Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-16
"TELLINC THE WORLD"
BY RADIO MESSAGES
Daily Letter by Frederic j. HaskiI

news from the great Nauen station
near Berlin or from the big British
plant in the Welsh hills nea Carnar-
Won to Deal Beach, New Brunswick
or Arlington in this country. That
makes you realize the = enormous
power of the radio"
Small Sets Cover 100 Miles.
Most of the radio sets sold to priv
ate individuals possess a guaranteed
range of 100 miles, which is sufficient
to let the owners in on the regular
commercial programs, but which ex-
cludes them from intercontinental
conversation. Fortunately for the
dignity of international diplomacy. 1t
requires a couple of hundred foot
steel towers, several feet
of copper wire and a hundred thous-
and watts or SO Of electric energy to
talk to Europe. Amateurs are re-
stricted to 200 meter wave-lengths
or less. and are under the supervision
of a radio inspector whose business
is to see that they confine their oper-
atoms to short distances only. Never
theless, when the great trans-Atlan-
tic tests were made by American,
English, and Scotch amateurs on the
memorable night of December 4,
1 ICSlt LILO COuC 0i6ldio VI q v aAiASA IL
: Americans, most of them using home
made equipment, were distinctly
heard in Scotland.
The acquisition of the usual ANA
teur radio receiving station is a very
simple matter. You can have m
Installed in your home for the sum
of $35 up to $3.50, depending upon
the possibility of unreasonable OPP
position from your landlord, who is
apt to look upon the aerial antennae
as an eyesore and as a fire menace,
but this difficulty Is likely to be elm
mated as the landlords themselves
become converts to the radio sport.
Although the equipment may have
it's drawbacks as a roof ornament,
there is positively no danger from
fire, say the experts, il the wires are
properly installed.
Sending sets are not quite so easy
to acquire and operate. n opera
tor must be able to read a certain
number of words of the international
Communication code. so that he may
understand any preparatory COM
mand to get off the air" from the
big coastal wireless stations. This
command will be heard whenever
there is an S. o. S. call from a ship
at sea. In such an event, it is up to
the amateur operator to quit trans
hitting, but he need not refrain from
listening to the messages as the work
Of rescue gets under way.
Amateur Senders Limited.
eat present" says a radio expert,
mo amateur may send on more than
a 200 meter wave length, o is he
permitted to develop more than one
kilowatt of power. He is the lowest
in the scale, and if anywhere in the
neighborhood, he can no more inter-
rupt the 360-meter wave length
broadcasting concert or the 1000 to
$4,000 meter wave length trans-At-
lantic wireless than the buzzing of a
mosquito can drown out the roar or
a subway express train."
Although still in its infancy, the
radio telephone is already playing an
important as well as somewhat spec
tacular part in our everyday life. 1t
is the agent by which the Bureau OF
Markets of the Department of Agri-
culture daily broadcasts its crop,
weather and market news through
out the country. 1t is the narrator
Of bedtime stories to thousands OF
sleepy children. The United States
Public Health Service uses it to
broadcast two lectures on health
every week. 1t Is providing a large
and eager audience for Sunday SER
mons such as has never been enjoy
ed by ministers of the gospel before.
1t has been known to lull a baby to
sleep with its music and to carry the
sound OF jazz so clearly to a vessel
at sea that the passengers were able
to dance. Most newspapers now give
the nightly radio programs a con-
spicuous place in their columns. and
one large New York daily devotes an
entire page in its Sunday issue to
radio news. There are nine maya
zines devoted to radio, and a long list
of books.
Yet the rise of radio has just be-
gun. Think of what it will be doing
ten years from now when all OBJ
stacles will have been removed, and
lit will be as easy to talk to Paris as
it now is to phone downtown. The
common telephone. by connecting us
only too efficiently with the world,
ih>- o1~ooSu dootroved the cOmfOrt-