Notes and News

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 30, 6 February 1931, Page 30

Notes and News

PCI Experiments w with Directional A LETTER ot from eed states that they are experimen with a new B and © antenna. The ang is directed to. the Hast, O is. directed to South America, and A is the old antenna radiating in directions. News from the United . States. ‘AN interesting and newsy letter has just been received from .Mr. Joseph B. Sessions, Connecticut, USA. The following extracts will, interest N.Z. listeners :-~ 12R0, Rome, "One of our strongest ‘foreign stations at the present time is , Rome, on 25.4 metres, they come through, very well in the afternoons and early evening here." Chi Hoa, Indo-China (Saigon), This tion is heard in the early’ morning, but spoilt ‘by local interference, .NRH, Costa Rica, "I am very pleased that our mutual friend, Cespedes, of NRH fame, has recently received a great many letters from New Zealand and Australia. I have received a letter from him to-day (Dec. 29, 1930), in which he adviseg that he has ‘just about completed the construction of an entirely new 75 watt transmitter and expects to be on the air within

a week, I shall be anxious to learn from you how you receive him when he gets this new outfit in operation." KIO, on 25.6 metres. "T am also anxious to know if you hear KIO, Kauhuku, Island of Oahu, Hawaii, Vv operate irregularly on about 25.6 metres with 1 k.w. of power, and are @ generally talking: to California or Manil have just. started ‘testing on 25.34 metres, Resulé of Competition Programme from "7 W9XAA. Ost readers will remember that on al ober 4, 1930, a special international programme was broadcast from 43) Chicago, on 49.34 metres, for which many prizes were offered for the

best reports sent- in from any part of the world. . The International -‘Short-Wave Club report that letters were received from every continent, but that only one award was given to a listener in U.S.A, as signals skipped over almost all sections of that counjry. The first prize, a complete ten-valve receiver, donated by the H. M. Kipp Co., Toronto, for the best report from a longdistance was awarded to Mr. Ivan O’Meara, Gisborne, New Zealand. Other prize-winning New Zealanders are as follow: Mr. Dudley 'T. Huston, Timaru, a Sessions Chime Clock; Mr. R. T. Stanton, Christchurch, a. pair of head phones; Mr. W. I. Inglis, Wellington, a pair of head phones; Mr. ©, B. Dredge, Palmerston, valves; Mr. H. F. Adcock, Masterton, valves. Congratulations to all the above. Indian Short-Wave Stations, [THE Bombay and Caleutta broadcasting stations are carrying out experimental relays on 49.1 metres and 25.27 metres respectively.

VSiAB, Singapors, . A TRANSMITTOR at Singapore, operating under the call-sign of VS1AB, on 41.7 metres, carries out regular broadeasts of gramophone music on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 2.80 a.m. till’ 4 a.m., N.Z. summer time. Sir Hubert Wilkins from W2XAF, Schenectady . W. BRIDEN-JONES (Palmerston. North) reports hearing a specia] transmission from W2XAF on the 25th inst., when, after the American cartoonist, Mr. Robert Ripley, spoke for a few minutes, soon after midnight our time Sir Hubert Wilkins spoke to Australia. After sending greetings to all his friends, he spoke in complimentary terms. of the American people. Later, he outlined his movements prior to setting out for the North Pole. He expects to leave New York early in May for London, later going to Norway for the crew. He expects to be the only Englishman in the expedition. The journey will start from Norway for the 3000 miles trip under ice in the submarine specially equipped for the adventure, The craft is fitted with seven tubular drills (two are 12Q feet long). They will be able to stay under | the water for six days, and, when necessary, drill through the ice, which they do not expect to be thicker than 20 feet, for fresh air. On arrival at the Arctic circle it is intended to establish stationsto study weather conditions, Sir Hubert concluded his speech at 12.58 a.m., wishing his friends in Anstralia good luck for 19381. Mr. Briden-Jones says that 2XAF was R8,, reception being very good. The main Australian stations rebroadcast the speech.