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Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 4, 4 August 1933, Page 37

DURING the recent blizzard, one of the most northerly of the Norwegian broadcasting stations, Bodo, was snowed up for three days, and was compelled to send out an 8.0.8. to obtain food and outside assistance. During that period the announcer carried on by giving the local listeners a transmission of gramophone records interspersed with a "news" bulletin in which he described the living conditions of ‘the imprisoned staff. * te e N a competition in which radio amateurs were to relay the most possible messages from country to country, but in the language of the originating country, a German amateur, D4UAN, Nuremberg, gained 938 points, handling 206 messages. The runnerup gained 428 points with 90 messages. The organisers were "The Ragchewing Club," and there were entrauts from most countries between Finland and the Sahara. * * "THE possibility that the Dmpire may be dotted with relay stations, especially for the ‘reception and distribution of the B.B.C. short-wave transmissions, is suggested by the project for the establishment of a relay. station at Singapore. The original station closed down several years ago,