News and Views of the D.X. CLUB

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 48, 12 June 1931, Page 20

News and Views of the D.X. CLUB

Identification Wanted STATION heard 300 metres (approx.), 11.10 p.m. Thursday, June 4. 11.10, FSergeant-Major on Parade"; 11.15, "Travel Along Leading a Vagabond Life." Letters were read out concerning reception. Station name mentioned 3BL (?) and Bendigo was also mentioned. 11.25, Steel guitar band items, "Moonlicht

0n Colorado.

L.R.

H.

(Dunedin).

MERICAN on approx, 288 metres, 221" on 285, 2UN 293, at 5.15 p.m., Sunday, May 81. Heard church service Ry. Another on 282 metres, approx., ZY on 280. Could not get either call. Is there a station on 801 metres which can be received here on a four-valve set? l heard one a-fortnight aeo. but have

IOL heard anything since

Dink

(Helens)ille)

GTATION on 1500 ke. (approx.), 200 metres, heard broadcasting orchestral items at 5.50 p.m. on May 18. Statice too . bad to hear call. Station above Hobart on 360 ke. (approx.), 585 metres, heard avout 1.20 am. on May 20. Orchestral items; could not catch call. Station between 2UH, Sydney, and 8YA, Christchurch, heard several times between 11

Pm. a226 12 p.m:

Murihiku

(Invercar-

gill).

GQTATION heard at 11.45 p.m. on May 27, just below 3AR, Melbourne. Cornet solo, followed by a soprano solo, banjo solo, and other musical items. Announcer spoke in broken Hnglish, very hard to understand; also station below

ZEL, Sydney_~sounded Chinese.

Radio

(Wellington).

‘A MBRICAN heard from 5-5.30 p.m. on May 28. Appeared to be broadcasting speeches in Japanese and Americin, made at a dinner given to Japanese delegates. Toasts were proposed. When signing off I caught "San Francisco" and "broadcasting on a frequency of 1040 "ke." (288 metres). Announcer stated. "station would be on the airy again at 9 a.m.

to-morrow morning,’-S. W. Jorland (Wallaceville). TATION on 804, just above 7ZL, Hobart, 88, heard at 11.15 p.m. Man was talking in a foreign language, which did not sound either Japanese or Chinese. Also musical items, "Valencia," "La

badly.

K.

Morrison

040* Dodda 44145 (Roslyn) .

STATION heard on approx. 10380 ke. (291 metres), at 10.45 p.m. on May 81; 2UHE heterodyning badly. Announcer called: "Hullo, hullo, hullo," and counted up’to ten. He then recited the alphabet throuch. This was repeated several

times until 2UH drowned him out.

H.

H.

UnISTcnurcn )_

At 4.30 am. on May 31 station heard ‘on 1000 ke. (800 m.), Someone was speaking in a foreign language, but although I waited for an hour I did not re-

ecelve his eall sign again

J.H.

S.

Dun-

eatin)

WV EXICAN station on 950 ke. (316 m.), logged several times between 4 and 430 p.m. I notice a DX-er receives WOAT at 5 p.m. Last July I received him at 2.15 pm. at strong loudspeaker

strength.-

Nom-de-plume

(Gisborne).

STATION on about 48U m. (625 ke.),, heard at midnight on May 29. Also one‘on about 345 metres (870 ke.), just

below 2BL.-

Molecule

(Hastings).

~TATION heard behind KSTP, 1460 ke, (205 m.), after latter closes down. Also station 4 a degree lower than this

approx. 1465 ke, (204.8 m.). Not KGA.

J.T.

S.

(Napier).

QGTATION heard on June 2, at 6.10 p.m., on 217 m. (1380 k.c.), playing "The Royal Vagabond." Call sounded like KGRS, Texas. Also station on approx. 214 metres (1400 k.c.), heard at 6.20 p.m. on same night, " and his Vagabonds" played "Whose Sorry Now?" Gould not catch the call, but heard the word "Minne-

apolis." I understood him to say they were on 205 4-10 metres, but "hat was not in accordance with my dial reading. I

heard him close at 1 a.m.

