Special Trans-Pacific Broadcasts

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 28, 24 January 1930, Page 7

Special Trans-Pacific Broadcasts

AN exchange contains the following paragraph in reference to a special broadcast service for long-distance listeners. It is predicted that these transmissions will be available in New Zealand and Australia, and though the -present season is not conducive to long‘distance reception, these broadcasts have probably been picked up by New Zealand DX enthusiasts. "Tz response to requests received from Far Wastern radio listeners, an early morning broadcast will be started them in the near future over WGY’s associated short-wave transmitters, according to a representative of the Schenectady station. The entertainment is to be put on daily, except Sunday, between 6 and 7 a.m, Bastern Standard Time, in the WGY studio. Such broadcasts will be heard in Hastern Australia at 9 p.m. the evening of the same day. Station W2XAF, which operates on the wave of 31.48 metres (9530 kilocycles) will carry the: programme. The presentations are to include news items, talks and music. In New Zealand and Australia the transmissions of the General Electric stations are said to be intercepted regularly, and rebroadcast frequently takes place ' over large networks, just as Buropean . programmes often are carried to listeners here by the trafisoceanic shortwave lengths. The hour adopted is said to be one most suitable for widespread reception in Australia and New Zealand."