Round the World on Short Wave

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 17, 6 November 1931, Page 31

Round the World on Short Wave

° NZ. Short-wave Club Notes -_- wit intending members please note _ that the subscription for | the reof the year, which ends in April, 1932, has been reduced to 8/-. It pains me to have to state this, as I do not like to see the change go away again. I often notice complaints about not receiving replies from stations. I think this is really due to the sender’s name and address being incomplete or not plainly. written. It is a gool plan to print your name.and address plainly on top of your letter, card, or sheet, as the busy station staff have a habit of jotting down the address and passing the letter on to who_ever’s. duty it is to sift the report for filing. Very often I receive answers addressed to so and so, ¢/o Headquarters, N.Z.8.W.C., Wellington, N.Z., owing to the address being illegible. Most likely-a deputation will wait upon the Postmaster-General'to see if we can obt4in permission to give club notes over the tir again, as is done in other places. The ‘Short-wave Club is not a business concern, but desires to advance radio in New Zealand, and so keep pace with other countries. Very seldom do we hear of short-wavers giving up the game altogether. Sometimes they give it up, but, sooner or later they drift back just to hear what is going on. There igs considerable activity in the ranks of the Night Owl Club. Jt appears that they are ‘after a number of faint stations which are on in the early hours of the morning, and some good bags are reported. A special new certificate of membership has been printed for the club. Our youngest member is aged 11. I do not know who is the eldest, but I often receive letters from a gentleman who is over 60 years of age. But the youngest qnember is yet to come. I hear that a Xunior called to see me recently, but, as I do not artive home until about 5.30, I did not see him. A. B. McDonagh, Secretary N.Z.S.W.C., 274 Cuba Street, Wellington, is the. address which will find me.-yYours fraternally, MAC. Short-wave Notes ay 228W; Mr. George F. Briggs, Morere, HLB., reports: Re station on 47.5 metres on Sunday, I heard one on approximately that wavelength. On October 24 they signed off at 5 p.m. All-an-nouncements are made in foreign language except at conclusion. when the announcer stated: "This is the voice of the tropics, Central America. We will be back on the air at 6 p.m. to-morrow." Their call was a cuckoo, repeated three times. This used to be the station call of HRB, Honduras, operated by _ the Tré@ical Radio Telegraph Company. I HEAR the special) American broad- +. casts to the far north and to missions in Egypt and India per KDKA, Pittsburgh, .on approximately ‘25.4 metres, each Sunday afternoon, R7, QSA3, about 4,15 p.m. LSO a telephone station about 25 metres, nearly every night. A very strong earrier, but speech only R7 QSA 3, all French. | A REPORT from: Christehurech, October 26, says that RV15 roars in, often has to be toned down. About three degrees above him is a station, I kkeard the announcer say "Deal, New Jersey," probably WGBN. One degree below RVi5 I heard a fine orchestra one night, but static was bad. W8XAL is very good. Holland up to a few weeks ago was good, but is poor lately. W2XAF and WSXK are good at times. G5SSW has not been good lately. A new Australian short-wave station, 3LR, Brigi_Jow, comes in plainly; vee

A MEMBER from Island Bay, who is also a transmitter, reports wonderful inerease in reception since he shifted to Lower Hutt PCJ, Holland. Ppa announced during their Saturday (October 24) morning programme, from ,6.30 a.m. to 830 a.m., that this would be the last time they would be on the air for about six months. They intend to reopen on or about May 1, 1932. Mr. Gledhill (Christchurch), who

reported receiving the above news "over the air,’ says that no reason was given for closing the station for such a long period. RW59, Moscow. HE 50-metre station at Moscow has the call RW59. G5SSW, Chelinsford. T is rumoured that G5SW> is going to inerease its power to 50 kilowatts in.the near future, and also that it will continue transmitting until 4 a.m. G.M.T. (4 p.m. N.Z. summer time). WGY Programmes on 5 Metres. BELIEVING the bands of five metres and under offer great possibilities in radio, especially in television, Dr. B.. F. W. Alexanderson, radio engineer of the General Blectric Company, has arranged for broadeasting one-hour programmes twice a week over W2XAW, operating on 5 metres. These programmes, the same as broadcast by WGY, will be transmitted from 10 to 11 a.m, every Wednesday and Friday, N.Z. summer time. Regular U.S.A.-Europe Relays. HE Columbia Broadcasting * System has just completed arrangements for a regular interchange of programmes between the United States and five Huropean countries-England, Franee,:. Austria, Hungary, and Czecho-Slovakia. Under the terms of the present. agreement, the exchange programmes will ‘bé:ayailable on regular channels to both continents, with equal representation*in. the number of progratimes transmitted. ° The Columbia® Broadcasting: System has made arrangements to. broadeast in the United States the proceedings: of the International Disarmament Conference .to ‘be held at Geneva next February..: Messages for Far North. DURING the past eight years KDKA, through their shortwave — station, WS8XK, have been sending messages of cheer from home to explorers and others gsthe icy wastes -of the Arctic, ‘KDKA :

also sent messages to the Byrd Eixpedition, Antarctic; Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey and his Orinoco Expedition; the Matto Grasso Expedition in South Western Brazil; Captain Bob. Bartlett .and his Expedition on the Greenland .Seas, and lots of others. This service has been carried out weekly during autumn and winter each Saturday evening. The New England stations, WBZ, WBZA, in conjunction with shortwave

station W1XAZ, are commencing a midweek broadcast for the Far North on Wednesday, October 7. ‘These will take place each Wednesday at 11.15 p.m. B.S.T., or 4.15 p.m. on Thursday, N.Z. summer time. : RECEPTION during the morning has gone off badly during the last few days. At 7.30 a.m. GdSW, 12RO, Moscow, ete., are only just audible. During the afternoon, W2XAF closes before it reaches good strength. W8XAL and W9XIF, on the other hand, reach R9 by 5 p.m. RV15, PLW, Saigon, and ZL2ZX are well received during the evening.

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