AROUND AND BEHIND THE DIALS

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 25, 28 December 1934, Page 39

AROUND AND BEHIND THE DIALS

DX CLUB News and Views

American Paper Wants News from N.Z.: KDKA’s, New Studios: Extracts from Verifications: DX Club Meetings for . January.

Identification Wanted American station heard on about 1820 k.c. from 8.47 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, Decembey 14, at R4. At 8.47 a. man sang a song accompanied by an orchestra, and at 8.504 "You Hold My Hand" was played by the orchestra with vocal chorus. At 8.53 an orchestral piece was played, ‘and at 8.56 the number "Don’t Let Your Love Go Wrong," with vocal chorus, At 9.0 station announcements were given out, but due to QRN, the call was not heard properly, although the last letter sounded Jike "W." At 9.0 the station either closed down or faded out, This station was not KFAC which was heard 20 of 30 k.e. below at. R6-7.-‘‘Polando" (Waipawa).

DX Topics American Paper Wants News from N.Z. S I have been appointed N.Z. correspondent to the "Radio News" (U.S.A.), I would be very pleased if members would forward items of interest for publication in the said magazine. Reception and adv ance DX programmes would

be apnreciated

L. W.

Mathie

UHB)

Waipukurau. ‘ KDKA’s New Studios. THE following 1s an excerpt from a letter I received from Mr, J. Stokes of

station KDIKA, Pittsburgh.-

Elgin

(Wanganui).

"By the time you receive this letter we shall have moved to our new studios in the Grant Building, a block or two away from the hotel Wm. Penn. but on the same street, Please advise your Club of this change so that there will be no mistake in sending jn reports of reception. The new studios will take up most of the fourth floor, and will be the most modern studios between New York and Xhicago; there will be six studios for the transmission of programmes and several rehearsal studios, The reason for the removal from the hotel was due to the lack of room for broadcasting facilities and reception of visitors to the studios, "Tf at any time you do not hear both SW transmitters in operation for the DX Club, let me know immediately. The 980, 6140, and 11870 k.c. transmitters are always supposed to be in operation for this programme, so if you notice any discrepancy in this ruling please let me know." Extracts from Verifications. B following are extracts from verifications received recently :- XMHA: "We thank you for your very interesting letter on radio and reception. We are sending you a verification card of the reception of our station. Let-us hear from you again and we shall do better. about

answering next time. We have been having some changes in personnel, and that always affects the whole plant and makes everything a little dilatory. -XMHA, The Call of the Orient, 445 Racecourse Road, Shanghai, China." Frankfurt-am-Main (my first Huropean back) sent a photo of their station and a letter written in German. Poste Parisien-a card showing an aerial, view of the station. Heilsberg, a card. One side shows a striking view of the antenna and station buildings. Alongside my address is written: "I verify that you got parts of our programme, I thank you very much for your kind and very interesting letter. With regard to your aerial, I shall write you soon.-Yours truly, A. Penerkorn, Manager of Heilsberg Radio." EIAR, Milan, sent a letter in Italian, so I am not certain it is a verification. LR8, "Radio Paris," Buenos Aires: "At present we have finished important improvements in our transmitters, so as to get more power-we trust that by this means you will be able to hear us better. We thank you very much for your communications, and shall be very grateful if you, will be so kind as to send us other impressions, which are very important for this broadcasting." . Meseow sent a letter which reads as follows:-"Many thanks for your letter. We are glad to hear that you

DX Club Meetings Wellington In room 15, 3rd floor, Dominion Buildings, Wakefield Street, at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, January 8. ' F. J. REEVES (157W), Branch Secretary. Wanganui The annual meeting of the above branch will be held at 21 Lowther Street, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, January 10. All members are requested to be present as the election of officers, etc., will take place at this meeting. FRANK CARR (150W), Branch Secretary. Hawke’s Bay In the Club rooms at the business premises of Mr. L. Beachen, next Annand’s, Waipukurau, at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 16. Members are reminded that our various trophies will be competed for at this meeting. L. W. MATHIE (1HB.), Branch Secretary. Auckland. ‘In room 52, 5th floor, Lewis Eady’s Buildings, Queen Street; at 7.45 p.m. on. Wednesday, , January 16. A..G. CONCHIE (241A.),. ~ Correspondence Secretary, |

