Operates a Good Station

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 6, 22 August 1930, Page 26

Operates a Good Station

oo! ZLIBB, Auckland HB call-sign ZLABB is well known among New Zealand short-wave listeners and belongs to the amateur transmitting station operated by Mr, R Beazk,, Alexandra Avenue, Auckland. The station has been on the air. since May, 1928, and has operated on three different wave bands. For the first six months it was on the 80-metre band, for the next three on the 30metre band, while since then it has worked on .the.40-metre band. The receiving valves used during the first year proved of insufficient power, so a UX852, 200-watt valve was installed and has been in constant use ever since. The power input is now 275300 watts. Considering that ZLIBB has never been operated on the 20-metre band it has put up a really excellent record. While working on the 30-metre band contacts were established with U.S.A. Australia, : ad Japan. On its present band it has been in communication with 24 countries, and has had over 200 QSO’s with U.S.A., all these contacts being made before 9 pm. The best contacts were made about last Christmas when Belgium, Germany, Siberia, Algiers and Morocco ; were worked, while many reports were received from listeners in England and Holland.