Short-Wave News

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 41, 24 April 1930, Page 31

Short-Wave News

val , Rome Testing on 25.4 Meires. R. DURRANT (Wellington) reports M hearing the new Italian short-wave station testing early on Sunday morning, April 18. Records, counting, "Rome testing on 25.4 metres," and a call which Mr. Durrant took to be 3A0O, but was not certain of on account of the foreign accent of the speaker, were heard. The test; which concluded at 1.48 a.m., was received very clearly, at good volume Reception of Oxford and Cambridge my Boat Race, M®. A. B. EKENSTEEHN = (Christ‘church) had a little more luck than the writer with the boat race. He found 5SW gushy at R4-5, with a few odd . words intelligible, and quite a lot of rcheering. The. same correspondent heard give their power as 14 kilowatts radiated from the aerial. Short-wave Station at Prague. THE short-wave experimental station at Prague (Czecho-Slovakia) is now broadeasting. twice weekly on. a wavelength of 58 metres. The transmissions take place. every Wednesday and Saturday from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m,, N.Z. time. Announcements are generally made in Czech, German, French, and English. The station’s call sign, OKIMP, is transmitted in slow Morse after the announcement. Another Short-wave Station near Rome, A NEW short-wave broadcasting ‘sta- ‘% tion about nineteen miles from Rome will be working shortly, The wavelength. will be about 80 metres, with a poer of 12 kilowatts, WSXAU Philadelphia, TATION W8XAU, the second short2 wave rebroadcasting station of the Columbia broadcasting system in Ameriea, is now on the air. The short-wave unit is associated with WCAU, in Philadelphia. W8XAU will broadcast on two wavelengths, 31.2 and 49.5 metres, VRY, British Guiana. yRy is the call-sign of the Post Office Department, engineering branch, Georgetown, British Guiana. ‘Lhis station works on 48.86 metres, between 11.30 am. and 1.30 p.m, on Wednesdays and Sundays. PCJ’S Wavelength, AN Hnglish radio journal reports that "In view of interference between PCJ Eindhoven, Holland, and the Zeesen short-wave tratismissions, the Dutch station has reduced its wavelength to 31.20 metres." POJ still announce their wavelength as 31.4 metres. Short Waves from Vienna. VV OR2, Vienna, will probably transmit the Vienna studio broadcasts regujarly on both 24.7 and 49.4 metres, in the near future.