Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-03-09

days, among close to 100 messages,
are some from these various points:
Arlington, Texas, Reading, Pa, Fall
River, Mass, Fremont. Neb.. Portland,
Maine, Hamilton, Ontario, Danbury,
Conn.,. Hornell and Rutherford, New
York, Cleveland, Ohio, and from Okla
homa, Colorado, Alabama. Among rad
iographers everywhere obviously ex-
lists a sympathetic bond, and all APP
pear happy to pass on words OF en-
couragement to others.
At the university station in the
basement of the physics building an
ordinary small copper wire leads to
the roof where IL is extended hori-
zontally a few rods, from one angle
Of the building to another. There is
no tower whatever for antenna,-only
. this lateral wire; and when communi-
cations are photographed forth, as for
instance the market reports from IL
to 1918 daily except Sunday, the
operator merely reads the data into
an ordinary telephone and the voice
waves, vastly energized by a scientific
device at hand, pass to the roof wire
whence they instantly escape into
space. That wire does not respond
with the least discernable vibration,
nor IL finger were laid upon il could
there be felt even the most delicate
tremori
Here is what is now happening
regularly at the university station
and, while it is really momentous, in
truth it merely is the vaguest sug-
gestion of what the future of this as
founding science is to offer:
Daily Except Sunday
IL to 1915 p. m.-Market report.
1920 to 1890 p. m.-Weather for
cast for Wisconsin.
1890 to 1885 p. m. Special notices
and announcements. On Saturdays,
announcement of broadcasting pro-
gram for the following week.
1883 to p. incorrect time given.
Friday
s to S:45 p. m.-Radio concert phono-
graph and special features.
S:45 to 8:50-Program for following
week announced
Saturday
LOS to 1:25 p. Mcclure on radio
subjects; music.
intercollegiate News Exchange
Monday, 10 to IL p. m.-News rad
iod from other universities.
Midnight to a. m.-Tuesday, broad
cast distribution.
Wednesday 10 to IL p. m. Tests and
experimental message traffic with
amateurs.
Frequently additional features are
sent out, such as local concerts by
famous artists or by university must
cal organizations, lectures, speeches
and reports of athletic contests.
OF general interest are the accur-
ate time signals sent our twice daily
by the high powered station at Wash
ington, as well as by the station at
Great Lakes, ILL.,, and by other naval
stations. Press news, commercial
sh.p and shore traffic and amateur
messages are overheard by radio oper-
ators, great and small-the greater
the wider the range OF information &C
cessible. The daylight transmissable
range of the Madison station is now
about 200 miles, but at night distances
as far as the Pacific coast soon will
be reached. Then, later, as limited be-
fore, the limit may be the circum-
ference of the globe. II is now in con-
temptation to add important legisla-
tive news to the service for the 400
and more receiving stations that now
take weather, markets, time, occa-
sionally a speech, frequently music.
The free distribution of news by
wireless telephone broadcasting sta
tions is giving many newspaper pub
fishers food for thought At present
the instruments for receiving these
messages are more or less of p novel
ty but what the result on the news
papers will be when receiving wireless
sets become more popular and in
many million homes is what publish
ers are wondering. There are some
100000 radio receivers in use in the
United States today whereas there
were only 10000 year ago, and they
probably will mount to four or FIVE
millions in the next year or so. Can
one imagine the consequences when