The evening started off with an exchange of messages between our old friend XU8HW and W7FTT. Not far off, I picked up a quiet, slow voice, hung on like grim death and eventually found it was VK2XS. 2XS said he was in British North Borneo, and this puzzled me. The VK are, of course, the Australian hams, while Borneo has its own letters VS4 I confirmed this later when I picked up VS4CS just as he was closing trict, which is certainly not one! may be interested to learn that Mexico is still adding short wave stations to its already long list. On an official list issued by the Mexican Government the following transmitters have joined the procession: XETA, 11,760 k/cs, in Monterre; XETM, 11,720 kc/s, Villahermosa; and XETW, 6045 kc/s Tampico. With these additions, Mexico has now 24 tations on frequencies between 6,000 and 15,300 kilocycles. Almost as bad as this country—except that we go in for medium wave which technically should not it Our short wave reception.
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