The New York herald., 1922-03-12
Squawks Explained and
Use of Air on Local Option
Plan Suggested.
FAIR PLAY TO ALL, L,SLOGAN
Washington Conference and
Work of Relay League Are
Discussed Fully.

The Radio Show that closed last
night at the Pennsylvania was not
only a startling demonstration to the
world at large of the great popularity
into which air communication has
Ieaped, but it was also a meeting place
where the two rival schools of wire
less fans. experts and theorists could
get together and discuss the basis for
an understanding OF their problems.
TO the outsider who reads occasion
ally of radio activities but has never
ciamped on a headpiece, and to whom
CIV means nothing, an radio fans are
of one species, but to the illuminate
within the growing circle they are no
more alike than the bulls and the
bears of War Street or, the Ulster
Orangemen and the Free, Staters of
Ireland. One of the big services rem
dered by the Radio Show was to jam
the, two species of radio fans together
into one tight mass and let them see
receivers and wireless telegraph send
ers are human beings.
Heretofore, the radio telephone re-
ceiver has regarded the wireless tele-
graph sender as merely q disgusting
series Of unintelligible squawlSs in the
midst of his aerial concerts. while the
wireless telegraph sender has regarded
the radio telephone receiver as an un-
reasonable intruder who not only in
tfrided but wanted the original user of
the ether muffled or otherwise silenced.
5s Forced Conference Call.
This decided difference OF opinion was
one OF the principal reasons why Presi-
dent Harding was compelled TO call a
conference on a new code OF radio laws
at Washington. and to summon TO the
capital some OF the beet known radio
men In the country, including DR.. Alfred
N. Goldsmith, secretary OF the Institute
cf Radio Engineers and research engineer
Of the. Radio Corporation of America
Prof. G. NJ Jansky, Jr., of the Univer-
Bity OF Minnesota; Hiram Percy Maxim,
president OF the American Radio Relay
League, and Prof j.. A. Hazelt!ne OF
Stevens Institute. The situation was
made acute by the tremendous boom in
the popularity OF the broadcasted con-
certs and lectures since last autumn.
1ctFor many years before the radio teie-
phone became of any practical value
hundreds and then thousands of radio
enthusiasts filled the air with their tel
egrapn codes. They were the original
wireless amateurs. the sourdoughs OF
the ether. Consequently. when the nov
ices who did not send but merely list
ened In on radio telephone broadcasts,
got into the game some hard feeling de-
veloped.
That unfriendly feeling was expressed
thus by one radio telephone novice who
voiced his grievanceat the show: t
D when start tuning In so that the
boy can hear the bedtime stories as a
bribe to go to bed without fussing. along
comes wild tumble or squeaks and
general uproar that sounds as IL II came
straight from Russia. 1t impinges on
the eardrums OF my son with such ve-
hemence that all desire for sleep leaves
him instantly. After VIC have convinced
him IL was not a goblin that was
threatening him and put him to bed my
wife and / are startled by some re-
inerlably inappropriate interruptions TO
the Holy City And so 1t goes"
N On the other hand. the amateur radio
telegraph operator protests that he Is
not responsible for many Of the inter-
ruptions; that ships at sea, broad tun-
Ing on cheap receiving sets and static
are more often to blame. and. moreover,
the amateur telegrapher did much to de-
vclop radio to the stage where radio
telephony became possible. and that II
was the amateur teiegrapher who IN
time Of war stepped into the army and
navy and kept Uncle Sans communi-
cation service UP to the other rapidly
expanding branches OF military war
fare.
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Relay Leagues Good work.
The American Radio Relay League,
Which Is represented at tho Washington
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