Special DX Programme From WOWO, Indiana WOWO, Fort Wayne, Indiana, advise that they will broadcast a special DX programme for N.Z. listeners on Monday, December 31 from 11.45 p.m. to 12.15 a.m. C.S:T. This corresponds to from 5.45 p.m. till 6.15 pm. N.Z. summer time, on Tuesday, January |. This station operates on a frequency of 1160 k.c. (258.5m.), with a power of 10 k.w.

were able to receive our station. You probably do not know that our station -the Comintern, operating on 1724 m., and simultaneously on 25. m.-broad-casts in Bnglish, and can be received in most distant countries. HDnclosed we are sending you a cutting from our English. newspapér,.‘The Moscow Daily News, dealing with the Comintern station. "Under a separate cover we are sending you a Small souvenir, an album with views of the U.S.S.R.- The U.S.S.R. in Construction.’ Please acknowledge receipt, as books and magazines are sometimes lost on the Way. (The album has not yet arrived.) Hnclosed we are also sending you our programmes for the month, with all the particulars of our broadcasts."-

Sunny

(Alexandra).

500 K.w. Moscow Giant, The cutting from "The Moscow Daily News" is as follows :- "The most,powerful radio broadcasting station in the world-the Moscow. Comintern station, of 500 K.w. power, has completed six months of. service, without a breakdown. Designed: by Soviet engineers and manufactured: in the Leningrad Comintern factory, this station is operated automatically by one person sitting at a control desk. ‘The entire staff of this radio giant, twice as large as the 250 k.w. French station at Luxemburg, consists of five people. "The apparatus is constructed iu five blocks of 100 k.w. capacity each, any one of which may be shut off for repairs at-any time, without interfering with the continuous operation of the station. While it was be‘ing tested the Comintern station sometimes ran for 72 hours without interruption. The principle of blocks, here tried out for the first time, is now be‘ing used in a new broadcasting station in Cincinatti, Ohio. "The broadcasts carry about 9000 km., reaching such distant points as Kamechatha, Vladivostock and, under favourable atmospheric conditions, America. Reception in Irkutsk and Tashkent is reported extremely good at any time of the day or night, while ‘in Burope Comintern programmes may be picked up by the most simple receiving sets." . ; 46 Reports on Special. ONDITIONS have not been of the best lately, owing to very heavy QRN, which makes dxing very difficult, Anerican reception has been excellent lately, while Japanese stations have also been at good volume. Australians are much weaker, and occasionally several VK's are heard. The early morning Amevicans are plentiful, but are hard to log on account of static. Nearly all tie Pacifie stations ean he heard opening bitween 2 and3am. . Latest loggings are KG@GO, CKMO. CKOD (all 100 watts), KFPY (1340.

ke, not 890 k.c.), KTUL, KQW, WMT. KGRS, KPCB, KFEQ. CP4, KINF, ISDGM, CHWC and VK4LW. KFEQ, St. Joseph, was on a test. pro‘gramme on November 24, and CHWC was ol a special DX programme. for CDXR on Sunday, December 16. KFNY was the best heard station on the Iowa specials. CP4, La Paz, was very weak on his special, and being under 42ZM, made it very difficult to get much data. WTAM and KDKA ean be heard up till 9 pm. on Sundays, KPRC (920 k.c.) til 8 pm, and KGDM. Stockton, till 9 p.m. or later on Mondays. The Eastern station on 560 k.c. can be logged with good volume any morning. and must be fairly powerful, as it is stronger than XGOA. I think it is a Japanese, as I believe here are three new 5 k.w. stations opening there soon. Verifications recieved lately are from WJAG, KJR, WPG, XMHA. JOGK. JOLK, JOPK, JORK, Poste Parisieu. and VK’s 3FY. 83HW, 3KB and 5MW. WJAG, Norfolk, stuted that they re ceived 46 New Zealand reports on their special on September 19. Poste Parigien verified very promptly in 11 weeks, Compliments of the season to all dxers. -164A° (Morrinsville). ‘ Advance, DX Specials. THE following DX specials are takea from a copy of tke November issue of "The British Globe Circler,"*Huropean organ of the International Dxers’ Alliance. sent to us by Mr. F. Crowder (810.), of Leeds, Bngland, KFH, Wichita, Kansas will broadcast specials on December 27, January 31. February 28, March 28, and April 24, from 08.15 till 08.45 G.M.T. KFJZ, Fort Worth, Texas, will broadcast specials on January 9 and February 10. from .07 till .08 G.M-T. Dxers should send their reports to Me. Grosvenor, Mid-Co. DX Wxchange Wichita, Kansas,