The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-06-22

ment of conditions as indicated
by their rddiophone set.
Radio Editor. Washington Herald:
I have taken notice to several of
the articles you have published
lately in reference to interference
by operators testing sets and there
by causing unnecessary disturb
ances.
You do not state on what wave
this so-called interference is but
go ahead and take a slam at the
spark and low power C. w. sta
lions also the Department of Com
merce for laxity of law and IN
forcement. also accuse operators
of transmitting stations for not
listening in before transmitting
tests.
/ wish to state that I have been
an operator and listener for the
last fifteen years and in no way
can j agree with you.
In the first place the Department
of Commerce is not lax in the en-
forcement of the law nor In there
laxity of law governing what yo
refer to as interference but fr
the consensus of opinion of opera
tors from the Third district (Which
Is matter of radio record in con-
ventions) the radio division of the
Department of Commerce is ham
died in a highly efficient manner
and the chief inspector and his as
sociates are held in the highest
respect and esteem by all radio
operators.
To sum your articles up, 1
think they have been gathered from
certain clique of listeners or radio
Citizen who have very poor re-
ceiving apparatus and are not cap
able of tuning their sets sharp
enough to tune out local inter-
ference due to the lack of knowl-
edge of radio apparatus and poor
advice on the purchase of such sets.
An efficient receiving set has no
trouble of what you refer to in
your articles, in fact NOF the
most powerful station we have in
this district on a wave of 412 met
ers can be tuned out and all the
northern stations brought in with
out any trouble whatever.
II you refer to interference OF
transmitting stations below 800
meters. both of the amateur and
experimental class, you had better
make better use of your columns
and advise the people using such
cheap apparatus to consign such
sets to the rubbish pile, get in line
and get 4 real set that they can
get real enjoyment out of.
When amateurs can work sta
a.
as far as Cuba, west to California,
and east across the Atlantic to
England on 200 to $50 meters when
all the sroadcasting stations are
going and these fellows do not
kick on any QRM or so called
local interference where do you
get your kicks registered from?
The Washington Radio Club has
handled all local matters referring
to interference on lower waves and
has done so in a highly commend
able way and has had the heA-ty
cooperation Of all of its members.
The Department of Commerce, the
A merican Radio Relay League and
I for one compliment them ali for
the good work.
do not believe that you are
justified in publishing the articles
that you have in several Of your
daily issues and had you gone into
the matter in a more thorough way
your articles would have read very
much different.
The attitude taken and published
by The Washington Herald Is far
from an amateur view of the Sit
uation and can only come from the
results of an inefficient receiving
set in the hands of the Radio Citi-
zen badly handled who has burst
forth his angry thoughts from lack
of experience and thought he was
doing the world at large a deed
Of good. instead of buckling down.
as has the average amateur. to get