Around and Behind the Dials

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 35, 8 March 1935, Page 45

Around and Behind the Dials

DX CLUB News and Views.

Weekly DX Programmes: Extracts From Verifications: 157 Stations Logged in Two Months: New Mexican XELO?: Conditions _Improved: .Latest Loggings: DX Club. Meetings for March. -~ --

Addresses & Addresses Wanted A.P. (Wellington): KET, Bolinas, California. It is an experimental ‘station and operates: on 31.65 metres, 9.47 meg. "All Wave" (Otago): WGHXB: Portable. J. I.) Keysor, 218 H Street, Sait Lake City, Utab.

Answers to Correspondents J.W.L. (Dunedin): Your’ suggestion has been noted and will be carried out when space permits. Meanwhile you should find the. list of shortwave stations contained in the. "N Z. Radio Call-Book" of great assistance. Lt is obtainable from all booksellers or direct from P,0. Box 1680; price 1/1 posted, Identification Wanted , ' American station on 780 k.c., heard at 7.23 pm. on Thursday, February 21. One item I heard was, "No, No, a Thousand Times No." another American on 950 k.e.; heard at 7.40 p.m. on the same

date.-

A.

P.

(Wellington).

Stations. Identified A.P. (Wellington): KNRA: is the call of the schooner Seth Parker, The master broadcasts experiences of the cruise for the N.B.C. sO DX Topics Weekly. DX Programmes. "THE following stations broadcast :weekly DX programmes at the times given (N.Z.8.T.). . CF QC, Saskatoon, Sask., 840 k.c., 1 k.w. Every Saturday, 5 to 5.30 p.m.’ CKCK, Regina, Sask, 1010 k.c., 500w. Hyery Saturday, 5 vo 5.15 p.m. Vancouver, B.C., 1010: k.c., 100w. Every Sunday, 8 to 9.30 p.m. CKOV, Kelowna, B.C., 630 k.c., 100w. Every Sunday, 8.30 to 9.80 p.m: WRC, Washington, D.C., 950 -k.c., 500w. Bvery Sunday, 6.45 to 7.45 p.m. WHEF, Kosciusko, Miss., 1500 k.c.,, 100 w. . Every Tuesday, 9 to 12 p.m. CMBC, Havana, Guba, 1035 k.c. Every Tuesday,6 to7T p.m. — oO The new WOR, Newark, N.J., using a power of .50 k.w. on 710, k.¢., is coming through well here now, though 3YA interteres rather badly. . ‘ A good news builetin is given every

night from KNX. "The Voice of Hollywood," commencing at 7.30 p.m. It is a little too light yet for the "Richfield Reporter" to be heard from 5.45 to 6 p.m.

Orer KFL

N.

Jenkins

Masterton

Extracts from Verifications. RN has been extremely severe lately, and at the moment of writing these notes, 2.30 p.m., QRN is spoiling reception of LYA, so one can.guess what it is like at night. The stations are there, but I ean only listen with @ifficulty to the ‘higher powered ones.. As for. getting small powered ones, such as 100 watters, well it is impossible here, yet a dxer who lives about 50 miles away, as the crow flies, tells me he is logging 100 and even 50 watters right in the heart of U.S.A. . All stations, Australians, Americans, Buropeans, and Chinese, are coming in well, and I would advise dxers to go right after these. I myself. am not dxing at time .of these notes, except to try them out. Recent verifications include the fol. lowing with extracts from’ same:Monte Ceneri: "Your obseryations are correct and- verially agree with our log. " i . . Montpelier: "Your date, time, and items agree with our. transmission ~ for that date. We send you our distinguished salutations." Riga verifies my second report, KXA: "We are pleased to verify your report. Thank you for writing." KOTN: "Your report makes the eighth _ we have received from New Zealand, and we are always very glad to hear from all of you. The other reports have been received from Dunedin, Timaru, and another place I cannot recall. Your report proved both clear and correct, We always verify the reports that’ are correct"!

DX Club Meetings -- Auckland In room 52, Jth floor, ‘Lewis Eady’s Buildings; Queen Street, at 7:45 p.m, on Wednesday, March 13. A. G. CONCHIE (241A.), Correspondence Secretary. South Canterbury At the secretary’s residence, 35. Bowker St., Timaru, at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 13. D. N. ADAMS (2H.Q.), Branch Secretary. : Napier The Napier branch of the N.Z. DX .Club holds its meetings fortnightly, the second and last Tuesday of each month, at the clubroom on the. corner of Faraday and Carlyle Streets, Napier, at 0 p.m. A. BRIMER (151H.B.),_ Branch Secretary. Wanganui At 21 Lowther St., at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 14. FRANK CARR (150W. ), Branch. Secretary. Poverty Bay © In St. ‘Andrew's schoolroom, Cobden St, Gisborne, at 7.30 p-m, on Wednesday, March 13. Members please note alteration of date. V. C. ROTHWELL (9H.B.) Branch Secretary. ‘Manawatu At 157 Bryant St., Palmerston North, at 8 p.m, on Thursday, March 14. C. J. MORGAN (143W.), Branch Secretary. © Hawke’s Bay At the premises of Mr. L, Beachen, next Annand’s, Waipukurau, at 7.30 p.m., on Wednes: day,: March 13. ° L. W. MATHIE (1H.B.). Branch Secretary.

