Station CQN, which used to be on 29.70 metres, is now CRY9, Macao, and has adopted the 3113 metres (9.504 me/s) channel; its power has been increased to a %4-kilowatt. A programme is given daily between 12.20-13.30 Shanghai time and announcements are in Portuguese, English, French and Chinese To "Enquirer"
During the week, received a telephone call from a local listener who wanted to make sure that the daily short-wave programmes published by the orth-China" are in local time; some one had apparently tried to convince th were in British Standard ime, or something. The programmes are compiled from various sourd the times given to me by the respective stations being in Greenwich Mean Time, Tokyo time, Central European ime, Eastern Australian Time and Eastern Standard Time (United States), To give all these various times in the paper each day would prove most confuse ing, and so—and here's the great secret—yours truly each day converts them all to "Shanghai Time."
And so, in that column, 14.30 means 2.30 p.m. in Shanghai, and so on!
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