Short-wave News

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 16, 28 October 1932, Page 23

Short-wave News

Empire Station Testing. G>swv was testing lave on Wednesaay: night, volume and clarity being sv good that the several listeners who reported reception of this test, felt certain that it was the new Empire station being tried out, The wave length was given as 25.78 metres a trifle higher than 5SW’s usual wave, but one: listener said they were a little lower, about the same as 12RO, Hach were. certain that never before had the call, "G5SW" been so clear and loud

in ‘Wellington. The writer missed this test, but made a point of staying up later the next two nights with the hope of hearing something worth while. However, nothing was heard except a strong carrier, which might be GBSW or another station near its frequency. Empire Recording, AND lines have been specially laid be= tween the B.B.C. studios at Broad« casting House. and the recording studios of the Gramophone, Company, for the making of records for Empire distribution. Special events will be recorded by the Blattnerphone process, and then wax discs made from the steel tape for distribution. The International Radio Forum. TAvr MURIBL PAGHET is the London representative of the newly formed International Radio Forum. Several talks arranged by this "Radio Forum" have been heard in New Zealand from. England, America and France. .In England these Sunday talks by prominent people, take place in a B.B.C. studio. The speech is transmitted _ to America on the beam: "wireless, and, if the Bitish listener desires to "tune in," he rust try for one of the American sho ave relay stations, hearing the talk after it has crossed the Atlantic both ways. The time to listen in New Zeaiand for the International ‘Radio Forum talks is on Monday morning, somewhere between 8am, and 10.a.m. Reception conditions at the present time are not favourable during these houts, but wil] be again a little later in the season. : Reception in Bay of Plenty. { «ME. A, A. HASSAN (Otakiri) reports hearing W4XD, 49.5 metres at good volume on several ‘afternoons, This is, I beljeve, the first definite .report of in New Zealand. | Generally, short wave reception in the Bay of Plenty is, at the present time, below the average. However, 12RO, Rome, and the 5Q-metre Americans are very good. G5SW is not asa role received at all well in thie district, and my correspondent

is, like a good many. of us, looking forward to our Empire station with great hopes for really ‘good reception from Home, ; _ My. Hassan reports that a new station, _ W2XBI, New Jersey, relays to Germany every second Friday of the month on | 20.49 metres. | '

Radio Serviceman’s Exam. ENTRIES for the next Radio Serviceman’s Examination close. with the Registrar, No. & The ‘Terrace, Wellington, on October 31, 1932. The examination’ will be held on December 2. Entry forms may be obtained. from thé Registrar, or from the Secretary, N.Z. Radio Institute, Box 1134, Wellington.