Around and Behind the Dials

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 39, 5 April 1935, Page 39

Around and Behind the Dials

DX CLUB News and Views ~

Latest American Changes: KEE Cannot Verify!: Europeans at Good Volume: Evening Americans Good: VK5SW Heard in New Zealand for First’ Time: Reception Improved: DX Club Meétings for April.

Identification Wanted Station on 1140 k.c., heard from 6.30 to 6.50 p.m. on Saturday, March 16. * and. his Alabama Boys’ were heard several times. At 6.47 p.m. "There §s a Tavern in the Town" was sung by a chorus, and at 6.50 p.m. 4YO interfered and drowned the signals-74I (Opunake),

I gg gg gt) Station on 950 k.¢c., heard on Weduesday. March 20, and Thursday, March 21. at 6.45 p.m., at R7, QSA5. At 6.45 pum on Thursday, a talk jn qa foreign language was heard, and at 6.54 p.m., "By a Waterfall." Also another station, heard on 1110 k.c., at 7 p.m. on same date. Can any dxer tell me if there is a shortwave station with the ealls PHH and PIA?3814W. (Wellington). ' Answers to Correspondents 74T (Opunake): The Winter edition of the "N.Z. Radio Call-Book" wili be on sale jn about ten days. 164A. (Morrinsville): Many thanks for your verification of KF WB and KTM. -314W. (Wellington).

Stations Identified . FVLP. (Christehurch): Your American on 600 k.c. was KIFSD, which relays KFI.-186W (Wellington). F.H.P. (Christchurch): Your station on 600 k.c. is most likely KFSD, San Diego, which is associated with the N.B.C.. and usually relays the same pro grammes as KFI.-9HB (Gisborne). 273A (Matamata): Your station is 2TM Tamworth, .N.S.W., which operates on 1490 k.e. DX Topics Latest American Changes. (THE following American station changes are by courtesy of the "Universalite," official organ of the Universal Radio DX Club FREQUENCIES. 560 k.c., WNOX, Knoxville, Tenn., from 1010. 850 k.e., WESG, Elmira, N.Y., from 1090. 1060 k.c.. WJAC, Johnstown, Penn., from 1810. 1290 k.e, KTRH -Houston, Texas, from 13380. NEW. 1260 I.c., WHIO, Dayton, Ghio, 1000 watts, unlimited. 13810 k.e., Milwaukee,

Wisconsin, 100 watts, day only. 1310 k.e., Lafayette, La., 100 watts, uvlimited. 1420 k.c., Hutchinson, Kansas, 1(¢0 watts, unlimited. 1420 k.c., Pocos, Texas, 100 watts, unlimited. 1500 k.e.,. Hast St. Louis, Illinois, 100 watts, unlimited. CALLS. 1420 k.e., WPRP, Ponco, Puerto Rico, from WMIX. , POWER. 1290 ki.c., KTRH, Houston, Texas, 500 to 1000, night. DELETED. 1250 lic. WHBI, Newark, N.J. MOVED. 1500 I.c., WKEU, from La Grange, Georgia, to Griffin, Georgia. Europeans at Good Volume. VENING Americans seem to’ have arrived with a rush, and Sunday, March 24, was the best for a long’ time. KOA was R8, QSA5, while KNX, KPO, WLW; XEPN., WBBM, XENT, and many others were heard at exceilent strength, KFAC. KDYL. and WCCO were reported to. Veries are to hand from Bucharest, Cologne, and KGMB. Cologne sent a letter completely written in German, so I am not certain whether it is a veri. or not, Duropeans have been yery good, and Lwow, Monte-Ceneri, Munich. Florence, Beromunster, and Bratislava have been reported to. I hope to have a few more away before the season closes. The "Globe Circler" lists the following new stations which will be in operation shortly :- . FreLocation & Call. Power. . quency. Renmark (S.A.), 5BRM. 500 w. 940 k.e. Norfolk Island, 2NI 10w. 1360 k.e., Buenos Aires, LR1 (not given) 1070 k.e. Launceston ....... 10k.w. 6380kK.c, Merida (Yucatan), . XEHZ 1lkw 680 ke. Tia Juana (Mex- , ico), XHFL 5k.w. 1160 ke. -81S. (Invercargiil). Reception Improved. RECEPTION conditions in my locality were excellent on the following dates: February 27 to 29, March 8 to 10, and March 18 to 16. Between these dates tlozens of outside stations were heard at good volume, and reception seems to have greatly improved in all directions, On Mareh 5, KFSD was heard on test at R6, QSA5, and on March 12 the following early morning Americans were heard

DX Club Meetings Auckiand In room 52, 5th floor, Lewis Eady’s Buildings, at 1.45 p.m, on Wednesday, April 10.

