Log for the Week

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 20, 28 November 1930, Page 30

Log for the Week

MORNING reception continues very poor, but interesting, as a number of new stations have been heard, but not identified. Static has again been bad on the higher waves. RV15, Siberia, 70 Metres.-Good strength each evening, but static still very bad. ZL2XX, Wellington, 62.8 Metres.Testing on Monday and Friday. Good quality and volume. 3ZC, Christchurch, 50 Metres.-Fri-day evening, R8-9 with severe fading. Statice bad. W9XF, Chicago, 49.83 Metres.-Good volume, but noisy background till 7 o’clock each evening. W3XAL, New Jersey, 49.18 Metres.Still excellent at R9 till 6 p.m. each day. Saigon, Indo-China, 40 Metres.Midnight, Saturday, R9, with musical programme. Static terrible. WS8XK, Pittsburgh, 48.86 Metres.Sunday, only R83 at best, about 4 p.m. KIXR, Manila, 48.86 Metres.-Tues-day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, on this wave-length, strength good, but plenty of static. HRB, Honduras, 48.5 Metres.-Sun-day afternoon, 4.45 p.m.,. R38, very poorly modulated. 45.4 Metres (About) .-Hvery morning being best about 6 o’clock. Music and talk; not identified ‘yet. WND, America, 44.4 Metres.-Sun-day, 5 p.m., distorted duplex, at R8. 35.5 Metres (About).-Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday mornings from about 60’clock, R9. All foreign talk, quite a lot of counting and "ATlo."’ On Wednesday he called what sounded like "Allo, Allo. Radio de Lorenzo." ‘ W2XAF, Schenectady, 31.48 Metres.On Sunday at 8.15 a.m. a football match was being described. Strength was about R4, There were two announcers, one was clearly readable, the other indistinct at times. They were heard again at 4 p.m. at R4. Saturday, R2 at

1.30 p.m., increasing to R8 by 4 p.m., when they signed off. Zeesen, Germany, 31.38 Metres.-Re. ception too weak to bother with these mornings. _ WYIXAZ, Springfield, Mass. 313 metres.-Saturday reached R7-8 by 4.30 pm., after which volume decreased. PCJ, Holland, 31.28 metres.-Thurs-day, Friday and Saturday mornings very poor, being weak and gushy. Saturday afternoon they reached R8-9, but static swamped their music and talk, NRH, Costa" Rica, 30.8 metres.Sunday just audible 3.30 p.m., increasing to R4 at 3.45 p.m, closing at 4 p.m. Too gurgly to be readable, except to identify. 31.31 metres (about)-Tuesday, 11.20 p.m. R8 music and foreign talk. Static very bad, 30.1 metres (about)-Friday and Saturday mornings at 6.30 a,m., foreign talk-Dutch, I think. Heard calling Bangkok at one time. R9 each morning. ; KIXR, Manila, 29.97 metres.-Tuned in at 12 p.m. on Saturday (midnight). Musie with "Hullo,’ and counting. Soon after "Radio Manila" was heard, and their regular programme followed. The early part apparently was a test. Volume at first was R9 with two stages of audio, which increased to the same volume at 12.80 a.m. with only one stage of audio, static decreasing.

29.7 metres (about)-Sunday, 4 p.m., American voice at R5 with word tests, 29.7 metres (about)-Thursday and Friday at 6.30 a.m. R9 each morning, calling places and people in broken HBnglish. Sounded like the man at Bangkok. LS8, Buenos Aires, 29 metres.-Sun-day and Saturday, reaching R8-9 by closing time-3 p.m. 28.7 metres (about)-Tuesday, 11.15 p.m., records at R9. A call was heard; sounded like 2MH, only was a little higher than their wavelength. 26.5 metres (about)-Saturday, 11.15 p.m., music and foreign talk at R8-9. Static very bad. G5SW, Chelmsford, 25.53 metres.Tried each morning, but too weak and gushy. a; WSXK, Pittsburgh, 25.25 metres- | Heard every morning at about R2-3. Does not increase above this, and is readable only at times. Wednesday was an exception, when they were R5 at 7.30 a.m, ; GBS, Rugby, 24.6 metres.-Friday,. 7.30 am. Duplex at R7 £TransAtlantic telephone service. FTN, Paris, 24.46 metres.-Nearly every morning at good strength on duplex. KIXR, Manila, 24.4 metres (about) — Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. Usually better than on 48.8 metres except that FTN often interferes, being almost on top and, if anything, a little stronger in volume. 23.8 metres (about)-Always heard the same time as PIN, weaker as a rule. 20.4 metres (about)-Tuesday, 7.30 a.m., reading or talking in BHnglish. R4, but too gushy to be readable except odd words.