News and Views of the D.X. CLUB

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 20, 28 November 1930, Page 12

News and Views of the D.X. CLUB

Answers to Correspondents 6 Y.Z.’ (Tirharu).-2ZL, Hawke’s * Bay North, and 2ZR, Wanganui. J.C. (New Plymouth).-A series of articles on "How to Break into Transmitting’ will be published shortly in these pages.

Addresses and Addresses Wanted Wout RJR. (P.N.) and "Kia Ora" (Frankton) please send names and addresses? J.C. (New Plymouth) would like the addresses of ZL2CK, 1CJ, and 1CH, also of FPZA, Saigon, and FIN, Paris. D.N.A. (Timaru).-KTBS, Tri-State Broadcasting Coy., Shreveport, Louisiana.

Identification Wanted STATION 1 degree above 1YA’s new frequency every night at good speaker strength. The music comes through very clearly, but the speaking is very weak. Also a Japanese 4 a desree helow 40G. and another Japanese

1 degree below 2BL.-

Amuri

(In-

vercargill )

GTATION on approximately 48 metres on November 9, at 8.10 p.m., broadcasting gramophone records. Also one on 55 metres at 8.30 p.m. Both were R9 and sounded like New Zealand sta-

tions:

U.

X.

(Te Kuiti). —

Station Identified "QGPARKS" (Christchurch) heard KWKH, Shreveport. Louisiana. "Yankee" (N.P.). There is no station in Chicago with call WMBR. but there is one in Tampa, Florida, on 1210 ke. (248 metres). There is also a station WNBR on 1130 ke. (265 metres) at Memphis, Tennessee. A few weeks ago Y heard my name, together with that of a Mr. Bllis broadeast from station KFKB, thanking us for our reports. It is interesting to note that in America quite a number of stations broadcast on identical frequencies. For example,

on 1200 ke. there are 34, on 1210 ke, 32, and on 1500 ke, there are 35. Chicago has 41 stations and New York 46. There are 51 Canadians and only three

operate above 1000 k.c.-

J.T.

S.

(Na-

pier).

X YZ. (Timaru): You heard KPQ J.M.J. (Masterton) : American on 2HD is KGFS. DX. (Dunedin): The only Melbourne station near 1280 ke. (234 metres), I know of is 8TR, Gippsland Broadcasting Service of Trafalgar, Ltd., Trafalgar, Te Ka (Te Kauwhata) : Power of KTM is 500 watts. —

Yankee

(New Plymouth.)

J.T.S (Napier): There is only one KFI, and what you heard was another station rebroadcasting their programme. I have often heard this from severa! American stations, and found that they vere rebroadeasting programmes. --

D.N.

A.

(Timaru. )

"BuUNG" (Waikato): I have logged between 25 and 30 Americans on a5 valve, 3 s.g. set. The aerial is below the traffic bridge, Hamilton.

R.

D.

(Hamilton).

{Names of commercial receivers must not be used as nom-de-plumes,-Ed.]

DX Topics A Correction. TATION 2Z0, Palmerston North, is owned by Mr. J. VY. Kyle, and not by Mr. J. V. Ingle, as announced in last week’s D.X. notes. FZR, Saigon has been heard at excellent volume, testing on telephony with FTN, Paris. Is this the same station as Radio Saigon?-~

J.

C.

(New Plymouth.)

Some New Siations. N°: R.JI.R (P.N.), I have not written to LTD, Durban yet, as I would like to bear a more definite programme. I have sent letters to Rumania and Calcutta, however. G. 0, Holmes (Masterton): I have heard KGW on frequency 620 ke. (483 metres). The only station I have heard on 508 metres (590 ke. is a Canadian at Toronto. I heard hin twice about three, months ago. On one occasion he announced, "From _ the Musical Festival, Toronto," and also remarked that it had been a wonderful success. I was unable to get his call. { heard KSTP, St. Paul, Minnesota, fairly well on November 1, and logged KUT, Austin, Texas, on the 15th, on 1185 ke. (253 metres). By the way. "Squeak" correctly placed JOAK and JOHK recently. Another enthusiast’ quoted them wrongly. Jaka (Weilington) evidently thinks that I. recently identified a station he was inquiring after in issue November 7. This was station 2Z0, and I mentioned it merely to correct a report of his appearing in another column, claiming to have heard

2ZA, Palmerston North.-

J.P.