E.S.

T.

— Lead

In

(Greymouth).

[LAGi»S, Gish hadlo Service, Amarulo, Texas.-Iid. | wy TATION heterodyning with 2YA Wellington was heard on 24th, and also

one just above (fu £s£opart.

S.M.

C.

MOKau )

8 i is proDdadly oUL, Ade«alde.--ON May 30, at approximately 11.30 p.m., I heard a station between 1ZH and 4YA, counting from one to five in English. He was still on the air at 11.50 p.m.,

but wras unreada ple.

Electron

(Uam

{LIU

GTATION on 277 metres (1080 k.c.). Can be heard at about 7.30 a.m., and mentioned "Sunrise Broadcast’ Service." Also station on 625 k.c. (483 metres) heard on 30th, at 11.30. pun. when a vocal item was broadcast. All

innouncements Were in English.

Oscar

Aarton)

Stations Identified : AVETRAP" (Wanganui): Station _ on approximately 1800 ke. heard at am. is 3K2Z, Melbourne. I have picked him up at this time and held him at good Strength till after daylight. Irequency, howeyer, should be 13850 ke. (222 metres), L.I. (Gisborne): See April 24 issue for information re Lake Te Anau station. I sent a report to Wellington and received a reply within 4 days. "MAAH" (Morrinsyville): You may be unable to separate 2B from 38UZ. It is usual fo: the former to advertise a radio firm in Castlereagh Street. "Rrequeney Cop’ (Auckland) : Station on 2YA is 5CL Adelaide, To several inquirers: Station on

SAR is KZRM. Manila

B.

W.

Oondrtlo ford

"WYVAVETRAP" (Wanganui) and P.K.B. (Oamaru) : Probably 8KZ, Melbourne, which I understand has been conducting a 24-hour broadeastins cer.

Fice:

Murihiku

(Invercargill

[Considering the effective height of your aerial is only 21 feet, your log is excellent. You would secure better results, however, by increasing aerial height to at least 30 feet.-Hd.] W H.R. (Dunedin): I have heard the "* ® station on 595 ke. (504m.). and

belleve if to be a Jap-

Yankee

"(New

1 lymoutn

A M. (Dunedin) and others: On May * 18, Radio Bangkok, Siam, was on the air from shortly after 1 a.m. (when I tuned in) till 2.50 a.m., when he closed down. He was operating on approx. 840 ke, (857 metres). Dialings, 2BL, 534; 3ZR, 564; Radio Bangkok, 54 1-8. On the same night I logged 3GA. Canherra ond

3KC Melbourne:

Koputan

(Port

Chalmers_

ers | "TPADIO 3" (Hillgrove) ; JOAK, Osaka ; | "W.HLR." (Dunedin) ; 8TR, Gippsland Broadcasting Service, Trafalgar, Vic. "L.I." (Gisborne), station on 198 metres, is probably "Glade House Radio," Lake Te Anau. It works Te Anau Hotel.-

Oscar

(Marton).

"T }ETECTOR."-Hvidently 3KZ, Melbourne, on 1350 k.c. (222m.). I have heard him several times recently, between 4 and 7.30 a.m. Another correspondent inquires re Californian station on 3L0’a frequency. This is KGO. San Francisco, an k.e. (380 m.).-*Ocol" (Hawke's ay). ss AVETRAP" (Wanganui)-Heard this station on same date as you did, and also two days later. Call sign was 3RI, Melbourne. Station P. H. Crough

neara was JOIk.

W.H.

R.

(Dunedin). ,

DX Topics Private Stations Overlap. At present 2ZW, on 269 metres, approx., in Wellington, and 1ZR, on 275 metres, are overlapping each other badly. I find 1ZR on 2 metres below his allotment, so am blaming him. Can anything be done to separate these two good private stations without making a

rejecter

Dink

(Hielensville).

