The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-31

and be sure it is ali right before
you start sending.
We have received our second letter
from J.. ii. Perry who has very
fine set in Coal Valley, Ala. We
are glad to hear from him again and
are also pleased to see that he Is
getting such good results with his
set. He has a fine record to beat
and gives one of the secrets of dis
tant stations in his letter. 1t reads
az followsa
Jack Turner, radio editor, The Age
Herald, Birmingham, Ala.
Dear Sir: Since my last letter, L
have added one stage OF audio-fre-
equency amplification and have re-
ceived eleven new broadcasting sta
lions and six of them are in the state
OF California. One of them is in the
state of Washing ton. l think my luck
in receiving SO many stations to the
west is due to the fact that l walt
so late to start listening In. | have
never heard station on the west
coast before 1870 p. m. or IL p. m.
The eleven new broadcasting stations
are as follows: XII, Sunnyvale, CAL;
XVIII, Los Angeles, CAL; WDAP,
Chicago, H.; sxT, Cincinnati, Ohio;
wLAG, Minneapolis, Mimi; WICK,
Detroit. Mich; WGI, Medford Hill
side, Mass; wKY, Oklahoma city.
Okla; WAX, Okernah, Okla; WOI,
Ames, Iowa; WWI, Dearborn, Mich,
Yours truly, l.. II. PERRY.
We hope the bugs who are anxious
to receive stations at a distance over
a thousand miles will try the ether
at later hours as you know the east
ern stations are on eastern time and
dfvo at a N aa RI "
hour. The western stations are the
only ones over a thousand miles that
we can usually hear and as they
are two hours behind US we cannot
very we'll expect to hear them unless
we stay up later than usual. Some
times we don't really realize the re-
markable distance we are covering
until we think of the difference of
time.
Edward Beatty says IL he sent a
letter to every station he has re-
ceived he would have to use form
letter. Edward isn't the only one in
this condition.
"what'd ia get ?"-'Look wut l
got!'-"Listen t wut I got!' No, the
writer hasn't gone crazy, or at least
isn't aware of it. He is just trying
to give an imitation of some of the
EXPLANATIONS made by the radio bugs
in the past week. Some of them said:
Look wut I got" and others said.
Listen t wut / got!" In some of the
cases it looked much better than 1T
sounded. -.r.
Well, fellows, really. how is the
cid set working? Or that new pair of
phones, or the loud speaker? l am
anxious to start getting all those let
tiers the bugs are going to write as
soon as the sets begin bringing in
some new stations.
Probably next Sunday we will have
several letters that we will receive
from the local and, maybe, out-of-
town bugs. There ought to be some
new records going down in Dots and
Dashes with all these new sets and
parts. Let us hear from you.
Edward Beatty was one OF the
bugs who got a real surprise Christ
mas morning. When he woke up he
found Western Electric power am
plifier in one stocking and the West
ern Electric loud speaker in the other
one. Also a transformer to use with
the amplfier and battery charger.
How is that fellows? This makes
Edward have a real set now. Hesal-
ready had a ticker coil set with II
home made three stage audio FREE
quency amplifier and now he has this
power amplifier outfit that is some
thing. 1t almost runs you out of the
room. We hope Edward has reason
able neighbors or deaf ones. Edward
says: when speaking of power am
plifiers, put the accent on the
.power'"