THE D.X. CLUB Views and News.

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 33, 28 February 1930, Page 10

THE D.X. CLUB Views and News.

Identification Wanted

"RPE about 10 p.m. on February 12 I picked up a station operating on 2t0 metres (1400 k.c.). Music came in # fair volume, but static was very bad fhat evening and prevented me from

hearing the call-sign.-

R. G.

Marsh

ARotorua}

any listener tell me what Cet station I picked up on ed 11 from 7.45 p.m, till about 5 p.m., on about 275 metres (1090 The call WTIC, Hartford, Confection was given, and it was stated the programme was their fifth eonecert. As this station listed as 500 metres, and as stations WBB (or WBW), Boston, Massachussetts, and WB (?), Springfield, Massa¢hussetts, were mentioned, I supposed it fas a relay or a rebroadcast. Statin ‘was rather bad, and some parts of the announcements were missed. The transwnission was one degree below KNX,

which was also received well-

J.

Burt

¢Kohu Kohu).

Line trequency of WiiO'has recent. ty been changed. This station now operates on 283 metres (1060 k.c.).Ox Tuesday, 18th, on 25.5 metres, from 11 p.m. till 11.20, a ladies’ choir was heard, but in the middle of the next item (a band) transmission sed. One announcement only, and a foreign tongue. The same station on the air on the 19th at midwae Can any of your readers place bim? The language sounded similar #e UOR2, Vienna, but signals were

gather "bubbly.’’

H. R.

Hughes

Greenhithe

aus searching for stations tonight (February 18), at 8.42 p.m., I Tieard the finish of "Forty-seven headed Sailors" at about 2 degrees above Palmerston North (2ZF), which operates on a wavelength of 285.5 metres (1050 k.c.). The station was yvather weak (R4) and static was bad. "he item I recognised may have been @ gramophone record. Though I listened on this frequency for about an hour, ¢ could not hear anything further.-L. Angelini (Pahiatua). I NOTICED in your issue of February 14 that no mention was made in the DX columns of anyone hearing 6AG,

Perth, on February 7, testing on telephony with another station on about 41 metres. Could any reader give me the latter station’s call, as I was unable to copy owing to heavy local morse, This station closed at 5.50 a.m. by say-

ing "good-night" to 6AG.-

L.

Jackson

(Wellington).

(SouLD any listener give particulars of an amateur station which was on the air on February 18. Wavelength about 277 metres (1080 k.c.). Band music was heard at 11 p.m. Music was clear, though speech was distorted. Also a station on the air at 8.45 p.m. on February 14. Wavelength about 250 metres (1200 k.c.). Bagpipe music was heard on tuning-in, and after a final item the station closed down. Music came through with good volume on the loudspeaker. Another station was on the air on February 13 about 11 p.m. on 260 metres approx. (1150 k.c.).

Music was just audible-

O. S.

Mc

Conachie

(Gore).

OULD any listener identify a station operating on 725 k.c. (4138 metres) which transmits after 2YA has closed down. I have heard it twice lately at

approximately 12.30 p.m-

J. A.

Stewart

(Southland).

Stations Identified

HE station that "Kauspanka" heard was KFWB, Hollywood, operated by Warner Bros. Wavelength 316 metres (950 k.c.), power, 1 kw. With regard to station 4ZP, this station is owned and operated by Parson’s Radio Supplies, 155 Lazard Street, North Invercargill. Transmission times: Monday and Tuesday, 7-10 p.m. ; Friday, T11 p.m.; Sunday, +6 p.m. Wavelength, 250 metres (1160 k.c.). There is no 4Z1 in Invercargill. To-night I picked

up WTAM at good speaker strength. In the "All About the All-Electric" this station is marked as not having been heard in New Zealand. Screen Grid Three (Nelson). [Mr. A. Edgecombe has also sent particulars re 4ZP, Invereargill. These are contained in the letter given above.-Ed.]

DX Topics

OULD you please supply me with the postal address of WHAR, Cleveland, Ohio, giving frequency as 1070 kilocycles (280 metres) as I picked up this station on February 17, and would like to write for Could you also tell me what time it would-be in Ohio when it was 8 p.m. in New Zealand. I notice in the "All-Electric" that this station had, at the time of printing, not been reported as heard in New

Tealand ~

L. D.

Hamlyn

(Te Aroha

West).