H.

SUTCLIFFE

(194A),

Branch Secretary. South Canterbury At the secretary's residence, 35 pom wer St., Timaru, at 8 ‘p.m., n Wednesday, April 10. {

D. N.

ADAMS

(2HO)

Branch Secretary. Wellington . eo ‘ In room 15, 3rd floor, "Dominion" Buildings, Wakefield St., at 8 p.m., .on Tuesday, April 9.

F. J.

REEVES

(157W).

Branch Secretary. Napier The Napier branch of the N.Z. DX Club holds its meetings fortnightly, the second and last Tues. day of’each month, at the club‘room on the premises of the Napier Radio Co., Dickens St., Napier at 7.30 p.m. This branch will hold its first nual general meeting at the Inn Tea Rooms, at 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9, The meeting will be of a social character, songs, supper, etc. A hearty welcome is extended to all present and intending members,

A.

BRIMER

(15IHB `

_ Branch Secretary. Poverty Bay In St, Andrew’s Schoolroom, Cobden St., Gisborne, at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday, ‘April 3.

V. C.

ROTHWELL

(9HB )

er Branch Secretary. ; Manawatu: ‘At 12 Campbell Street; Palm{erston North, at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 12, not Thursday, April 11, as previously announced.

C. J.

MORGAN

(143W.),

Branch Secretary.

at quite good volume: WWVA, KH, KFWB, WHO, CFCN, -KNX, KSL, KTFI, K¥OX, KDYL, KFAC, KGHR, KOA, KMPC, XEPN, WLW, WJJD. Mexicans can be heard any night at 6.45 p.m., the best being XHMO, XHAW, and XELO (1120 k.e.). Although the postman seems to haye lost my address, I have been doing well with new loggings. They are: WOR (on test), KOL, KGBS, WWL_ (on test), Franfurt, Genoa, Radio LL (Paris), Juan-les-Pins, XEMO (Second), XHAW, XELO, KGMB (second), WOXBY (1530 k.e.),, W2XR (1550 ke.), 5MU, 2PN, Canberra (1490 ke), 8WR, Stapleton (fourth), KHLW and Stalino, The Europeans are still too weak to enable me to make any new loggings, but several high-powered ones can be heard between 5 and 6 a,m.---i186W (Weilington). KEE Cannot Verify! Y latest loggings are:-Short-wave: COC, Havana, Cuba; YDA, VK3XJ. W1XK (formerly WIXAZ). American amateurs: W6BDA, W7BIKS, W6HAK, WG6ATM, W9BCG, WG6FLTU, K6CMv, W6HXP, WE6GNR, W6GL, WOULD, W9GLB, W5MS, and 6HAA. Reports out to 4AY, WIXK, ZL2BH, 3BO0, WBZ, WS8XK, KUT, RNH, GSD, KDKA, WC: CO, WHO, FYA, W38XL, W8XAL, PHI, PCJ, and W2XAP, Latest verifications to hand: KERB, :Bolinas, California, two months, and KFI, PExtracts from KEH’s letter are: This will acknowledge re ceipt of your letter dated January 15, 1935, in which you report the interception at 02.27, G.M.T,, on January 1, 1935, of vadiotelephone transmission from station KEE. "The transmission which you inteicepted may have been either addressec programme material or point to point transmission for observation at a specific foreign terminal, In either case it is classified, by international treaty and U.N. law as point to point communication concerning which an obligation of secrecy is imposed, hoth upon us and any chance intercepting listener, "With this in mind you will no doubt appreciate that we may not supply any confirmation of programme material or of messages transmitted by our stations,

Very truly yours,-

L. A.

Briggs

Early evening Americans are coming in well at 6 p.m., my best being KNX, KPO, KFI, WHONR, KOA, WLW, ana KSL,.-a14W. (Wellington). Evening Americans Good. RECEPTION here lately has been patchy, static being very heavy on some nights. In general, Bastern reception has been fair, while early evening Americans have been very good. Some of the first ones to appear are WLW, KMOX, WOAL. WSM, KDKA, followed by KFI, KNX,

koa. KSL, WBBM, KPO, KFOX, WENR, and KOMO. Latest loggings are JOSK, JOOK, KGB, WFAA, KIDW, WBT, WMAQ, CFCI. Verifications received are from JOAK-1, JONK, Poste Parisien, KGHL, KFYR, KARK, WHBL, WHAS (No. 1 stamp), and KMMJ, who sent.an Hkko, a photograph of the station, and a blank order form for H. Johnson Co.’s "Trusty Coffee." -226W (Petone). Americans at Excellent Volume. ID* reception has been excellent during the last fortnight, but in spite of this, new stations are hard to find. American stations have shown a wonderful improvement, and the dial is quite crowded at

