STATIONS HEARD DURING WEEK ENDED MAY 3

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 43, 9 May 1930, Page 31

STATIONS HEARD DURING WEEK ENDED MAY 3

RA97, Siberia, 70. metres: Hach evening. W38XAL, New Jersey, 49.18 metres : Sunday. ZL4ZM, Dunedin, 49 metres: Sun., Mon., Tues. and Wed. W2XAF, Schenectady, 31.4 metres: Sunday and Saturday. ZHESEN, Germany, 31.88 metres: Each morning. POJ, Holland, 31:28 metres: Friday and Saturday, NRH, Costa Rica, 30.5 metres: Sunday and Saturday. VK2MBE, Sydney, 28.5 metres: Twice daily. GBX, England, 27.5 metres: Twice daily. KIXR, Manila, 26:3 metres: Tues., Wed., Thur. and Friday. CJRX, Winnipeg, 25.6 metres: Sunday. G5SW, England, -25.58 metres: Hach morning except Monday. WS8XK, Pittsburge, 25.4 metres: Sunday. W6XN, California, 23.35 metres: Sun., Tues., Fri. and Sat. W2XAD, Schenectady, 19.56 metres: ‘Sunday and Saturday. PTITITTTTTTTTTTT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT CETTET ECE TCE C CETTE Ee een

Short-wave Topics

(Concluded from page 81.) ‘On about 24.5 metres at 6.50 p.m. a Frenchman was duplex‘at R4.° The other station could not. be located. KIXR was R4 at 7.45°p.m., and R8-9 from 9.30 -p.m. ZL4ZM was just audible at 8 p.m. RAOQ7 at 10 pm. was RO, with medium static. Thursday, May 1. Ne a. 6 metres: Talk just audible at 6 Zeesen, with orchestral music, was T8.9 at 6.15 a.m. There was slight static. 5SW at 6.10 a.m. with talk was R6-7, being about 75 per cent. readable. Their musical programme commenced at 6.15 a.m. at slightly better strength and clarity. GBX at a.m. was R7, while 2ME was not readable. Music was again just audible on about 31. 6metres at 6.30 a.m. 2ME R9, and GBX R77, at 6.45 p.m. KIXR was R8 at 9.45 m. RAQ7, at R7, was. almost swamped by static. Friday May 2 T 5.27 5SW. was tuned in to their "tuning whistle." Big Ben at 5.30 was loud and clear. The first talk was about France. "The second, from 6 a.m., was "Problems of Industry. " A drama, "Robin Hood," was broadcast from 6.30 a.m, Strength was R8, talk being clear and steady. . Zeesen at 5 .45 a.m. was R9, with choral musie, which was very fine. 2ME and GBX were both R7 with plenty of static. at 5.45 a.m, The 41.6-metre stranger was R3 at 6 a.m. with foreign talk. PCJ commenced at 5.80 a.m.. at barely R9, with slight ‘ding and _ static. Volume remained avout the seme * through the transmission till 2M, R9, and ‘GBX R8, were very clear at 6.30 p.m. W6XN at 6.30 p.m. were R8, decreasing to R6 by 7 p.m. KIXR were only R4 at 10 p.m. RA97, with an orchestra, at 10.15 p.m., were R8-9. Static, as usual, was bad. Saturday, May 3. FoR two hours PCJ were heard, being R8-9 at 5.30, to. RT when signing off at 7.38. am. "Philips Short-Wave Syncopators" entertained for a time; they are to be on again next 5SW were R8 from 5.30 a.m., with slight rapid fading. Talk was 100 per cent.. but with difficulty. -This was better by 7.30 am. Zeesen was very good, except for static, at R9. WGXN was It2-8 from 5.45 a.m, to 6.380 a.m., but were too gushy to be clearly GBX, R6, and 2M at R9, were on duplex at 6 a.m. The 41. 6-metre station was R2 at 6a.m. PCJ was in better form than recently for a Saturday afternoon, being R4 at 1.30 p.m.. slowly increasing to R9 by 5.15 p.m. ‘During the. transmission they relayed an early Dutch morning farmyard scene. The fowls could be heard quite well, also roosters crowing. A special feature for next week will be a call to every listener in Australia New Zealand who has sent in @ report during the past few months. |

The last item was the "Lonely. Troubadour," after which Mr. H. Startz, the announcer, said: ‘‘We have been on the air for six hours, and so the ‘Lonely Tyoubadour’ ‘is now signing off-Good morning, everybody." W2XAF at 1.80 p.m. were gushy at R4, increasing to R8 by 3 p.m. After an hour’s dance music from the Hotel StRegis, till 3.30 p.m., they relayed a Western League team baseball game from De Moine, lowa, between De Moine and Wichata. This it appears was something new, playing baseball by artificial light. They had six towers with lamps giving, a candle-power of °50 million candlepower. It was estimated that 12,000 people were present. NRH was not readable, being R1i-2 at 3 pm. W2XAD was R8 at 1.30 p.m., but rapidly went off in volume, being only just audiblé at 3 pm. GBX and 2M started duplex at about 5 p.m. RAQ7 at 1 p.m. was R9 with slight static. At 11 p-m., on about 31 metres, speech could be heard at R5, but modulation was too rought to be readable. There was not any sign of KIXR at 10 p.m.