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FRANCIS DASHIELL CARLETON LORD RAY LAROCQUE Technical Broadcast Shortwave CONTENTS PAGE Cover Girl-Elaine Kent LEAVES FROM A DXER's SCRAPBOOK, by Count De Veries 4 DXER'S PICTURE GALLERY 9 HIGH FREQUENCY GLOBE TROTTING, by Ray LaRocque 10 SWL TRADING POST 18 WHEN RADIOS SEE SPOTS, by Francis Dashiell 19 ACROSS THE EDITOR'S DESK 24 THIS AND THAT IN THE DX WORLD, by Carleton Lord 26 STATICLESS RADIO 38 AMONG THE CLUBS 39 HAM HOUNDING, by "Hugh Huntem" 40 STATION NEWS OF THE MONTH 46 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, by Francis Dashiell 47 S. W. STATIONS AND TWENTY STENTORS 49 APPLICATIONS TO THE FCC 52 MONTH'S CHANGES IN STATION DATA 54 See Subscription Plank on Page 96. Published monthly except July and August by THE RADEX PUBLISHING CO. 362 Cedar Lane Teaneck, New Jersey Subscriptions in the United States and Possessio,,s and in Canada, $1.75 per year; all other countries, $2.25 per year. Single copies, 25 cents. Entered as second-class matter Aug. 30, 1938, at the Post Office at Teaneck, N. J., under the Act of March 3, 1879; additional entry as second-class matter at Passaic, N. J. All manuscripts submitted are at the authors' risk, and will not be returned unless accompanied by sufficient postage. Copyright 1939, by the Rader Publishing Co., 362 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, N. J. PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. FOR SALE AT YOUR NEWSSTAND RADEX 3 Special After -Midnight Frequency Monitoring Schedules (OTHER THAN F.C.C. FREQUENCY CHECKS) Station Frequency City and State Date Time (E.S.T.) KTSA 550 K.C. San Antonio, Texas 1st Monday of Month 1:00 to 1:15 AM KFGQ 1370 K.C. Boone, Iowa 1st Monday of Month 2:30 to 3:00 AM WBBZ 1200 K.C. Ponca City, Okla. lst Monday of Month 6:00 to 6:30 AM KLAH 1210 K.C. Carlsbad, New Mexico 1st Tuesday of Month 5:00 to 5:30 AM KAND 1310 K.C. Corsicana, Texas 1st Tuesday of Month 5:15 to 5:45 AM KWOS 1310 K.C. Jefferson City, Mo. 1st Wednesday of Month 2:00 to 2:30 AM WSAU 1370 K.C. Wausau, Wisconsin 1st Wednesday of Month 2:30 to 2:45 AM KPAB 1500 K.C. Laredo, Texas. 1st Wednesday of Month 2:30 to 3:00 AM WAVE 940 K.C. Louisville, Ky. 1st Thursday of Month 1:30 to 1:45 AM KNOW 1500 K.C. Austin, Texas. 1st Thursday of Month 1:45 to 2:15 AM KTRI 1420 K.C. Sioux City, Iowa. 1st Thursday of Month 2:00 to 2:30 AM WGRC 1370 K.C. New Albany, Indiana. 1st Thursday of Month 2:30 to 3:00 AM WACO 1420 K.C. Waco, Texas. 1st Friday of Month 1:45 to 2:15 AM KGFI 1500 K.C. Brownsville, Texas Ist Friday of Month 2:00 to 2:30 AM KIUN 1420 K.C. Pecos, Texas. 1st Friday of Month 2:30 to 3:00 AM KEUB 1420 K.C. Price, Utah. 1st Saturday of Month 2:00 to 2:30 AM KSAL 1500 K.C. Salina, Kansas. 1st Saturday of Month 2:30 to 3:00 AM KWOC 1310 K.C. Poplar Bluff, Mo. On Sunday Morning pre- ceeding 2nd Tuesday of every Month. 2:00 to 2:30 AM WPAY 1370 K.C. Portsmouth, Ohio On 1st Day of Month 4:00 to 4:30 AM KTEM 1370 K.C. Temple, Texas. On 5th Day of Month 3:00 to 3:30 AM KVGB 1370 K.C. Great Bend, Kansas On 7th Day of Month 3:00 to 3:20 AM WPAD 1420 K.C. Paducah, Kentucky. On 7th Day of Month. 3:00 to 3:30 AM WTAQ 1330 K.C. Green Bay, Wis. 2nd Tuesday of Month 4:15to4:30AM WCAZ 1070 K.C. Carthage, Illinois. 2nd Saturday of Month 3:30 to 4:00 AM KWBG 1420 K.C. Hutchinson, Kansas. 1st and 3rd Wednesday 6:30 to 7.00 AM KGFW 1310 K.C. Kearney, Nebraska. On 15th and 29th of Mo. 2:00 to 2:30 AM KBIX 1500 K.C. Muskogee, Oklahoma. 4th Saturday of Month. 5:00 to 5:15 AM WLAP 1420 K.C. Lexington, Kentucky. On last Friday of Month. 2:00 to 2:30 AM WSUI 880 K.C. Iowa City, Iowa. On Wed. Morning pre- ceeding 1st Saturday of every Month, Foreign reception is a wonderful the limits of foreign DX. And KHJ thing-particularly on the broadcast and KFI were still mighty good band. Ask any DXer you know, and catches for any man's log. he'll tell you it's sure a great thrill However, little by little, foreign re- when you can dig down in the kilo- ception began to be a more or less cycles and come up with a Frenchie accepted fact. Not an everyday occur- or an Aussie in one hand, and have rence, mind you, but something which the other hand free for writing down might happen once a year, if the a lot of stuff for a verifiable report.