The address you give above will no doubt be sufficient. When it is 8 p.m. in New Zealand it is approximately 2.30 am. the same day in Ohio.-Ed. FOR three night preceding February 18, I received the American station to which "Kauspauka" referred in this week’s "Radio Record." The callsign I took to be WCHI or WTAT, Chicago. To date I have logged 104 stations, 19 of which I have as yet been. unable to verify. I have noticed that "Kauspauka" has logged several stations which I have never heard. Would this be due to the difference in our localities? [Probably not, as you both seem able to secure excellent American reception. "Kauspauka" may have received these stations when conditions were exceptionally good for a short period, and when you were not listening-in.-EKd. ] Would "Kauspauka" give me per medium of these columns particulars of his set, aerial, earth, etc? My set is a seven-valve allelectric factory-built receiver, with an aerial about 40ft. high and 100ft. long (including lead-in). The earth consists of a number of pipes of various lengths, driven into the ground about 1ft. apart. The station about which "Kauspanka" was inquiring may have been KFWB, Hollywood, but I receive this station on about 315 metres (950 k.e.). Station 8YA often relays American. stations just before 8 p.m., so it may have been one of these transmissions that "Kauspanka" heard. Two or three nights ago I heard a station on 8YA’s wavelength, which I was unable to find elsewhere on the dial. This was just before 8 p.m., so I concluded

SYA was relaying an American.-

W. R.

Dakers

(Morrinsville).

Wwe received stations KGU, WEAR and KGO on February 17. WHAR was reported as not heard in New Zealand, so I wonder if any other listener had heard it or KGU. I have also

heard WENR and WBBM at very, good strength. Has any listener WHJK? I also receive this station on *. good volume. I have a list of four Japanese, 15 Australian, 10 American and 11 New Zealand, making a total of 40 stations. I have listed 10 of these ia

in the last two weeks.-

Ivan

Hansen

(Manaia).

{Mr. S. Bllis, Taranaki, has the largest list of verified stations, numbering 70 odd, while ‘"Kauspanka," Hawke’s Bay, has the largest log (102) of stations identified but not verified. -Ed] , SEVERAL correspondents have recently mentioned a station, KGM, Los Angeles, which they take to be a new station. It is not by any means a new one; the call-sign is KTM ang the location Los Angeles. Up ti about .twelve months ago it was IKNRG, Santo Monica, but since the eall-sign has been changed the location is always given as Los Angeles. In your issue of February 14, Westrad (Woolston) wishes to know the best time of year for receiving Americans. The best time here is during the spring and summer, from about QOctober until March. Very little can be heard from them during the winter. I picked up WTAM, Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday, February 17, one of the strongest Americans I have heard. The one I consider to be my best reception is WLBW, Oil City, Penn., on a power of 500 watts; this station has been verified. Has any other listener heard him. My set is a four-valve Browning- . Drake, but on D.X. work I use three 4, yalves and headphones, as I find I get y much better results in this way. My log totals 105 stations, 62 American, one Canadian, five Japs, 18 Australian,

and 19 New Zealand.-

Geo. R.

Munro

(Auckland).

I HAVH just finished reading the D.X. pages of a recent "Radio Record," and would like to know the position regarding the publication of reception of the present or any of the future international short-wave tests conducted through VK2MB, in so far as the ordinary listener is concerned. Regarding the test last week between W2XAF and VK2M®, when the possibiilty of twoway communication between Schenectady and Dunedin was being arranged. Mr. Wagner, of the Publicity Department of the General Hlectriec Co., made a special return to the "mike" in order to impressVK2M}B with the necessity of keeping pending events as quiet as possible, and to ask 2YA also to bey eautious. Now, Mr. Editor, would I be violating the terms of my license by sending reports on these tests to the "Record", or is the secrecy asked

for unnecessary 2

N. R. Y.

Jakeman

(Huntly).

‘THESE tests are being conducted with a view to ascertaining the possibility of 'a satisfactory programme exchange service, Officials concerned are probably urging secrecy merely to preyent short-wave listeners tuning in to the tests and thus spoiling results by excessive oscillation.

— [ NOTICH that both Mr. Sellens and Mr. Morrison report hearing sta,#tion WOO on shori-waves, conducting word tests with G2GN (s.s, Olympic). I have a call list which gives. particulars of WOO as follows :-Wave-length, 509 metres (590 ke.); name of station, Wanamaker; situxtion, Philadelphia. Probably this station is now running a short-wave transmitter. I also heard this station on that particular wave-léngth, and the closing down announcement did not give any indication of’ situation or frequency-just "WOO a

cOSing aown now.

H. W.

Young

(North Auckland).