[Not unless one of them shifts slightly. Complain to the Radio Inspector.-Kd. | HAS anyone heard 2MK, Bathurst, and 4Gh, Toowoomba, recently? Are they still on the air? Last Saturday evening, May 30, at 10.15 p.m., I heard my name with "Hlectron’ (Wellington) mentioned from 2MV, Moss Vale, and he said he had received our letters for verification. On June 1, at} 6.15 a.m., 1 picked up ZIC, Cape Town, on 372 metres broadcasting dance numbers, and he came through at R4. Has any other DXer had this station yet? He is my first South African. ‘WTAM, Cleveland; WOA, San Antonio; KGA, Spokane, and KVOO, ‘Tulsa, were received nt R&8 on Mav 21. £=Mev lae far Amarieanc

is n0w 35_

P.F.

K.B.

(Oamaru)

A Special for N.Z. y RITING on May 8, the Directo: of _ Programmes of WKBF, Indianasays: "We are planning a_ big broadcast for New Zealand and Alaskan listeners only. It is our wish that you will be able to pick it up and, if so, may we ask that you inform us again by letiex? The test will begin at approsimat 12.30. am., C.S.T., and end about 8%89 a.m, on: the morning of June 16, Would greatly appreciate any publicity given the broadcast and in the event of several succeeding in hearing parts of it we will arrange another for your convenience," That

will be the evening of June 15 here and apparently the station is going to cone trouble to entertain us we should reciprocate and give full reports. WKBF operates on 1400 k.c. (214.2 m.), power 500 watts. Their address is 5404 N Meridian St.. Indianapolis, Indiana.-

Cromdale

(Otago).

News of 2CA, Canberra. LATEST American loggings are:WLS, Chicago, 870 k.c. (844.6 m.); WLAO, Nashville, 1470 k.c. (204 m.); and KFJF, Oklahoma City, 1480 k.c. (202.6 m.). I also heard a- station (American, I think) on approx. 920 k.c., at 5.80 p.m. on June 1. He was fading and I could not catch his call. The following is an extract from a verification received recently from 2CA, Canberra :-- "At present I am transmitting regularly on Sunday nights only from about 8.30 p.m. with occasignal unscheduled test transmissions on week-days. The tests are preliminary low power transmissior’s preparatory to putting on the final full-power amplifier. My input at present to the final stage is only 14 watts and it is very gratifying indeed to know that it is getting out so well." No frequency is given, but is roughly about 1050 k.c. (285 m.). On May 28 I heard a relay from San Francisco of a reception to the Hmperor of Japan. This relay was given simultaneously from KRLD, Dallas; Wenr, Chicago; KOA, Denver; KGO, Oakland, and KPO,

San Francisco.

N.

Jenkins

. (Master-

ton

European Broadcasters. I HAVE heard quite a number of Huropean stations on the broadcast band in the early hours of the morning, but with the exception of two Hinglish stations -London Regional and London National, 261m. (1150ke.)-I have been unable to identify any of them. I wrote to the B.B.C. in December last for verification

‘of. their National programme from London, but so far have not received any reply. I might mention that this station came in regularly every morning from November to February. The Australian stations are coming in well now in the mornings, 2NO, Newcastle from 8.30 to 9 am, on news and weather can be heard all aver the honse on svnenker. bndt- at

times there are bad fades.-

Lighthouse

(Bluff).

Whno is Anis? W S.K. (Nelson) in the issue dated *May 22, is correct. I have also heard the stations mentioned. On May 27, just before 7 p.m., I tuned in to 2ZW. waiting for him to commence, I heard quite plainly at about R6: "Hello, Hello, Hello, 1, 2, 8," ete. The whole call took about 12 seconds, and before he said anw mara YAW agama in with a mar’

CLU Aii "J Lane completely drowning him:

L.C.

