The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-10-18
TWO MOSCOW BOYS. ]
ARE GAINING FAME
JACK WOODWORTH AND KEN
METH HOUSE OPERATE Sue
CESSFUL RADIO STATION.


son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jay Woodwork,
and Kenneth House, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. D. House, are attracting more
than passing attention as the build
ers and operators of a radio station,
which has developed into one of the
most important among the amateur
radio stations of the west, and forms
the principal connecting link between
the Pacific coast and the east. The
story of the development of this radio
station, which is now thoroughly
equipped, has more than touch Of
personal interest in it. The boys,
while in high school, before the war
started, as inseparable friends, gave
vent to their interest in wireless
telegraphy, by establishing a station,
with somewhat crude equipment,
which they gradually developed, un-
til they were picking up signals from
other stations at a considerable dis
tance. When war was declared they,
with all other amateur operators,
were compelled to dismantle their
plant. AS soon as the war was over,
however, they took the work up again
and now, as students in the electrical
engineering department of the Uni
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the station to a high point of eff
cheney, through added knowledge and
better equipment. Recently they
erected new tower at their station in
the northwest part Of town, near the
new water tank. The tower newly
erected is 100 feet high and the water
tank is used for the second tower.
The boys have a complete one-kilo-
watt transmitting equipment and
complete receiver for short waves
The signals from this station have
been heard as far east as Rochester,
New York, and as far south as the
Panama canal zone. Ship stations in
the Pacific have picked up their sig
nails. In turn, the local radio station
has picked up signals from amateur
stations in New York, from Roswell,
New Mexico, from Chicago and from
San Diego, in southern California.
The two amateur radio operators
are members of the American Radio
Relay league, the largest Organ1za-
ton of citizen radios in the world,
forming chain across the country
and relaying messages through to al
most any point in the United States.
The league is incorporated and has
hree trunk lines, the Moscow station
being on the northern line. The sta
ion has relayed as high as 800 mes,
'ages in one month.
The station operated by Messrs.
and House is a special Ii
.ensed amateur station, of which
here are only few in the northwest,
his being one of the principal sta
ions among those in the northwest,
With twice the usual wave length.
The license is granted by the govern
nent commissioner of navigation, at
D. G.
The Moscow boys are able to inter-
ept messages from all the large
government and naval stations in the
United States. They received the news
rom the world series and the Car
fight. The boys are
sually at the station between eight
and nine o'clock each evening. Re-
emily they have been giving inter
,sted Moscow citizens the privilege of
earring the musical concerts broad
asted by radiophone from the Fair
Mount hotel at San Francisco, and
asting from eight until nine o'clock.
'hese concerts are broadcaSted Mon
ay, Thursday and Saturday evenings y
f each week.
The boys will be glad to give any
Interested Moscow citizens the novel
rivilege of listening to these con-
ertS by wireless, but because OF the
mall station, in which not more than
our or five persons can be accom-
nodated at once, they ask that per-
ons wishing to hear the concerts,
lake arrangements with them in adj
ance Messrs. Woodwork and House
re also glad to accommodate any
ocal persons by relaying messages
Or them.
Coupled with natural aptitude for
he work, fostered by a continuous
tudy of magazines and books dealing
rih the subject, the boys have reach
d a point where either would be
BILE to take charge of any radio sta
on. The work. taken up as hobby
y two high school boys, finally de-
armined their course in the higher
EDUCATIONAL institution, and, unless
leir present plans are changed, has
cen the means of mapping out their
fe'S career.