Radio doings (Dec 1930-Jun1932)

Page Twenty-six RADIO DOINGS January, 19?! 'RCWND THE DIAL Two New Japanese Stations Our Japanese correspondent, M. Nakamura, whose address is Yamate, Oiso, Kanagawaken, Japan, writes that two new stations have been added to the chain of the Broadcasting Corporation of Japan. They are as follows: Call Location Wave-Length Power JOKK Okayama 429 meters 500 watts JOLK Fukuoha 441 meters 500 watts Three more stations will be added within the next three months. These will be JOOK, Kyoto; JOPK, Shuuoka, and JONK, Nagano. Mr. Nakamura adds that all of the BCJ stations are pleased to receive reports of reception from American listeners. * * * Worth Trying For Here is some information for the "Round the Dial" page. The following stations can usually be picked up after 4 a.m.: WMT ( 600 Kc.) WRUF ( 830 Kc.) WWJ ( 920 Kc.) WJAG (1060 Kc.) KFH (1300 Kc.) KSCJ (1330 Kc.) KMAC (1330 Kc.) KGNF (1430 Kc.) XEB (1095 Kc), XEZ (695 Kc.) and XEM (765 Kc.) may frequently be picked up between 6 and 8 p. m. WCAU (1170 Kc.) has been coming in very good recently between (■ and 9 in the evening. If the weather is very good CFQG (910 Kc.) may be played on Friday from 5:30 to 6 p. m. WFIW (940 Kc.) may be picked up Sunday after KOJN signs off about 11:30 p. m. KGDM (1100 Kc.) can be played daily just before they sign off at 5 o'clock in the evening. WRHM (1250 Kc.) can be picked up daily from 3 to 5 a. m. as during these hours KFOX is off the air. WSAI (1330 Kc.) can be played from 3 to 4 a. m., or until KSCJ comes on. A good catch is WJKS (1360 Kc.) which can be picked up very often on Saturday night after KGER signs off. KGIW (1420 Kc.) may be picked up on Sunday night after KFQU or KGGC signs off. KGKY (1500 Kc.) can be played on Thursday night about midnight. — A. E. Armstrong, 2021 Bonita Drive, Glendale, Calif. * * * From KFI to KFWB to KTBR To those who have not as yet added the two Montana stations to their logs, I have some news. Radio stations KGIR and KGCX are on the air with a frolic program every Sunday morning. KGIR is on 'til 3 a. m. (M.S.T) and KGCX is on from 1 a. m. to 3:30 a. m. (M.S.T.) They both come in very good and are well worth logging. It may be interesting to know that KDYL in Salt Lake City, Utah, is now on the air with a brand new transmitter and when the church stations are not on the air you can get KDYL just as good as KOA or KSL. Here is something else that is interesting to the Los Angeles, DXer. Radio KTBR in Portland, Oregon, purchased their present 500 watt Western Electric transmitter from our own KFWB when they got their increase to 1000 watts. When KTBR got the former KFWB's transmitter they in turn sold their former little 50 watt transmitter to the man ager of KMO and he again in turn took the "little one" to Yakima, Washington. It must be a game. Anyway, KTBR comes in good on Saturday nights. I wonder how many of you DXers have gotten WMBI in Chicago, Illinois. It is on quite a few times during the late evening hours. I got it for the first time on a Saturday night and they signed off at exactly 1 a. m. (C.S.T.) Here's hoping that many of you can catch them for they are not in many logs. WBT on the channel that WMBI has, is coming in fine every evening. Station KVOA in Tucson, Arizona, was recently granted permission to broadcast nights. They now run on 500 watts daytime and 250 watts nighttime. Being on a frequency of 1260 Kc, we may be able to get it some night. I have already received several requests for the information on the Mexican stations and would gladly send more out if requests are received.— George Schmidt, 1642 West 82nd street, Los Angeles, California. (Ed. 'Hote — It is interesting to recall that the original KFWB 500 watt transmitter now used by KTBR was purchased from KFI when they increased to 5000 watts.) * * * More Mexican Data I have some information that I thought might interest some of your readers: I received station CMBC at Havana, 1070 Kc, after WTAM signed off at 10 o'clock. They used a power of 500 watts and came in with fair volume. WGBF can be received on Saturday night after 9:30 or 10:00 o'clock. I played WJAG at 10:30 p. m. on Saturday. They came in good. WMBI can be heard after 8 or 9 o'clock several nights during the week. I have heard them on Monday and Friday nights. WGST, the Georgia Tech station, can be heard after 8 p. m. on Sundays. They come in loud even though they use only 250 watts. KLRA can be heard before 9 p. m. on Sunday evenings. KOY is off the air at this time. Last Saturday I played WGAR in Cleveland between 1 1 and 12 p. m. They use a power of 500 watts and broadcast on a frequency of 1450 Kc. I have quite a hard time trying to identify some of the Mexican stations. Here are the ones that I have received during the past week: XEN, 720 Kc; XEW, 780 Kc; XEJ, 857 Kc; XES, 890 Kc; XEG, 890 Kc; XED, 960 Kc; XEI 1030 or 1040 Kc; XER, 1150 or 1160 Kc — this one did not announce in English but the call letters in Spanish sounded like XER. I also get Spanish stations on 750 Kc, 860 Kc or 870 Kc. and 920 Kc. Can anyone help me out? — Donald Teague, Jr., R. F. D. No. 2, Santa Paula, Calif. * * * I have just attempted to log a station which comes in on WHAM's frequency, 1 150 Kc. It is a Spanish speaking station, broadcasting a dance program of American music. I could not get the call letters, although they announced after every piece. It sounded like HAKI or HAKR. Do you know of any such station? I played them from 10 to 11:15 p. m., when they signed off. -G. E. Tompkins, P. O. Box -84, Las Vegas, Nevada.