The Washington herald., 1922-05-28
CAMP RADIO SETS
PROVIDE MUSIC FOR
SUMMER TOURISTS
Proper Equipment Brings
In Radio Concerts
Nightly.

Radio will increase the pleasures
of the summer vacationist one thou
sand fold. Whether trudging over
rugged mountains, touring by auto
along the Mohawk trail, cruising
between ports on the Atlantic sea-
board. or camping beside the silver
waters of a woodland stream, the
portable radiophone set will detect
and amplify concerts and speeches
broadcasted from stations many
miles distant. No invention in
modern decades has been so /en-
tirely serviceable to the amusement
of man, both as regards quality and
the convenience of carrying about
as the radiophone set of today.
One year ago this statement
would have been idle prophecy
Radio was a term used by operators
at ship and land radio stations who
knew aScode much, as a telegrapher
knows continental. The radio op-
orator received and transmitted
messages by radio. people watched
him do 1t, read the decoded message
and remarked Isn't IT wonderful
The operator placed the phones over
the visitors ears, and explained
what the alternate dots and dashes
.
not every man was an operator.
People were less interested in radio
than they are today in watching a
Western Union telegrapher at a rail-
way terminal He did things they
could not do and had little interest
in doing because IL was work to
deeper the messages.
Today, however. every one who
purchases a radio set is a radio
operator, II he can make the set
work. The transmission of the
human voice and musical pro-
grams without coding or altera-
tion from their original propaga-
tiOn makes this change possible.
In less time than IL requires to
learn to operate the gears on an
day may learn to operate his
receive music from Pittsburgh,
Newark and occasionally from
more powerful stations hundreds
of miles distant. There are on the
market today radiophone sets
which may be operated by pushing
a button, and turning one small
dial lever. The novelty of receiv-
ing music from distant places with
such a set is sufficient reason for
including IL in the campers out
fit Phonograph records are easily
broken in transit, musical instru-
ments are easily injured and II
one Is so unfortunate as to play
the piano only. he may have no
music on the camping trip: Even If
instruments were at hand. who
wants toI bend over keys or strings
on a hot summers night when a lit
tie fidgeting with a radiophone will
bring in music which rivals the bird
songs in the wild wood?
There are los radio broadcasting
stations operating in the United
States. Twenty-eight Of these are
on the Atlantic Seaboard, thirty
1ix in the Middle West, thfrty-six
Ion the Pacific Coast, and five along
Jn> Gulf States Radio waves are
propagated through space In all d.
rections. Hence 10 makes little DIFF
ference whether the vacationist be
forty miles from nowhere, on the
sand .dunes OF Cape Cod, or smiling
the dry air OF the Rockies. he is
missing a large part of his sum-
mer's enjoyment II not equipped
with a radiophone set. OF course,
there will be interference during
the summer months from static. The
air VIII seem NOISY. Inls viii,
however. be more noticeable on hot,
sunny days than on rainy days. The
rainy day which is otherwise good
for nothing except fishing may now
4 be spent pleasurably in camp. Dur
ling the long evening hours particu-
larly. the receiving range of the
set will be greatly increased. Too
much cannot be expected of the
lradiOphone set Reception over nifty