Log for Week Ending June 4

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 48, 10 June 1932, Page 24

Log for Week Ending June 4

ECEPTION generally is quite good, but conditions are changing. The twenty-five metre band is quite dead till 7 a.m. or after. The only station heard now at any strength on the fifty metre band during the late afternoon is W3XAL, and that, when the change takes place, mentioned earlier, will be missing soon, except on Sunday. W9OXEF and one or two others have been just audible on some days. Saigon is missing again, the only regular evening station being RV15, which is improving a little in volume. . RV15, Siberia, 70.4 metres:. Heard every evening, reaching up to R9 by 10.30 p.m. A very fine musical programme was heard on Saturday toward midnight. VJ, Vatican City, 50.26 metres: Good volume ‘from: 6.30 most mornings. RV59, Moscow, 50 metres: Has varied a lot during the week from very poor to quite good. Friday was best, R8 at 6.30 a.m. to R8-9 soon aftr 7 a.m., going off again later. "ZL2Z, X, Wellington, 49.5 metres: Monday, and Thursday, from 7 am., relaying 2Z4W, and from 8 p.m. on Saturday relaying DYA, W3 , Boundbrook, 49.18 metres: Not quite. strong now, byt still quite good till 4.30 p.m.. closing time. REN, Moscow, 45.38 metres: Heard most mornings, Tuesday and Friday be ing the best at RS from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. KEJ, Bolinas, 33.27 metres: Tuned in at 8.385 p.m. on Saturday, when a sponsored programme was relayed. It was quite good at R8-9 then, but went off to R4 bv 4 p.m., when they concluded the relay. Radio Maroc, Rabat, 32,26 metres: Only heard on Monday this week, when they were R8 with a very rapid fade from 7.45 a.m, till after 9 a.m. PLY, Jaya, 31.86 metres: At 10.45 p.m. on Tuesday: they were R&-9 with

records. Duplex with Sydney followed. XY, Denmark, 31.51 metres: Tuesday at 7 a.m., R5, with rapid fading. fading out soon after. Only just audible on other mornings. W2XAF, Schenectady, 31.48 metres: Saturday was the best day, when they reached R9 by 8 p.m., and remained at that till closing at 3.80 p.m. Gushiness has _ spoilt reception several times recently. Zeesen, Germany, 31.88 metres: (ood every morning, except Monday, when they were not audible. W1iXAZ, Springfield, 31.35 metres: Reaches RS-9 by 3.30 p.m. each day. VK2ME, Sydney, 31.28 metres: Excellent from 5.30 p.m. on Sunday at R9. EAQ, Madrid, 30.4 metres: R8-9 from 12 noon till 1.80 p.m. Has been gushy most days. DHB, Berlin, 29 metres (about): On Monday from a.m. to 8.15 a.m. a professor of Princetown University spoke from Berlin. Volume was good, but rapid fade spoilt readability. The talk was for reception in America, being relayed through the States by the N.B.O. Radio Colonial, Pontoise, Paris, 25.63 metres: Very good each morning from soon after 7.30 a.m. till 10.830 a.m. The time of the news in English session varies now, instead of being regular at 8.15 a.m. The usual session for America was, heard from 10 a.m. till 10.15 am. on Tuesday. G5SW, Chelmsford, 25.58 metres: Every morning, except Monday. Rapid fade bad, but not so bad as usual on Sunday and Wednesday, when strength was R&S till 945 am., when volume rapidly went off. 12R0, Rome, 25.4 metres: Reaches RS about 7 a.m. or soon after, but has been gushy most mornings.