Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1921-08-18
HEARS EN- SING IN KANSAS CITY
Ray Kehler Picks Up Concerts on
His Wireless Telephone


How would you like to sit In your
own home, adjust little instrument,
and listen to concert which Is be-
ing sung In Kansas City or SER
mon which is being preached In
Wichita or a long distance telephone
message which is sent from Catalina
Island to Long Beach?
All those things might be going
on at once and you would have to
take your choice Of entertainments.
That's what Ray Keller does at his
home on West First street with his
wireless telephone.
Since 1916, when he was In the
eighth grade, he has been interested
In wireless telegraphy and has been
operating wireless instrument at
his home. During the war he was OBJ
liged to dismantle his station when
government orders placed ban on
the private wireless. Now, however,
he has his plant complete with the
addition OF a telephone connection
which sends music or voices or any
sound out into the room just as q
Victrola does. A little dial adjust
ment regulates the sending and re-
ceiving distance and the messages
are exchanged by stations which are
attuned to each other. Listening In
on a party line can't hold candle
to tuning in on wireless to hear the
world go round, Mr.. Keller declares.
His shop is in the basement Of his
home and 1t is there that he spends
all his evenings after he is through
his days work at the factory Of the
United Telephone company. 1t is
there that he manages the Keller
Radio Laboratories which retail the
highest grade radio apparatus OBJ
tainable. Mr.. Keller employe q
stenographer and three assistants to
carry on the business Of the labora'
tories. He advertises in the leading
radio magazines and fills orders from
every state In the Union as well as
from many stations in Canada and
he has other customers In Belgium
Switzerland. Holland, Hawaii, Cubi
and France. He has been conduct
ing the laboratories for two years
and his business is growing stead
ily. Most Of his business Is trans
acted by mail now but soon he ex
poets to put in a fairly powerful
tranmitter he says and give sale
talks as does the station in Wichita
| III fnllys tnCt III
would were he present In person, ex
planning the merits Of his goods. IL
an interval between talks 1t Is usual
ly the custom to send out a musica
number.
One of the fascinating thing
about the wireless is that one neve
knows what he is going to get whe
he tunes in, according to Mr.. kehlcl
There Is San Francisco thcatr
which is equipped with wireless
telephone so that all the operator
who care to, may take advantage G
any performance there during tn
wear. A vaudeville performance wa
put on at Annapolis. Nd, this sprin
and sent out over the wireless ht
owing to the states caused by elet
trical disturbance there was to
much cracking In the receivers
hear it here The Kansas City sti
ton has promised the best talent
the city for concerts this winter an
Mr.. Keller plans to turn on his II
strument and work to music duril
winter evenings. Sometimes Il
? states are so bad it is impossible
i. hear. He felt the effect of the Anr
ra Borealis some weeks ago he sa
but did not know the cause until
ready about 1t later. An electric
attracting rod is placed at the sic
of the house to ground lightning
1t should strike.
Mr.. Keller sometimes invites Wis
tors to listen to n concert or Sc
mon In his shop but he Is usual
too busy to bother with visitors al
then he never knows what the ever
inc's entertainment will be until
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