The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-06-29
SAUk CENTRE BOY
A RADIO PIONEER
BORGMANN HAS A
COMPLETE SENDING AND
RECEIVING SET
HALVERSON HAS ''BUG"
MESSAGES FROM EXTREMELY
LONG DISTANCE PICKED UP
IN THIS CITY

Sank Centre is not claiming that it.
Will develop into radio broadcasting
station nor that it will have more.
rejoicing sets per capita than any
other place but the radio bug is how
ering over quite few local people.
and has settled on at least one or.
two.
Raymond A. Borgmann (Radio g.
B-Y-Y) son of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
K. Borgmann is the pioneer in the.
radio field in Sank Centre. AS long
as two years ago he built and used.
his first radio outfit after he had
spent good deal of time and study
on the subject. Raymond says that.
he has been interested in electricity
and electrical experiments ever since
he has been able to do any thinking
for himself. He has the only send
ing station in Sank Centre and the
first one in this section of the state.
He explained the operation of his
sending apparatus in the following,
manner: 1t is tapped onto two dy-
manic current lines then passes.
through high circuit main contro
switch key and is shunted by two
high resistance Goo OHM connect
ing back preventors then enters the
primary coil of. the simplifying
transformer and leaves the second
airy coil at 1900 volts and is brought
to maximum efficiency by condens-
or. The high tension is then cut by
rotary spark-gap and goes.
through an OSCILLATION transformer
1t leaves the ossculation transformer
in the form of electric OSCILLATION at
100000 volts and goes to the aerial.
These oscillations leave the aerial
Immediately and go to the ground
and in doing so throw an electro
magnetic wave through the air which
is the wave caught by any receiving
station in tune to and within range
of the message transmitted.
Raymondys apparatus is rated at
500 watts and should be heard for
200 miles under ordinary conditions.
This sending apparatus is for code
only and differs distinctly from the
sending outfit necessary for transmit
ting phone messages. It is young
Borgmann's plan to install 10 watt
radio phone sending station early
this fall.
"9-B-Y-Y" in radio terms means
Raymond A. Bergman in plain Engs
lish as this is the radio call on either
phone or code assigned to him by
his government license from WASH
ington, D. C. In order to obtain a
government iscense it is necessary
the applicant pass an examination to
prove that he is capable of handling
the apparatus and safeguard against
his interfering with other radio OPP
erations. While Borgmann's send-
outfit is not in class with the Twin
Cities broad casting stations or with
some of the apparatus installed in
several of Minnesota colleges, it is
much better than the average amat-
uer outfit.
The young mans receiving set is
really the most wonderful part OF
his outfit. 1t is home built and
what is called a regerative set con-
sisting of a honey comb coil Turning
panel and two stage amplifiers, cap
able of receiving wave lengths from
$50 up to 10000 leaders.
On Thursday of last week the writ
er heard W-G-G-4 (which is big
commercial station in New York)
calling FL (Which is Eiffel Tower,
Paris, France) and it was possible
with Raymond's outfit to tune this call
as clearly as if it had been sent from
a station only a few miles away. This
was code call not a radio phone
The receiving outfit is
capable of receiving either code OF
phone messages but under some adj
justments will receive code over a
great distance, or phone will receive
much farther than code.
The receiving ability of Ray
mond's outfit is greatly increased and
in fact the wide area covered is
made possible by the fact that his
apparatus includes set Of honey
comb coils which makes it possible
for him to load the wave to different
eng tbs and the coil condenses across
t. His present battery equipment
consists OF one storage and two dry
as follows:
A is volt storage battery which
S used like the ailments Of the de-
.ector and simplifying tubes. B Is
.2s volt dry cell battery connected