'Short-Wave Topics

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 18, 14 November 1930, Page 32

'Short-Wave Topics

Broadcast of King’s Speech. HE opening speech of his Majesty the King of the Indian Round Table Gonference on Wednesday, November 12, will be broadcast by G5SW. An announcement was heard from W3XAL during the week that the national network of the U.S.A. stations were going to broadcast the speech, which is timed to commence at 11.58 p.m., N.Z,. summer time. W3XAL works on 49.18 metres, and if conditions here are not suitable for GSSW direct, should be a reliable stand-by. Java Short-Wavers. ‘TAVA has five main short-wave stations in use, One is used for duplex telephone service with Holland; one for Berlin,, Germany; one to Saigon, IndioChina; the fourth for broadcasting, and the fifth for the new service to Australia, The most important transmitters are: PLW, 36.92 metres; PLR, 28.2 metres; PLF, 16.8 metres; PMO, 16.53 metres; PLB, 15.93 metres; and PMB, 14.55 metres. Hvery Wednesday they broadcast from PLE. at 1.40 a.m. to 3.40 a.m. Every day, except Sundays and holidays, gramophone music is played to regulate the transmitters (adjustments of the transmitters and receivers) from

11.40 pm. to 1240 am. (AH times given are N.Z, summer time.) New 58-Metre Station. NEW station is now operating on 58 metres in the vicinity of Prague, and is managed by the Czecho-Slovak Government. The hours for New Zealand listeners to tune-in are 7.30 a.m. to 9,30 a.m. every Wednesday and Saturday. A Stranger on 45 Metres. A STATION has been heard on about 45 metres, volume being R8-9, at 6 am., slowly decreasing to just audible by 7.80 am. Both men and women announcers have been heard. Music is high class, all talk in foreign, PCJ’s Revised Schedule. J, Bindhoven, Holland. Wave, 31.28 metres; power, 25 kilowatts. Times of transmission (N.Z. summertime): Thursday, 4 a.m. till 8 am; Friday, 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., 10 a.m. to 11 am.; 12 noon to 8 p.m., and fortnightly 11 a.m. to noon; Saturday, 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., 12 noon to 6 p.m.