Another Enthusiastic DX-er

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 32, 20 February 1931, Page 2

Another Enthusiastic DX-er

Claim Not Substantiated [Hn Broadcasting Oompany re. ceives many requests from overseas listeners for: confirmation of their claims to have heard orie or other of the YA stations, All manner of ruses are resorted to in order to procure the desired certificate. _ By the last mail to all the YA stations came a letter from..a young man in New Jersey, on the Atlantic Coast, which read: "Please inform. me. if you of proadeasting on Sunday, "December 2ist, with church. services. I am positive that I heard your station on about-(here he filled in the station’s wave-length) at about 5.00 am, on date of 21st." The writer was evidently under the impression that the YA stations were each separately owned, hence he sent the same letter to each. . He listened in to four New. Zealand ‘stations at the same time! And he heard 500 watt stations in New Zealand when he probably cannot hear the more powerful stations located on the Pacific Coast. His astuteness in claiming to have listened in on a Sunday night, when it would be a certainty that church services were ,. being broadcast in New Zealand, did not gaitt:. the reward he ’ desired. But not context with claiming to have heard the four YA stations on the same evening, he* also writes to 8ZO Christchurch, 260° watts, reporting that on the evening of. December 80th : "T heard what I believe was your station broadcasting." 8ZC was. certainly on the air that day (Tuesday), as any log book would show. « . . By the same mail, 1YA received a letter from another enthusiast in New Jersey, but he followed a different line of attack. He claimed to have heard the Auckland 500 watt station on a certain date and time. -The -items heard were mentioned and they were correct, too. Prima facie it was O.K., but. unfortunately a comparison between the date of the letter and the date of the broadcust showed that there was ample time for the correspondent to have secured his information troy a copy of the "Radio Record." 4 Since the day when the Broadcast ing Company received two: lettersone from the Pacific Coast and one from ‘the Atlantic coast, 4000 miles across the continent-the writers claiming to have heard 2YA and quoting the same disjointed words from -a speech they. said they had heard, a grave suspicion tests on all. Atlantic Coast DXers who claim to hear New Zealand stations. It is quite a common thing for the Pacific Coast to:enjoy: good reception of 2YA, but it.is:somewhat of an achievement for the radio waves to travel a further 4000 miles ‘across land to the Atlantie shore. The fact that only a sentence or two ont of a speech A should have been quoted "by the two" correspondents pointed to orily’ one conclusion, and ‘that ‘was that the ‘radio fan on the West Ooast had communicated (probably by telegraph) with his friend on the Hast Coast.