American Short-Wavers

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 15, 24 October 1930, Page 8

American Short--Wavers

-- Interesting Information| HE General Blectric Company, Schenectady, N.Y., states that the clubhouse erected for members of the G.H. Company’s staff includes among its facilities a large gymnasium, with baleony and projection room for motion pictures, an exercise room for wrestling and boxing, an . electrically-. equipped kitchen, twelve bowling alleys, locker and shower-room for -women. Similar facilities are available for the men, billiard-room, lounge-room with fireplace, card-room, ten-range shooting gallery, and finally a roof garden overlooking Mohawk River. The General Blectric Athletic Association has a membership of 4500. Reception of W2XAF strong enough for loudspeaker reproduction is reported from Yokohama, Japan, jn a letter by a young Japanese DX hunter, Seiichi Nozaki. Mr. Nozaki sai" in his report to the G.E. Company: "Our country, Japan, has been making great progress in radio during these five years, But we have no short wave radio station, and there are many people in Japan who want to hear America by radio." He gets up at 5.30

a.m., Japan standard time, to get jazz music from America. The G.E. Company remarked in their letter that "those who look to their radio receiving sets for entertainment only can appreciate the value of radio in the lives of those far remote from daily papers. From’ time to time WGY, the Schenectady station, which operates two short-wave stations, W2XAF and W2XAD, receives requests particularly.from residents of South American countries, to include certain stocks in the list of daily quotations. Many of these requests come from mining engineers stationed at isolated points,. who, through radio, are kept in daily touch with news.and with financial operations, thousands of miles away. Peter Kouros, a young Greek living at Amalia, Greece, stated that he gets the signals of W2XAF often, in spite of the early hour, namely, from 4 to 5 a.m. _