Short-Wave News From An American Amateur

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 50, 27 June 1930, Page 40

Short-Wave News From An American Amateur

jt may interest New Zealand shortwave listeners to know that station G2NM, owned by. Gerald Marcuse (who was one of the pioneers in shortwave broadcasting), will shortly be transmitting programmes on a wave length of 21 metres. -G2NM will be on the air on Sundays from 18.30 until 20.00, Greenwich mean time, according to information I have just received from England, and will also transmit at other times. Station PHI, Huizen, Holland, is now on daily (excepting Tuesday and Sunday) from 13.00 until 16.00, G.M.T., on 16.88 metres.

The address of PHI is N. V. Philips, Omroep, Holland-Indie, Keizersgracht, 722, Amsterdam, Holland. The address of the Zeesen, Germany, station on 31.88 metres, is: Reichspostzentralamt, Telegraphentechniches Reichsamt, 11-15 Shoneberger Strasse, Berlin, Tempelhof, Germany. Short-wave reception has been very poor here since April.5, European stations on all wavelengths being very poor since that date. This month has always been one of the best for Kuropean stations, but has been unusually poor this year, as I have had 5SW only four times at loudspeaker volume

durirg April of this year. I have had Zeesen only five times at loudspeaker strength during March. As this station is never on after: 6.30 p.m. our time, I seldom hear it well because the Huropeans around 31 metres do not attain loudspeaker strength -before 6 p.m. at any time of the year. This station is louder than PCJ here, but POJ transmits special programmes for the American Continent at a time which is favourable for best reception here. KZRM, on 26.8 metres, is very poor here. VK2MBE is more consistently received than any Huropean short-wave

Station, although the distance is more than twice as great. The 44 metre U.S. ’phone station reported by so many readers of the "Record" is WND, which is one of the trans-Atlantic ’phones in the New YorkLondon ’phone circuit. The U.S. station referred to by the Gisborne reader in the "DX Club" column as WGAM, Cleveland, Ohio, was undoubtedly WTAM, Cleveland, on 1070 k.c. or 280.2 metres. He stated that the station he heard was on 1075 k.c. There is no station operating here on 1075 k.e. ‘as the channels here are spaced 10 k.e. apart. The 1070 k.c, channel is used by W'TAM and the next channel is 1080 k.e. The station referred to by Mr. Morrison (in the. March 21 issue of the "Radio Record") near PCJ’S W.L., could possibly be NRH, of Heredia, Costa Rica. He mentions hearing donations, acknowledged. NRH has beén doing this and the time of day fits in with NRH’s transmissions. If he heard this station he has probably made a world's record for DX, as this station uses only 74 watts power. The Mexican station he referred to might be XC51, San Lazaro, Mexico, as this station is ineluded in a list I have, but I have no record of receiving it. I have heard.NRH at R8 to R9 many times at a distance of 2000 miles. The 26 metre station KAIXR referred to by Mr. Evans was the regular 26 metre short-wave transmitter of KZRM at Manila. : The present prefix of the

heard the new Italian | short-wave transmitter, I83RO, on 25.4 metres,’ testing with gramophone records with volume better than G5SW. These tests have been between 13.00 and 15.00 G.M.T. ; The address of I3RO is Ente Italiano Audizioni Radio Foniche, Rome, Italy. The sets I use for SW reception are a ‘4d-valve screer-grid set with a tuned H.F. stage and a 7-valve double detection (super heterodyne) receiver. I am very keen on short-wave reception and I also like to correspond. with short-wave listeners. I. would be pleased to hear’ from any New Zea landers.-F red Waster, 3353 Southside Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. Philippine. Islands is KA. I |