Short-wave Notes

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 12, 3 October 1930, Page 29

Short-wave Notes

VORZ Vienna Off the Air. > "THE Vienna short-wave transmitter which up till recently has_ relayed several times weekly the studio programmes on 25 and 49 metres, has suspended its-broadeasts indefinitely. OK1MPT, Radio Elektra Mars. At™ Hloubetin, a small town some three miles east of Prague in the direction of Brno, the Czecho-Slovak Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs has installed an ex- _ perimental short-wave station. Broadeasts of gramophone records and of information of interest to amateur wireless transmitters, are made on 58 metres between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., New Zealand time, every Wednesday and Saturday. All announcements are given out in the Ozech, German, French, and English Janguages. ‘The official call-sign OK1- . MPT, but during broadcasts at intervals thé-name of the station is mentioned; it is Radio Elektra Mars. High-Power Short-Wave Transmitter for Spain. NEW plans have now been formulated for the reorganisation of the Span--ish broadcasting system. The latest scheme provides for a 30-kilowatt transmitter at some spot approximately in the middle of that country, four 15-kilowatt stations at Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, and Vigo, and a high-power short-wave transmitter to relay the capital programmes: : PK38AN Sourabaya, Java. THE Sourabaya Amateur Radio Society would greatly appreciate reports from listeners in regard to reception of their short-wave transmitter, 8AN, on a wayelength of 49.7 metres. They request that listeners forward their reports to the secretary, Mr. H. Budding, jun., Balistraat 20, Sourabaya. 3AN as a rule, starts too late for the average listener. The writer heard them recently commence about midnight with several records. At 12.10 a.m. a clock chimed, and struck eight. This was followed by the Dutch National Anthem, and then talk in this language. Volume was R9. They sometimes commence one hour earlier. ,