Round the World on Short Wave

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 51, 3 July 1931, Page 33

Round the World on Short Wave

Short-wave News 8UZ, Melbourne. TATION 30UZ on about 32 metres is on the air again. ‘The station can be heard on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 12.30 a.m. till 1 am. and on Tuesday afternoon from 3.30 p.m. till 4 p.m., New Zealand time, An input power of 500 watts is used, Reports of reception are requested, and should be addressed to 83UZ Broadcasting Station, Bourke Street, Melbourne, Victoria. Radio Paris. THE following particulars of the new French short-wave station operat: ing on 20.63 metres are from a recent issue of "Listener In" (Melbourne) :- "The address of the new Paris station which is now being received so strongly during the breakfast hour is ‘Radio Paris,’ ‘ (i: Compagnie Francais de Radionie, 16 Rue de Reiner, Paris. The name the street is not certain, as we have to rely on doubtful phonetics for its spclling. Paris will be quite sufficient, however, because ‘Radio Paris’ and the ©.F.R. is well enough known.. The programmes being broadcast are apparently those ,of the long-wave station on 1725 metres, and the full announcement is as follows: ‘Allo! Ici le poste de Clichy de emission Radio Paris de la Compagnie Francaise de Radiophonie," and at the eonclusion of the transmission: ‘Bonsoir, mesdames; bonsoir, mademoiselles; bonsoir, messieurs, followed by the ‘Marseillaise,’ the French national-anthem. The station has just completed and is located at Pontoise, near Paris." CJA, Canada. HE Canadian terminal of the beam service at Montreal, CJA, 24.79 metres, is now engaged on a series of telephony tests with Rockbank and Ballan (Australia) terminals on 25 metres. Radio Saigon and Radio Manila. Bote these stations, which have not been heard in New Zealand for some time, are now coming back. They are both still on the 49-metre band. Rotary Radio Greetings. ITHOUT a doubt the most interesting event heard on short, waves during the past week was the exchanges of greetings and musical numbers between the Rotary Clubs of Schenectady, New York, through station W2XAF, and the Melbourne Club, via VK2MH, last Thursday evening. Reception from the commencement of the proceedings at 10.30 p.m. till the final good-night at 11 p.m. was near perfect from both stations at full spcaker volume. Both VK2MHE and W2XAF came on the air nearly an hour earlier, when final arrangements were made. The American station during the earlier part of this period was distorted, but soon japproved,

Log for Week Ending June 27. HE following log is for a small part of the week only, as I was out of town for a few days, but it will serve as a guide as to what to listen for. RV15, Siberia, 70.1 metres; Volume good each evening. HVJ, Vatican City, 50.26 metres: Excellent volume and- quality each morning from about 6.80 a.m. Moscow, 50 metres: Sunday, Friday, and Saturday at 7 a.m. about R8, but noisy each morning. . W9XF, Chicago, 49.83 metres: Sunday, R7 at 4 p.m., gushy and distorted. Saturday, better volume and quality, but very noisy background. ZL2ZX, Wellington, 49.51 metres: On Saturday evening this local shortwave station came in well, quality being excellent. WSXAL, Cincinnati, 49.5 metres: Sunday, 4. p.m., R8, increasing to RO by 5 p.m. About the same on Friday and Saturday at the same time. They were heard again on Saturday night till 11.30 p.m. at R8, but background noises were bad. W2XE, New York,. 49.02 metres: R6 on Sunday at 4 p.m. Statie was bad. WS8XL,, Boundbrook, 46.69 metres: Very gushy at 4 p.m. on Sunday. Volume was R7. REN, Moscow, 45.4 metres (about): Sunday, Monday, Friday and Saturday good volume each morning, but Saturday was by far the best, being R9 with one stage of audio. Quality also was good, VK3ME, Melbourne, 31.55 metres: Thursday from 9.380 p.m. R9; again on Saturday evening; also good volume, but severe fading. at times. W2XAF, Schenectady, 31.48 metres: Sunday, reaching R9 by closing time3.30 p.m. Thursday, about 9.30 p.m., R89, slightly distorted, improving by p.m. and reaching R9. On Saturday volume was R3 at 11.30 a.m., slowly increasing to R9 by 8 p.m. Zoosen, Germany, 31.88 metres: Friday and Saturday, RS at 7. a.m., very gushy each morning. ‘ WIXAZ, Springfield, 31.35 metres: Very gushy on Sunday. Saturday was better, R5 at 3 p.m. with an organ recital, increasing to R8-9 by 3.80 p.m. They signed off at 3.45 p.m. PCJ, Eindheven, Holland, 31.28 metres: Saturday, 12.30 p.m. till after 1 p.m. R8-9. Again from about 3 p.m. till 3.20 p.m. at R9 with a programme for North and Central America. From 4.15 p.m. a special programme was broadcast for Australia and New Zealand. This was received at R9 but slight static marred reception. Radio Paris, 25.63 metres: Weak early, but from about 8 a.m. volume reached RY. and continued ‘at this till about 10 a.m.