A.

2oetP Ara-

moho}.

_--~ew DX Notes. (CONDITIONS have been bad up here lately for DX-ing, but the night of May 27 was an exception. KGO was heard at 5.80 p.m. broadeasting a deseription of a baseball match, while later -in the evening, other Americans were roaring in. TYTatest verification is from

WOKY, Covington, Kentucky.-

Yankee

(New Plymouth).

KZRM Well Received. PARLY. Sunday morning, May 31, KZRM, Radio, Manila, was coming with good strength, possibly for the reason that 3AR has shifted from its regular wavelength. Listened for about an hour -one till two-and twice station was broadeasting boxing. There were three rounds of first fight, and then a return to studio or hotel for dance numbers, one being the much tattered "Go Home and Tell Your Mother." Then back to stadium for another contest, announcer giving fighter’s names and weights, and mentioning that first fight was completed in fourth round.

It was to have been a ten-rounder. Do any of the Japs have an American announcer on part time? Just after midnight on same night there was a quaint orchestral selection roaring in from JOHK, and when it finished an announcer, with a very pronounced American accent, gave the next two items, at the completion of which the Jap started off in his familiar harangue. 3HF,

wood (1230 ke.), was "chirping" away after 2NC had signed off, and when I signed off at 2 a.m., 4Z0, Dunedin, was still on a dance swept" (Wellington). [Your log, considering that in your particular locality power interference from trams is:bad, is excellent.-Hd.] DX. Notepaper Appreciated. QVERSEAS. stations are coming in much more strongly now the winter is setting in. My latest loggings are yin ONE. 1IZJ, IZR, 2ZW, 3ZR, 2MO, and 4B0, on his new wavetah: The Dx notepaper is a boon, and, no doubt, gives the DX’er a little standing, I hope all club members will

wear their badges in the street, and that it will serve as an invitation to a brother DX’er to stop and make himself known."Amazon" (P.N.). Recent Loggings. HAs any DX’er been receiving KZRM early in the evening? I can frequently hear him at 9.80 pm. On May 28, at 10 o’clock, he was as strong as 3AR. Popular numbers are played until 10.30 p.m., when a clock chimes the hour of 7. This is followed by weather and market reports, KIFI was heard at full speaker strength on 30th, at 10 p.m., with a test programme, On the 29th, WAOT was first heard at 4 p.m., and WTAM and KMOX at 4.15 p.m. The same night I logged KTRH, Houston, Texas. I have not seen this station reported bé@fore. Two other recent loggsings are KWKH

and KLX.-

Ray DX

(Waikato).

2NC, Newcastle. OLLOWING are particulars of 2NO, Newcastle, taken from a recently received verification, The station, which is owned and operated by the P.M.G.’s De partment, is situated. approx. 14 miles from Newcastle, and transmits on 1245 ke. (241m.). Power, rated as input to the final stage, is 6 kw., or 2 kw. unmodulated carrier power. Transmitter, is crystal controlled, and capable of 100 per cent, modulated.- A. Baker (Wanganui). Easily Received Americans. N June 2. at approx. 9 pm, KFI was coming in at R10 on a test programme, WOAI, WFAA, KTM, KNX, KPO and KSTP have ben coming in at eood londsneaker strength here lately.--

Ocol

(Hawke's Bay).

N.Z, Verkications. MAN readers report difficulty in securing verifications from certain New Zealand "B" class stations. Has anys DXer yet received a verification from 27,W.° Wellington. or 1ZR, Auck-

land ?

Kohi

(Auckland). ane

DX Competition [D*ERS, do not forget that the . next period for the DX Cup closes on June 30. _ By this date all logs must be in our hands, Remember that Australian stations received in daylight can be entered in the competition, and that the winner in each district receives a certificate. We have received interesting letters from DX-ers and it appears that the next competition will be keenly contested.