Log for Week Ending April 18

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 41, 24 April 1931, Page 33

Log for Week Ending April 18

ee iae St TIC: has: been yery severe on the "higher" short: aves, that. is, above 40 metres. Below.this it was less severe; improving, in most CARE, as the frequency increased, "en % THIS list does 68 iniclude ‘duplex telephone stations ‘(of which quite a number are heard), "but _ only _ short-wave broadeast stations. © RV15, Siberia, 70.1 metres ood Vol. ume each evening." Statice very bad wards énd of weeks’ ‘*" 1ZR, Auckland, :68.8 "metres (about) — This. is not a' short-wave transmitter, but was. received on Sunday evening on’ their fourth harmonic at:R9.. The owners of 1ZR report that signals. are received better in some digtrictson harmonics than nm their proper’ wavelength. HVJ, Vatican City, 50.26 metres.‘rom. ‘6.80'a.m. each morning except Monday. at R9. Statice bad"last day or_ two. ave Chicago, ace meirens: Satur: day, 7 at p.m... Statie very ‘ba , Russia, 49.2 metres (about): Monaay, Thursday and Saturday mornings, best about, 6.a.m., when they have been up .to/RO9. Saturday afternoon, 4 p.m., a R8, talks by a man and woman. ° W3XAL, Boundbrook, 49.18 metres: On Sunday an interesting relay was transmitted from a -hotel in New York, where there was a gathering of circus owners and eéntértainers, Lion -tamers, a dwarf, a fat lady‘ and a number of others ° before the microphone. Severe static spoilt reception. W2XE, New York, 49.02 metres: Sunday. 5 p.m., an organ recital was heard at F8ICB, Saigon; Indo-China, 49 metres: Friday and Saturday from 11 p.m. at Bs. Static: was very bad. WS8XK, Pittsburgh, 48.86 metres; Sunday and Saturday, "good volume spoilt by static. Moscow, 45.4 inetres (about): Mon: day, ‘fuesday, Wedtiesday and Friday. The first day was the best, being excellent at ‘RO at, 615 a.m., with talks and: music. Reception on the other mornings was spoilt by static, . Radio Maroc, Rabat, Moroceo, 32,26 metres: Openéd at 7.80 a.m. on Monday. Reception . was excellent at R9Y till’ 8 a.m., when I’ had, to leave them, . The quality, volume and freedom of: static made reception like a local station. VK8ME, Melbourne, 31,55 metres: Wednesday at 10, 15 _ pm,’ R9 with one stage of audio : +" OXY, Denmark, 81.54 -metres : Only heard on Friday. morning at 6,30 a.m, t lk at R3. W2XAP, . Schenectady, | 31.48. metres: Sunday were weaker than usual] abd gushy. ° Reception’ on Saturday was better, being R9 at 3,80 p.m. with their "Kodak Week-end’ Eatedl and later with their R.K.O. featu WIXAZ, 81. 35 metres: Very good on Sunday and Saturday afternoons. 4 p.m. being the. -maximum yolume at R9, but quite good before and after this time. Saturday night, Started at 12 p.m.. R8. POS, Hiindhoven, Holland, $1.28 metres : Saturday afternoon only this week. R9 from 2 p.m, till nearly: 6 p.m, except for an interval rig 3:80. p.m. to allow the announcer, Mr. Startz, and staff time ‘off for’ (This is pure speculation on’ my part. The station is on the air from midnight till 5.30 a. i pputoh: time, so they observe a short spe G5SW, Chelmsford, 25.53 metres: Bach \, morning except Sunday ‘and Monday from a.m, at R8-9.- Readability has been better the Jast few mornings, but ‘still marred by rapid fade. * 12R0, Rome, 25.4 metres: Bxcellent every inorning, Thursday at 6.30 a.m. they were R9 with one stage of audio. Pittsburgh, 25.25 metres: Suaday and Saturday till pam,

up to R8, They change over ‘about this time from -25.25.metres to 48.86. metres,