Notes and News

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 13, 9 October 1931, Page 31

Notes and News

Short-wave Broadcasting Corporation. YVVIDESPREAD extension of inter. national. short-wave broadcasting is planned in the fusion of interests of the Aviation. Radio Corporation of New York, which is a subsidiary. of the Curtiss Wright aviation interests and the Shortwave and Television Corporation of Boson. . . A subsidiary company has been formed, and named the Short-wave Broadcasting Corporation, which will use four of the sixty: short-wave lengths now divided among the nations of the world. The United States Federal Radio Gommission has transferred the short-wave license of W2XAL, the short-wave auxiliary of WRNY, in New York, to the Short-wa've Broadcasting Corporation, and authorised its potential transfer to Boston, and the utilisation of four international channels assigned to Aviation 2 on 6040, 11,800, 25,240, and 21,460 kilo@le: (49.46, 25.42, 11.89, and 13.50 metres). These combined interests are already arranging contacts with the various European broadcasting organisations, including the British Broadcasting Corporation, who, according to Sir John Keith, will increase the power of GSSW at Chelmsford to 50 kilowatts, before the end of the year, and will transmit programmes between the hours of 0100 to 0400 (12.30 a.m. to 3.30 a.m. N.Z. time), for the express benefit of listeners in the western hemisphere, and "Polskie Radio," Warsaw, Poland, who are now constructing a 50-kilowatt short-wave auxiliary for the 159-kilowatt station on -1411 metres. Other broadcasting organisations with whom negotiations have been entered into are: Ente Italiano Sudizioni RadioFoniche (Italy), Transradio (Berlin, Germany), Transradia International (Buenos deft ires, Argentina), Transradio Internajonal (Santiago, Chile), Amalgamated Wireless, Australasia, Ltd. (Sydney, Australia), and. the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation, Tokio, Japan. Negotiations with other South American countries will be extended further, with the aim of building up a definite world-wide broadeasting of the various nations available to all other nations. The Short-wave Broadcasting Corporation is the first in the world projected for broadcasting exclusively upon _ shortwaves. Japanese Short-waver. GTATION JMIJA, Tokio, Japan, on 31.3 . metres, is sometimes ‘"‘on the air" from 9.30 to 12.80 a.m., N.Z. time. The station ean be identified by the call, "Alsely, Alsey, Obrega, Obrega, Sunsi, Sunsi, this is JMJA." XEW, Mexico City. TATION XEW, "The Voice of Latin America," is broadcasting on 49.9 metres. Their schedule is not yet to . hand, but they have been heard in New Zealand from about 6.380 p.m. Announcemé@nts are made in Spanish and English. VKSLR, Ausiralia. VESLR, owned by the JHlsternwick Radio Club, Victoria, has been heard recently on the 80 metre band. A relay of 3AR came through well a few evenings ago.