Log for Week Ending July 16

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

Log for Week Ending July 16

12RC, Rome, 80 metres: Wednesday and Saturday mornings are apparently the. regular schedule for 12RO. Weak. but clear, at 8 a.m. ‘ RV15, Siberia, 70.1 metres: Not quite so constant vow. Good most evenings. but weak at times. RV59, Moscow, 50 metres: Quite good each morning at R8 till 8.80 a.m., sometimes later. W9XF, Chicage, 49.83 metres: Monday. from R6 at 3.80 p.m., to R8-9 by 4 p.m., remaining at this till closing at 5.80 p.m. W3XAL, Boundbrook, 49.18 metres: Sunday only. RS-9 till 4.30 p.m. WSXK, Pittsburgh, 48.86 metres: Tuesday and Saturday, reaching R8-9 "when signing off at 4 p.m. REN, Moscow, 45.88 metres: Monday, RT-S, at 7.45 am., not audible at 7 a.m. Thursday, R4 at 8 am,

.. 82.5 metres (about); A stranger reported under "Strange Stations," "Radio Maroc," Rabat, 32.26 metres:. Monday, RY at 8 am., but spoilt by Morse Q.R.M. PLV, Java, 31.86-metres: Wednesday, R8-9, till about 10:30 p.m., when they closed. On-Thursday this station was calling VK2MQE, but giving their call as PLY, apparently a new call with the same wavelength, VK3ME, Melbourne, 31.55 metres: Wednesday, weaker than usual, with very severe fades. Saturday, from 9.30 p.m. till 11.30 p.m., very good at R9 most of the time, some slight fading. OXY, Denmark, 31.51 metres: Heard every morning, but very weak, R3 at best. W2XAF, Schenectady, 31.48 metres: First audible about midday, increasing slowly to R8-9 by 3.30 p.m. Zeesen, Germany, 31.38 metres: Hach day except Monday; best about 8 a.m.. usually being R8-9, W1XAZ, Springfield, 31.85 metres: 1s not audible quite as early as W2XAF, but "catches up" at about 3 p.m., and is about the same till signing off. VK2ME, Sydney, 31.28 metres: Sunday, both sessions, R9, with some severe fading. Monday, no sign at 7 a.m., but up to R9 by 7.45 a.m. Japanese, 31. metres (about): Tuned in at 9 p.m. on Saturday at RO, what appeared to be a Japanese melodrama. At 9.25 p.m. they closed after either calling or giving the call of JIAA. At the same time, JIAA was going strong on 80.5 metres with a different class cf programme, This 3l-metre Jap. was on again just before midnight. 31 metres (about): "Cuckoo. station," reported in "Strange Stations." JIAA, Japan, 30.5 metres (about).Every evening at good strength, talks and musi¢. EAQ, Madrid, 30.4 metres,-Still ‘coming in quite well each day from 11 a.m. iill 12.30 p.m. Radio Colonial, Paris, 25.63 metres.Every morning at good volume till 10.59 a.m. except on W when changed over to their 25,2-metre wayelength soon after 9 a.m. G5SW, Chelmsford, 25.53 metres,-Not audible much before 8 am., after which time they are often quite good. On Sunday morning "Ambrose and his orchestra" at the Mayfair Hotel, London, with dance music, were very good at R8-7. The session from 11 p.m. is still inaudible early, a Q faint signal is there toward midnig 12R0, Rome, 25.4 metres.-Each morning except when on 80 metres, about R8 between 8 a,m. and 10 a.m. WS8XK, Pittsburg, 25.25 metres.Wednesday from R5 at noon to R8 at 2 p.m., when: they -closed. . About the same on Saturday, closing at 1 p.m, this time. Radio Colonial, "Paris, 25.2 metres.Wednesday, from soon after 9 a.m. till closing with the "Marseillaise" at 10. 25 a.m. R7-8, gushy, not so good as the 25.6metre transmitter.at the same time. KKW, California, 21.77 metres.-Does a lot of testing. often relaying one of the Californian broadcast stations for test purposes, Oceasionally . relays programmes to KGU, Honolulu. Radio, Colonial, Paris, 19.68 metres,--This, the lowest wave transmitter of the French Colonial service,. on Saturday night was inaudible at 11.30 p.m., their opening time, but by midnight was just readable. say about R38. W2XAD, Schenectady, 19.56 metres.Tuescday for a short time at R2.3 at 8.30 a.m. and on Wednesday at 10 a.m., with seveve fading at Rd.