Special DX Broadcast From WNAX, South Dakota ) WNAX., Yankton, South Dakota, will broadcast a special programme for the N.Z. DX Club from 12 midnight to 12.30 a.m. N.Z. Summer Time, on Tuesday, March 19. WNAX operates on 570 k.c. (526m.) with a power of 1 k.w. .

J. M.

TODD

(216W.), {I

Palmerston North:

KGHL: "This confirms your receptioa of KGHL. Kia Orato you." Wvidently he knows a little about New Zealand. KOH: "This verifies your reception." The last two were cards, and very good ones -too. I was asked to allow myself to be nominated for the Advisory Board, but have declined. I recently received a letter from 4AY who say they had a mishap on the night of the special, and had to use hay wire, but tried to make amends by shouting into the "mike." He also says he will be increasing his power by four in the near

future.-

Digger

(Cambridge).

-157 Stations Logged in Two Months. i Y latest loggings are KET, KMPC, WBBM, KGMB, XDPNT, W8XAL, W3XL, and KWU. My latest verification is from VPD, Suva, Fiji. Reports are out to KFI (2nd), WSXK, RNB, WBZ, GSD, W1IXAZ, KEE, KDKA, W3XAL, FYA, and W2XAB. My total logging for two months is 157. My receiver is a six-valve commercial, ali-

wave set.-

A.

P.

(Wellington).

Conditions Improved. (CONDITIONS in my locality are showing improvement. The Americans are beginning to appear again from 7.30 p.m, A few can be heard at fair volume, namely, KFI, KPO, KFOX, KHJ, WBBM, KTM and KOA. Others are still too weak to be logged. WCCO was heard on its Sunday morning special programme at good strength. They gave out that CFCN was now using its new transmitter. Reception from Australian 50-watters ‘has been good. My latest verifications are from Nyiregyhaza (Hungary). Breslau . (Germany), Keivy (Russia), which has changed its call sign from HURA5 to BURW)D, XENT, KROW, WDAY, KELW, KSTP and KDYL. My overdue stations are WSB, KPOF, XEBC, Belgrade, Prague, XHHH, XHHX, XHHV, XHHC. XHHB, XHHJ, VK7DR, 3BK, 4LW and 3WR. Postage was enclosed with all reports. My receiver is a seven-valye commercia] a.c. superhet; aerial 120ft. east and west.-186W. (Wellington). Latest Loggings, M* latest loggings are: WSAN (1440 ke), CKTP, WCCO, WHDF, WLEY, WOR, and WBBM. Verifieations to hand are: ZBW (Hong Kong). WCBA, CKWX (who will welcome re-., ports from Club members), and KMTR. Conditions down here are very bad, noise from power leaks prevails over signals. Receiver in use is.a 6-valve all-wave commercial superhet. ; aerial L type, 30ft. NE-

SW

Lofty

(Chzistchurc).

New Mexican XELO? HE only reports 1 have sent lately are to WOR and KDB. Other stations I have heard at fair strength are KGMB, KDYL, KFVD and KYOD, as well as the usual high-powered Americans, ; Verifications to nand this month are from KSTP (6 months), WJJD,:WDAS, KFNF and WBOQ. The verification from WBOQ mentions that this station will present a DX programme for the Newark News Radio Club on. Sunday, March 10, from 8.30 to 9.30 p.m., New Zealand summer time, 149 H.B. tells me that there is a new Mexican station; XHLO, on 660 k.c., operated in conjunction with XEPN, hoth of these. stations being on the air. from 5.0 p.m. until 8.0 a.m, C.S.T.-9HB (Gisborne),

yINCE the French Government has been charging licence fees for radio receivers, the public has grown more and more critical of Fretich prosrammes: the main charges, so far, are that the programmes show "parsimony and lack of imagination." — HERE is a story about. the new American broadcasting headquarters, Radio City, New York. None of the staff is allowed to give information or to. answer questions. A very important English visitor was inspecting the place, and got lost in the’ maze. He knew the rules about asking questions, so he waited patiently till he saw a page-boy, and he said to the page-boy: "Can you show me the way to the inquiry desk?" . "Sorry, sir," the boy said, "we can’t answer questions; ' you'll have to ask at the inquiry desk."