Short-wave News

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 2, 22 July 1932, Page 24

Short-wave News

7L0, Nairobi. GHORT-WAVE station 7LO, Nairobi, working on a wavelength of 49.5 metres, has increased its power to 2 kilowatts. ~The schedule of 7LO, in New Zealand time, is as follows: Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 3.80 a.m. to 8 a.m.; Wednesday and Friday, 4 a.m. to 9 a.m.; and Monday, 3.30 a.m. to 7 a.m. Special sessions are broadcast on Tuesday from 7.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m., and on Friday from 12.30 a.m. to 1.30 a.m. Strange Stations. ‘ ON Friday morning at 8.40 a.m. music was heard at RD at about 31 metres. At 8.45, when the item concluded, a cuckoo call was ‘given, three times, followed by a call in a foreign language, which I could not identify (call or language). Singing by a choir followed, the cuckoo call being heard again at 8,50 a.m. Signals after this were too weak to follow the programme, This "cuckoo eall station" was reported by me a few weeks ago. Has any other listener heard it? It is possibly a low power station only heard occasionally. Over five years ago (early in 1927),.a similar call was heard from _ station WBBM, Chicago, on the broadcast band. This. turned out to be a programme by the "Cuckoo Club." By the way, that was quite good dx in those days of low power transmitters and, at this end, a home built receiver, Browning-Drake. Another stranger was heard on Friday evening, on about 32.5 metres, from 9.30 p.m., with music at R8-9. "Valencia" was heard at 9.42 pm. A few words were spoken between each item, which were repeated, probably the call, but I could not understand it. This station was still going strong at 10.45 p.m. at , A Good Station. ROBABLY the best all-round station received here at the present time is KKW, Bolinas, California, on 21.77 metres. Volume is good, usually R maximum, and yery steady, without any of the surge which is often noticed on short-wave stations. A sponsored programme, featuring Richard Crooks, was well received on ° Tuesday from 8 p.m. till p.m.