.m, B.S.T, (5 p.m..N.Z:T.). KDKA was very weg, so did not trouble about it. At 6 preci. WENR and W9XF, Chicago, came in at R4, By. 7 p.m. was R7-8. At-7:50 p.m. came in much clearer till closing down at 8 ‘p.m. ; Lote At 8.5 p.m. KZRM Radio, Manila, was R7,: reception clear on, records, Later was R8 till closing down at 9 p.m. | Station VK2ME was testing with GBX. Later changed to Morse signals,. KZRM rebroadcast Java at 840 p.m. Picked up PLE at 8.40 p.m:, R8. Strength (Concluded on page 81.) ES A OT

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(Concluded from page 32. clear on records, and ‘later a talk in Dutch came through (strong generator hum). PLF was also picked up on 15 metres at 8.50 p.m. Recor ls and talks in Dutch heard at R§8, till 9.5 p.m., when . I went over to the '80-metre band, and picked up ZL2AX, Palmerston North, on records, at a good T20, At 10 p.m. Manila relayed the Philippine Constabulary Band. ‘This came through at .R9, good speaker strength, At 11 p.m. W2XAF was transmitting records for Australia and New Zealand. Strength R9. Closed down at 12 p.m. Bangkok, Siam, at 12.15 a.m. was picked up on 29’ metres, at R6, later R7 on records. At 12.30 a.m. SSW radiated the London lunch programme till 1 a.m, This came over at’R9 very clearly,

L.

Saunders

(Wellington).