The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-16
PASSENGERS HEAR RADIO CONCERTS
 WHILETRAVELING
L. & N. Railroad InStaIIs Radio Set On Train Running Through City To New
 Orleans
By JACK TURNER

It seems that travelling now days is very near perfect as far as com forts and conveniences are concerned but the Louisville and Nashville rail- road has taken another big step to- wards making the trip on their Pan- American line pleasure to all the passengers.
 They have made up" a special car to experiment with receiving radio broadeasting as they near the various broadcasting stations that the trains pass by,
 This car left Louisville Thursday afternoon at S:30 o'clock, being equipped with radio set made by the Chicago Radio laboratory, which uses the Armstrong feed back circuit. They also used a two-stage audlo- frequency amplifier made by the same company and a Western EIec- tric power amplifier together with Western Electric loud speaker
 The antenna system was changed during the trip which they made to Birmingham en route to New or leans and the aerial now Is 13 wires only IS inches above the top Of the car which is a ground. They nave all the trucks grounded. This IS to make a sure connection at all times
 Results Obtained
 As this set was only installed TOT experimental purposes and IS tne first one they have tried, the results obtained are not as good as what they expect to get when the lm- provements, which they are nnalhs right along are made. one or .he chief Improvements made so Tar TOT catching stations while running, was to mako the aerial non-directiohai so as to make little difference III which direction the train is running
 On the car making the trip to New Orleans is R. R. Hobbs. superlh- tendent of the telegraph system oi the Louisville and Nashville railroaa and his secretary, c. M. Allen. IL W. Burwell, a telephone engineer, IS the operator of this moving statioh' There 1ras always been one passeh- ger representative aboard and Mar shall Haynes of Birmingham accom- panied the party to New Orleans
 Concert Here
 The car arrived In town yesterday morning and special concert Was given yesterday afternoon by Wof for experimenting with this seI Nety good results were obtained While ehs train was under the metal sheu oi the Louisville and Nashville staelon In fact, when the car was at oie evtrenoa end of the station with the 1o,,d sneaker facing toward the crowd that was eager to listen. the niusle could be plainly heard at the op- nosite end of the station in spite oi the noise of the trains.
 There was a large crowd on Tweh- tieth street listening, and when Miss M c. D. Bryant sang, her voice caiie through so beautifully that the crowd applauded .,. .aa,,ts so far had been very satisfactory but there were, of course, some thin > to be worked out yet to make ths receiving for the passengers Jus, right. We heard Louisville, saIo MT. Hobbs, "after we were fo iniles away. When in Gallatin, rem, we listened to Baltimore and St. Loui9 We had very bad conditions Tor ie ceiving at Nashville but we nearu Kansas City and the Atlanta Jun nal"
 Matthew's Program
 Mir Hobbs stated that before ar irving in Birmingham there was no chance to test with WSY. but wniie here and when leaving, and on tne way to New Orleans, the Alapaihe Power company gave special oppor- tunities to test with their station The Matthews afternoon program was received while in the station here' At the Louisville and Nashville sea- ton yesterday afternoon, there were several men from various sources interested as to what the se' would do. MT. OConnell of the Ala hama Power company asked them to join him in a short trip, he Was going to Calera with the car ihe writer was included and gladly con sented to go and though the trip was short, we had fine time,
 We started off with delightiui dinner and had music from WSY al the same time. What more could a person want? Miss George D. Bryant sang a solo at this time also, but al the time the train left the station there was no broadcasting being done. When we got out of town about five miles. however, the pow CT company started sending and we got them very well. It was decided before leaving town that they would send at short intervals and due 10 the many curves and valleys that we went through 1t was easy to lose them. The train was traveling about 40 miles an hour.
 The last time that we heard Bir- mingham before we got off to come back to town was about 2s or So miles from Birmingharm that is for certain. While the train was still at Calera we picked up some music from some station that was not iden- titled while we were there, but II must have been WSY as they were sending them.
 Atlanta Journal was heard just as the train was leaving Calera. MT. Hobbs stated that they were going to install two stages of radio re quency amplification which will pc great improvement on the present