G5SW, Chelmsford, 25.53 metres: Not so good again now, Saturday was R8 from 8 am. till 10 a.m., from then till 10.30 a.m. volume decreased to R7. Reception was gushy all through, but the final announcement from Chelmsford was 100 per cent. readable, when giving details of the next programme to be radiated by or e 12R0, Rome, 25.4 metres: Weak at 7 a.m., reaching R9 by 8 a.m., continuing good volume, and quality for some time

was the result of Sunday, Friday and Saturday listening. WSXK, Pittsburgh, 25.25 metres: Sunday, 1 p.m., R7-8 and gushy, reaching R9 by 2 p.m., remaining at this till signing off at 3.30 p.m. Saturday R8 at & am., very gushy. 11.30 am. R7 till N.Z. Short-wave Club A MEMBER writes in to say that he saw one of our cards in a Ham station reporting him QSA 6. Evidently he must imagine it to be a super station because most stations are exceedingly pleased to get QSA 5 (the maximum). Home trouble: I had a visitor recently who built a set and on a friend’s advice made several alterations. The technician specifies a certain style of coil, which is made a certain way. ‘To alter the coi) and condenser values and wiring makes it a different set altogether. If the rule of following the diagram is observed and the set is kept just below oscillation results will be much better. If you can get a signal clearly, do not try to make it louder or else your neighbours will be annoyed. Jinding stations while the set is on the verge of oscillating will be simpler, hand capacity, etc., being reduced. Letters from shortwavers in New Zealand and abroad are appreciated, also information which we can pass on. Address: A. B. McDonagh, 274 Cuba Street, Wellington, New Zealand.

Re-allocation of Frequencies "THE International Union of Radio met a short time ago in connection with a re-allocation of frequencies used by stations other than those on the broadcast band. So far very little is known of the conclusions arrived at, but it is understood that a definite scheme has been formulated, and this’ will be placed before another conference to be held next year. To give an idea’ of the method of allocating the different frequencies it is necessary to go back to 1927, when a congress was held at Washington and an endeavour made to arrive at a practical solution of the -problem. This conference fixed the scale of wireless telegraphic frequencies for the use of ships, aviators, amateurs, etc. The International Union of Radio erected a station at Brussels and endeavoured to maintain the decision of the conference in Europe, and ever since that date has continuously studied radio telegraphic conditions on the Continent. After a period of four years it has now become apparent that some alteration in the allocations made by the Washington Conference are necessary. as the growing use of long-distance wireless telegraphy, ete, is adding enormously to the difficulties experienc- ea through the present frequency division. ° Of Topical Interest [24LIAN stations are actively. exe tolling the virtues of the wines of their country over the air. Talks dealing with the subject are given in five languages. , Soviat Russia is the only country that broadcasts more talks than entertainment. Moré than three-quar-ters of the programme consist of propaganda and educational talks, 20 per cent. being devoted to amusement; N American station at Schenectady has a sound film apparatus install ed in its auditorium, and, should there be any doubt as to the radio qualities of a prospective performer’s voice, a sound film is first made of it. This enables the voice to be judged and at the same time safeguards the singer’s reputation.