BITS ABOUT BROADCASTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 195, 19 July 1939, Page 3

BITS ABOUT BROADCASTS.

NEW BOSTON TRANSMITTER. WIXAR UNDER TEST. (By "Microphone.") Another new call sign lias made its appearance on the short-wave bands, though it is not likely that it will remain for any length of time. Giving the call WIXAR, a transmitter is reported by Australian listeners to be operating under test at various periods, utilising the frequency of WIXAL on 25.57 metres, 11.73 m.e. This is the new station concerning which information was published in tins column some months ago on the authority of the World-Wide Broadcasting Foundation. Boston, the owners of the popular WIXAL "Dedicated to Enlightenment'' educational station. It was then stated that plans were in train for the building of a new and up-to-date station, but the appearance of the transmitter is the first news on the project for some time. _ From United States sources it is learned that the new station is operating under a permit to radiate 20,000 watts and that tests are being made on both 11.73 and 15.13 m.e., or 10. G metres. Australians report that announcements have been made over the air that the waves to be used will be 25.15 (11.79 m.e.) and 25.6 metres. On the latter wave it has been heard between 12.30 and 3.30 p.m. New Zealand time, but the regular schedule is said to he from 7.45 a.m. to 11 a.m. Undoubtedly reports would be welcomed by the foundation, whose address is University Club, Boston, Massachusetts. WIXAL has for some time been giving a fine service, particularly in the morning hours with non-advertising programmes of a marked cultural trend. All reports are verified, and test transmissions are usually made on 11.73, 11.79, 15.13, 13.25 and 2J.IG m.e, the sec-