LATEST NEWS FROM CUBAN OFFICIAL

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 28, 23 December 1938, Page 39

LATEST NEWS FROM CUBAN OFFICIAL

EH are in receipt of a further letter from Richard F Rabio «DX 120 0), Cuban Representative of the N.Z. DX Club, giving the latest station news from his part of the world. Ail times are given in Eastern Standard Time (U.8.A.) which is the official time for Cuba. He writes:"With the apnroach of autumn, dxing conditions have improved 2 little, especially at night-time, with peak reception after midnight. During daytime no great progress can be made. The 20metre band seems to be the best, providing gocd signals after midnight. Paris Mondiaie seems to be the best in the 25 metres, rolling in at RS. 40 metres CW is fairly good, also the 75-metre phone. My best log last month was VR6AY. We have had plenty of rain and storms, and we were hearly struck py the eyclone, which destroyed many towns in Connecticut, U.S.A. "The following are the "hams* heard during last month: VK3PH, VK8ZX%, VK4BB, VK4JU, VK4TH,

VK4VD, VKS5STR, J5CC, JTCR, ZStAJ, ZSCED, ZSSAW, VS2AL, PK2WL, PKIVY, PAOMZ, XZ2DX, VU2LL, XU6TL, KA1IJZ, KAIFH, KAIZL,. ON4BG, G3DO, G5GS, K6RPAB, KOSKGA, W2IXY, VP3AA, PYIRF, CEH1AO, CE3BK, YV1IAP, YV5ABY, HC1IJW, LU4PB, LU4FG and XW1iGF, "COCQ, Cuba, is roaming around apparently looking for a definite channel. Last week they were on $.68 m.c., and this week they have been on 9.695 m.c. Two new Cuban stations will open secon: one at Santa Clara, owned and operated by Manuel Alvarez. The other at Holguin, and is testing on 6195 k.c, at night time. "LRA, Argentine, ‘Radio del Estado’ is using the call LRAL. They sent a special programme for America on September 2 at 4.30 p.m. "Radio Sofia, at Sofia, Bulgaria, which usea to be on 14,918 is testing on 8,445 k.c. around 5.00_ p.m. "Radio Suomi at Lahti, Finland, is on 11,785 k.c., using the call OFE. Heard at 4.57 pm. with

announcements in Finnish and Swedish. Reports are weleomed by the Finnish Broadcasting Company, Helsinki, Finland. "Station SBP at Motala, Sweden, is heard here Weduesday and Saturday evenings from 8.00 to $.00 p.m. on a frequency of 11,700 k.c., where it is heterodyned by HP5A of Panama. Those who are not looking for programme value but enough deta to send a report, will be sure to hear the opeting announcement which is the only occasion when English is heard. Correct reports are welcome, and must be sent to Motala Rundradiostation, Motala, Sweden, ‘ "TIGPEL at Sun Jose, Costa Rica, on 5825 k.c«, is heard now from 7.00 to 9.00 am. in addition to their resular schedule. Station TI4NRH at Heredia, Costa Rica, on 9,670 I.c, is heard as late as 11.80 p.m. talking to his happy owner Amando Cespedes Marin, who is in U.S.A. The station is operated by Cespedes’s son Amandito, who is very well acquainted among the Latin American "hams." "Station COKG, Imisoras Grau at Santiago de Cuba, Oriente, Cuba, request reports on their transmission on 8,920 k.ec. (33.50 m.) and promise to reply promptly. QRA: P.O. Box 1387, Santiago de Cuba, Oriente, Cuba."

ate playback, as they are so easily damaged, and a special type of aluminium dise with a coating of cortlose material is, therefore, used. NOW that Nottingham has its own studio it is understood chat the BBC is turning its attention to the erection of a 5-k.w. transmitter to serve Notts, Lincolnshire and Hast Anglia generally. The original intention as to erect a relay station at Norwich, but the projected station will probably be further inland. Search for a suitable site may begin in the autumn, and by ‘the summer of 1939+ work should have begun on the station. ‘RHE City of Leeds School for Blind and Deaf has recently been equipped with a special system of hearing aid. The chief feature of this apparatus is thet the children live in a complete "sound" atmosphere while using it. Hach of the twelve children wear specially constructed adjustable-reed type headphones with, on the table around which they sit, a microphone by means of which they can hear their own and other children’s voices. AN experimental one-metre wireless telephone connection hetween Mindhoven and Tilburg has been installed by Philips in collaboration with the Dutch National Post, Telephone and Telegraph Service. The Yagi tyne of aerial, | which has an amplification of 3.5

compared with a single dipole, is used for the transmitters and receivers at both ends. The aerials, consisting of a number of parailel rods set up in one plane, include an energised radiator, a reflector and a series of directors. It has been found by experiment that, when working on such a short wavelength, an imaginary line drawn between the transmitting and receiving aerials must be 10 metres above the tops of the trees and buildings in its path, Triode transmitters and autodyne superhet reeé¢ivers are used at both stations. THE intricate organisation at modern merine airports is il'ustrated by the fact that Imperial Airways has installed ultra-short-wave apparatus on the launches which act as tenders to their flying boats at the shore control stations in order to send last-minute instrietions to the tenders when at a distance from the shore. Echo-sound-ing apparatus is also installed on some of the motor launches to facilitate the location of submerged obstructions when patrolling waters prior to the alighting of a flying boat. FTERR HITLER, determined to increase the number of registered listeners in Austria (now standing at 600,000), has ordered that all listeners whose income is below a certain level shall be exempt from radio taxation.