7 pm. The best station of them all is XEPN, with KNX coming in a élose second: 1YA has spoilt reception of KFT. WOR, when testing the 50 k.w, transmitter, was received at remarkable volume and clarity of tone. Although 8YA was ‘only a point away from WOR, there was no interference from the former station. Recent loggings are XIX, Mexico City, and the new XELO, on 1110 k.c. Verifications are few and far hetween. A recent one is from WBOQ. With the. verification I received the following letter from Mr. Philip R. Nichole, vice-presi- | dent N.N.R.G. ~ "T was very much pleased and inter(Continued on page 43.)

DX Topics (Continuea from page 40).

ested in your letter, and details as to your location and receiver. You may happen to wonder how I verify reception for the C.B.S. They put on’ the pro‘gramme for our Club at my request, and asked me to take on the job of verifying all reports for them, supplying me with their own paper and envelopes,’ so that the. verifications would be officia:. You may realise what a job it has been when you know that I have had to type-_ write each verification myself, sign it, check the reports with the official log to be sure they were correct, and get them out aS soon as possible, "A personal note. I have been dxing for about three years, using a 9-valye T.R.F., 1929 model, and have at present 722 verifications in my log book, coming from 23 countries. I get a lot of fun dxing, but haven’t. any elaborate layout such as you. My aerial is merely a straight inverted L-wire, 125ft. long and about 380ft. high, "I would be very glad to hear from you at any time ,and later on, after I have caught up on the verifying and have the March 10 programme from WBOQ verified and completed, I shall be glad to send you more complete "dope" on myself and dxing. Thanks again for the very

fihe report. Sincerely yours-

Philip R.

Nichols

V.P., Newark News Radio

Club_ '9

Within the last month I have received four letters from people in France, requesting exchange of postcards, etc. It appears that the names and addresses of all dxers reporting to Strasbourg, are published in the "Strasbourg Radio Journal." One letter was from a priest, and another from a school mistress, so one gets quite a variety in dxing-

Sunny

(Alexandra),

VES5SW Heard in N.Z. For First Time. ONDITIONS for dxing have greatly improved this last month, Americans, Wuropeans, and Australians are coming in at excellent strength, althouzh the Chinese stations have decreased considerably during the last three weeks VK’s are getting back to their winter strength, and quite a few new ones have been heard. Some of my latest loggings are VK’s SRI, 5SL, 5WJ, 5SW, 433, 8TA, 377, 8DW, XHHG, XMHC, XQHA, VUB KIDO, on a DX programme, March 20, XELO, a new Mexican, and 2TM, Tamworth, 1500 k.c., a new Austtalian station. VK5SW stated that he has not yet received any reports from New Zealand. Loggings have been better than verifications, only 2GN and XEMO received back lately.-63S. (Invercargill). Loggings and Verifications. (CONDITION S here are steadily improving, but static, and power noises are severe at times. If these were to decrease there would be some good loggings. Some of the powerful Americans can be heard at 6 p.m,, and at 7 p.m. some of the Mexicans can be heard. Recent loggings are, WFLA, KFRU, WGN, WGBIF, WHAF, WJ%, WMC, WABO, WKY, WWJ, WDAY, and WRC: Verifications to hand lately are from, KFPY, KVOO, KTSA, KFVD, WTMJ,. WGBF, KDKA, KWJJ, KTHS, -and VK2ZF. WTOC sent some interesting information about his station, but he did not send a verification.-28W (Marton). Carry On With the Good Work. NEw ZHALAND must be the keenest DX country in the world,judging from

the reports and acknowledgements heard from Australian radio stations. % In this connection there is a rather ugly rumour abroad that Australian experimental amateur stations are not acknowledging DX reports when stamps or reply coupons are enclosed ‘to cover return postage, ‘I hope this is just an idle rumour, and not an established fact. Having no direct-evidence of DX reports being ignored by amateur stations on test transmissions, all I can say is carry on with the good work, New Zealand DX clubs.-Yours truly, Gilbert S. Hayman (Bronte, N.S.W.).