During recent months, Shanghai short wave listeners have reported excellent reception in the ease of the Christmas broadcast of King George V. his Into Majesty's funeral, the Bmpire Broadcast of King Edward VIII, the World Economic Conference, and Hiller's address at Cologne in' connection with the Plebiscite, while at least one listener, who fortunately speaks German, reports hearing conversation carried on between the Zeppelin Von Hindenburg and. a round station, in which the former Reported its position above Berlin, mentioned that it was carrying a hundred passengers, and in a few words described the scenes spread out below.
When conditions are good, the owner of a short wave set can listen In to simply dozens of "stations all over the world, including London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Oslo, Milan, Lisbon, Madrid and Bound Brook 'The most frequently heard British station is GSP (19.82 metres), which has an output of 15 kilowatts; all the other London stations are heat Jat odd intervals, but the new one at 19.60 metres (GSP) will' be found the best up till 830 am. On the whole, the German stations can be heard' better than the British ones, Jand bre doubly interesting in view Jof the wide use of short wave radio being made by the German government. A reliable winter station is DIA' (3138 metres), while DIB (1944 metres) and' DIQ™ 9.63 metres), the latter in the early after noon, are the best during the summer months.
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