Of Topical Interest

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 34, 6 March 1931, Page 5

Of Topical Interest

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HORTLY after midnight, Thursday, February 26, 6WF, Perth, could be heard all over the writer’s house. Choruses of "John Brown," "Blighty," the "Stein Song," ete, were eoming through. Shortly afterwards "Switch" noticed that some strange station was heterodyning with 2FC, Sydney. Here ig a problem for some of our super DX listeners: What station is tangled up with 28°C? (Q)CCASIONALLY a pathetic appeal is heard from the Australian broadeast stations. On Thursday night, February 26, 2NC, Sydney, broadcast. a request for information of the whereabouts of a certain woman, giving her name and original address, and stating that her son was seriously ill in hospital and was constantly calling ‘for er. THE call-sign of the Melbourne yacht Oimara, which will soon be leaying Auckland on her return voyage

across the Tasman, is VJNY, and the wavelength used is 42.6 metres. Those who have heard the yacht’s transmitting wave state that it is remarkably steady; this is due to the fact that it is erystal controlled. The Oimara’s wireless operator left the yacht at Wellington, and caught the first steamer for Sydney. ,