Evening star., 1925-12-15
FANS TO ENGAGE
IN DIX CONTEST
Program Offers Chance for
Amateurs to Try Out Over
seas Stations.

An American DIX contest which
will be participated In by broadcasting
stations in every State in the Union,
as we'll as by Canadian and Mexican
stations, will be one of the features of
international Radio week, January
"a TO 80, according to announcement
by officials OF the committee who have
charge Of the movement.
The first five nights of the week will
he devoted to international radio
broadcasting tests, American stations
transmitting special programs to over
seas listeners during the hours from
to 10, central standard time; while
American listeners will hear special
programs from overseas stations in
the hours from 10 TO IL, central stand
ard time, when american, Canadian
and Mexican stations remain silent.
How Program Is Arranged.
On Friday. January 90, at the GUS
tomary silent hour a variation in the
plan OF broadcasting will be made and
instead of listening to broadcasters in
Europe. radio fans in the country will
hear for the first 15 minutes of the
silent hour broadCaSting stations in
the Eastern standard time zone.
promptly at the conclusion of the first
. minutes of the silent hour the
Eastern time zone stations will be
silent and broadcaSters in the central
standard time zone will be heard on
The air while stations in all other dis
tricts remain silent The third 15-
minute period of the hour will be de-
voted to stations in the mountain
standard time zone. while the last 10
minutes of the silent hour will be re-
served for Pacific Coast stations, who
expect 10 reach listeners in every
State, with hundreds of thousands of
fans glued to the earpieces. SO.
On Saturday. January so. another
variation of the DN contest will be ar
ranged, and after the conclusion of
the program broadcast from all Amer
lCan stations for the benefit of over
seas listeners. brOadCaStinS stations in
canada viii have the air exclusively
10 themselves during the first Is min
GteS of the silent hour. Sixteen min
Ntes after the silent hour has begun
broadcaSterS in the northern half of
the United States will take up the
broadCasting. While the Canadian sta
lions shut down for the remaining 10
minutes of the test hour. The third
quarter of the hour will be devoted
to stations in the southern half Of the
tnited States, while the last quarter
of the silent hour will bring Mexican
and Cuban stations on the air TO en-
tertain listeners through the entire
American continent.
Prizes TO BE Offered.
Special programs are planned by
broadCaSterS who will participate in
these North American Continent tests.
programs that will permit of the fire.
Quent announcement of call letters so
the fan can rapidly log the DN sta
tions that will possibly he coming
into his receiver for the first time.
Local radio clubs in many cities are
radio week committee, and prizes will
be offered by newspapers and clubs, in
some cases, for the best log arranged
by listeners in their own communities.
A complete log Of the programs
broadcast from overseas will be kept
by the International Radio week com
mittee, and every effort will be made
TO secure also complete logs of Amer
ican broadcasters who are on the air
during the special tests on Friday and
Saturday. Broadcasters participating
have pledged themselves to acknOwl-
edge all reports and claims of recep-
tion from distant fans. and there is
no doubt that many thousands of peo-
pie will hear stations this week that
are normally not in the range of their
sets because of local station inteTfer-
ence.