"Round the World on SHORTWAVE

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 8, 2 September 1932, Page 23

"Round the World on SHORTWAVE

Conducted by

F. W.

SELLENS

Short-wave News Empire Station’s Progress. ‘ACCORDING to an English radio journal just. to hand, good progress is being made with the Empire stations in eoutse of erection at Daventry, The roof will be on the station building at Washford Gross by September, so that bad weather will not. delay the installation of the plant, : Work has begun on the masts, which are to be of the metal tubular type, 60. to 80 feet high, and. not wooden as originally intended. " Addressed Programmes. At thé conclusion of a sponsored pro- -* gramme featuring Richard Crookes, tenor, from one of the Californian broadeast stations last Tuesday afternoon, aud which was relayed by KKW, they 4nnounced that the broadcast was "specially addressed for exclusive use by KGU. Honolulu." — Special Broadcast from BAQ. TINH special broadcast for New Zealand whith station BAQ promised for Auyust 25 apparently did not take place. ‘They commenced their regular ptogramme at 11 a.m., as usual, which came in at R38. ‘This increased to R5 by noon, when our programme was timed to start, "but all announcements were made in Spanish after this time; in fact, a long talk in this language was heard sou} after 12.a.m. They closed as usual at 12.30 p.m. Volume toward the conelasion was up to about K8, -with slight gushiness. ~ Arrangements had been made for a relay by 2YA, but as reception was not good enough till near closing down, and the special programme did uot eventuaie, this was not attempted.

Log for Week Ending August 27 ONDI'TIONS have been normal during the past week, with nothing special to report. * RV15, Siberia, 70.1 metres, ‘his. station has: come in well on most evenings up to RY. HVJ, Vatieun City, 50.26 meires, RS-) on Saturday between 6.80 and 6.45 a.m.. with slight static. RV59, Moscow, 50 metres. Yaries, some mornings about R7 at a.im., buf FRE =f LY

Si usually weaker now till 8.30 a.m., after which they are seldom audible. W9XF, Chicago, 49.18 metres. Tues: day and Wednesday, R5 at 4 p.m., to RS by 5 p.m.,-but.spoilt by static, ete. WS8XK, Pitisburgh, 48.86 metres. Very good on Tuesday, being RO at 4! p.m., when they closed down. REN, Moscow, 45.88 metres. R8 ut! 6.45 am. on Saturday, with slight fading. , PRVA, Rio de Janeiro, 31.58 metres. Tuesday, R4 and véry gushy from, 10.30 a.m, till 11 am, VE38ME, Meibourne, 31.55- metres. Wednesday and Saturday, R9 with severe fading as usual. They commence at about 9,80 p.m. OXY, Denmark, 31.51 metres. On Tuesday at 8 am. this, or another stay | tion on this wavelength, was quite good at RG,. with some good music. No call was heard, while reception was so good. On other mornings they were’ only just audible at their best. which is about this time, . W2XAF, Schenectady, 31.45 metres. On Thursday at 9.30 a.m, T tuned in W2XAF as they were opening the station for the day. Volume was only RS, | but readability about 50 per cent. They — faded out soon after till near 2 p.m,, reaching about R&S -by 3.30. p.m. Zeeson, Germany, 31.38 metres. "Still varies quite a lot, but often’ yery good at about 8 a.m. and earlier. WIXAZ, Springfield, 31.35 méetres. Also heard on Thursday morning. at-9.30-a.m., a little better than W2XAPF. Reception during the afternoon is: usualiy good soon after 2 p,m. till.3.380 p.m. VK2ME Sydney. 31.28: metres-Sun-day evening and Monday morning, 29 with severe fading They were on the air again on Saturday from 10 p.m. till 11 p.m., with a telay from-Melbourne of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and a talk in connection with the celebration of Kellog Pact Day. CT1AA, Lisbon, 31,25 metres.-Heard only on Saturday, when they were R3 at a.m. Jipanese, 31 metres (about). -Falk. at R7 on Saturday at 12 p.m, J1AA, Japan, 31.6 metres (about) .- Fach evening from about 9 p,m. or. soon after. talks and music, usually about R8 to RY. . v EAQ Madrid, 30.4. metres.-Dvery day from 11 a.m., uot So’ good now as a few weeks ago, usually R7 ut their best: Radio Colonial, Paris, 25.6 metres..Still coming in well each morning froin soon after 7.30 a.m, till 10.30 a.m. Volume goes off a little soon after 8 a.m. GésSW, Chelmsford, 25.53 metres. Thursday was a little above the average. R4 at 8 am., increasing R7 soon after 9 am. Then down again to Ré till after 10 am., when the B.B.C. Dance Orcliestra, under, the baton of Tlenry Mall, was quite good at RV, Big Ben, was very clear, striking midnight at 10.30 am. The announcements in reference to the next day’s programme and news session was 75 per cent, readable. ‘They closed down at 10.40 a.m. On Monday and Wednesday, at 11° pm, SSW was Ro, but .too gushy to be readable. ‘ 12ZRO, Rome, 25.4 -metres-LEvery. morning at about RG at am.,, to ouiy just audible by 9.80 a.m., fading out soon after, KKW, California, 21.77 metres.Tuesday with the well-known American comedians, Amos and.Andy, from 2.30 p.m. at R9. and a programme for KGU from 3 p.m. ti] 38.80 pam. : . I did uot hear ISIS\W on any other day during the week,