C.

(P.N.).

Some Well-known Short-wavers. NDER date October 24, Mr. F. Easter, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., in

a letter to Mr. R. L. Jones, Wellington, says: PCK, Holland, is good now yin the mornings (U.S.A. time); PHI as closed down for some reason. PIM af St. Assise, France, is heard every ay excepting Sunday (U.S.A. time) working LSG in Buenos Aires on the phone circuit. LSG is on 15.2 metres and FTM on 15.5 metres. UZA, at Drummondville, Quebec, Canada, has been heard working a new ship on phone, the "Duchess of York." UZA was on 23 metres. LSH was heard every night except Sunday broadcasting musie from 8 to 10 p.m. LSH is on 28.9 metres, and can be heard between 01.00 to 03.00 G.M.T. VRY, at Georgestown, British Guinea, is very good on Wednesday and Sunday (U.S.A. time) evenings. 8RO, in Rome, on 25.4 metres, came in ai good volume. XDA, in Mexico broadcasts a news report and musi session daily, except Sunday, on a wave-length of 20.5 metres, between 19.30 and 20.30 G.M.T. "This station comes in with a terrific ‘wallop, " states Mr. Waster, "and nearly upsets my loudspeaker." The news reports are given in both English and Spanish,’ the address being "The ‘Trens News Agency, Colon Street 48, Mexico City, Mexico. The address of LSH is Transradio Internacional, San Martin 829, Buenos Aires, Argentine. The announcements are made in Spanish only. Mr. Haster reports hearing ZLW, Wellington, N.Z., testing with Sydney and London. He noticed the "colonial accent" of the Wellington speakers, which is quite distinguishable from the overseas speakers. W2XAF has stepped its power up a lot lately, and Ys considerably more _ strength. DIRX, of James Richardson’s Sons utd. in Winnipeg, Canada, has been discontinued, and they are now oper-

ating VE9CL in its place, the wavelength being 48.5 metres. Mr. Haster finally removes all doubts about W1XAZ. This station call is correct, and it is not W1IXAD; the Z is pronounced as ZER, not ZED, as in N.Z. This station is on 31.85 metres, and operated by the Westinghouse Company at Springfield, Massachusetts, and relays from WBZ and WBZA. Concluding, Mr. Easter reported the temperature at Cincinnati as 22 above zero, A Well-known American. I HAVE received a verification card from KPO. San Francisco. The address is: Hale Bros. and "The Chronicle," San Francisco, California. They welcome reports from New Zealand ,and trust that conditions for long-distance reception will soon be favourable again. No particulars of

station given;

Bob

Wellington

Short-wave News from America. "THD following is an extract from a letter received from Mr. Fred Waster, 3353 Southside Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.:-"This summer has been the poorest for short-wave reception in three years. The most dependable short-wave station (broadcast) in Europe received here has been G5SW. W2XAF has greatly increased their power, and now blanket. Zeesen and PCJ out. W2XAF can be heard at fair loudspeaker strength on the output of a detector preceded by one stage h.f. amplification now. The skip effect is noted on W2XAF here. at around 9 p.m. with greatly diminishing signal strength. This at a distance of approximately 650 miles from the transmitter. VRY, in Georgetown, British Guiana, is heard very good at times here, but the wave-length used, coupled with the hours of their

broadcasts, do not admit of reception in New Zealand. HRB is very good at times, but distortion is often prevalent in their signals. March was the best month of the year for allround good short-wave reception here. During the early part of April reception fell off, and continued very poor until recently. I heard the Pava phones PLE and PLE only in March and April this year: Station HEF, in Bogotas, Columbias, South America, has been in operation only a short while. This station is using a wavelength of 39.7 metres. The address is Laboratorio, Radio-Electro, Apartado 817, Bogotas, Columbias, South Ameri-

ca. The new station at Saigon, IndoChina, on 49 metres, is reported at good strength on the West Coast, but { have not heard it this far east yet."