The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
RAY ). OWE TELLS
 OF FURTHER TRIALS
Puts On a Second Step and Gets Plenty of
 Static

You remember that last week our friend, Ray D, Owe. put a one-step on that set of his and this week he made 1t two From his experience last time in installing that amplifier he got through with this one little sooner and made heater job. The dining room did look a little better and if one looked around real well for while they might by some chance or other recognize it is a dining room and that was better than last time
 Ray isn't so slow now. as he brought the materials home for that second stage a little after 12 one day and had the old two-step hooked up and operating on that 3:30 con cert ot the Matthews Electric com pany.
 was over at Rays one night re- gently and l told him I wanted to see what that two-step would do m the way of bringing 'em in all over the room. Well, he smiled like he knew he could do it and l told him wanted to tell you bugs" how his set worked with the new tube.
 lie hooked in another pair Of phones and we got settled down all ready for a few good concerts. Ray threw on the switch for the "A battery, but the filaments failed to even look like they wanted to light. After several looks In the cabinet he aiseoVered the trouble and he pushed the plug in the one-stage. Static came In beautifully and he put it on the second stage. I thought my ear turns would pop as it sounded like someone was beating on the phones With a hamnRr e satisfaction of making my ears hurt ana had shown me that the old two step did work, he turned out one bulb ana put It back on just one stage. We heard Atlanta and Kansas City and houston, Tex, that is, those are the ones that l heard the fellows say they were. You see a lot of timee We would get in some station and Just about the time the selection was over Ray would make it real weat 80 when the fellow came to announce Who IL was we couldn't understand nm. Then Ray would yell out so that l could hear him with the phones on, mat 1t was some station about a thousand miles away When I would say that l couldn't understand the fellow that was talking Ray would blame 1t on the phones. stating that his Were more sensitive and he could near what l couldn't. Anyway, l Know we got those that 1 mentioned and we would have gotten more if 1t hadn't been for the fact that the
 battery kicked the bucket" and we had to put the old phone plug n tho detector jack and turn out the other bulb as it burned as weak as seven days.
 l asked Ray what would be his rar ot.f sIfsx et.t- and he said he was financially em- barrassed. or in other words he was as he said. "out O jack"
 lie did say, though, as soon as he could scrape around and get some he was going to build one stage of radio-frequency. This will be a big step, even though it is just one step, as it 1t will almost double the distance of his receiving radius.
 Ray said that he was going to in- vent something 10 save the women lot of trouble. He said that when every one of them got hold of little gossip they couldn't wait to call up Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Smith and all the rest until the last one was reached. Ray said that he was working on q cheap broadeasting sta- ton which could be easily Installed in each one of the ladies' homes and instead of having to call each one to tell them the news they could just broadcast 1t once and every one would hear it. He said that he knew yoang lady, Miss Anne Tenna, who nearly became exhausted every time she had to call so many times and he was sure he could sell her one Of these new devices.
 Kay tells me that the other afterS F.I. burg tkDKA), but fellows, tha Is what he told me; I wasn't there.
 That map Ray Is marking every time he hears new station fs eet