Short-wave News

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 23, 19 December 1930, Page 11

Short-wave News

3R0, Rome, Changes Wavelength. [THE short-wave station of Prato Smeraldo, after a short period of transmission on 25.4 metres, returned on October 28 to the 80-metre wavelength. The 25.4 metre transmissions have been. well received in distant countries, but listeners to the station in countries less remote have complained that they have been deprived of the programmes to which they have grown accustomed. The H.1.A.R. have, therefore, decided to return to the higher wavelength. Broadcasts for the Far North. STATION KDKA, Pittsburgh, has begun its eighth series of annual broadeasts for the benefit of mounted police and traders in the north-west territory of Canada, They are also intended for the missionaries among the Eskimos, including a station within 104 degrees of the Pole, where they report excellent reception. The transmissions begin. at. about 11 p.m. and include music, talks and personal messages to listeners. These special broadeasts are ‘heard:in New Zealand from about 4 p.m. ‘on Sunday, from the 48.86 metre transmitter of KDKA. More News from NRH. A NOTHER. letter has recently been "" yeceived from the owner-operator of little NRH, Costa Rica. Referring to a book he is writing about his station he says :- "The New Zealand chapter will be a fine addition, as many fans from there have sent me about 20 view folders with literature, several newspaper cuttings, postcards, maps, and their good letters, Thus I will have to revise my chapter and make it up to date. It really has been an extraordinary work to have a feeble 74 watts reach you down there, even if but a whisper. "When. the season changes I will advise you for a special test programme, which I will work so that you can hear it by night time, now that I know where to stand in your reception." A photograph was also received of the "Short-wave" section of the "Radio Record" dated May 238, which contained a report of reception from NRH. This photo is to appear in the book "Me and Little NRH,"’ by Amando Cespedes Marin,

Reception During the Week. FARLY morning reception is still bad with the old favourites, but is still interesting, as other stations are to be heard. Wither W9XF or another on the same wavelength, 49.83 metres, is just audible for a while about 6 am, A foreigner on about 46 metres has been heard _ several times; Moscow, on about 45.4 metres, is quite good, while on the shorter wavelengths WS8XK, XDA and W2XAD are to be heard before breakfast.