The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-10-22

phlS. rem; W HAS, Louisville, Ny, Detroit News, Detroit. Mich; KDKA- Pittsburg, Pa; WAAG, Shreveport, La; wAAC. Tulane, New Orleans, La; WGY. Schenectady, N. Y: WIZ, Newark, N. J.. WISE, Atlanta, Ga; wGM, Atlanta; VIDAL, College Park, Ga; KSD, Post Dispatch, St. Louis, Mo; wAAP. Wichita, Kas.; Cincfn- natl, O.; WLW, Fort Worth Record; WPA, Fort Worth, Tex; Dallas News. Dallas. Tex: Some Telephone Co, Havana. Cuba (could not understand the language), all during the past month.
 On different occasions l have heard both of the local stations without ground or aerial, and on one oc- casion heard Davenport. la, without my aerial. Frequently l will turn the switch off on my filament during the local broadca sting, and simply throw the switch back and come in on someone on the outside; by that I mean, one time I was tuned with boat from New Orleans to the .anal, which sent message to WS9 and later WSY (the next night) sent hlm as service. Also, frequently l will be tuned so that l can adjust the grio variometer one way or the other ana have two or three stations, not nov ing anything else, and have them very plain.
 This being strictly homemade set, am rather proud of it, and have not said anything about 1t until some of the other. bugs begin. to brag about what they got with theirs, and then I just had to say something to yindicate my homemade outfit.
 am not particular as to whether or not YOU publish this, but want somebody to know that they are not the only ones who have homemade outfits that get something once in while. say, six or eight different sta- tiens every night. Yours for very se'ee''Ne '' ANNE JENNA. ;.
 Birmingham, October 15, 1922.
 Anv sentence with worlds rec ord" is interesting. Any sentence with Birmingham in it is interesting, so here is one that is very interest ing. Edward Bosticlx, 1516 Sixteenth avenue. south, now Mas the distinc- ton of holding the worlds record for distance receiving with a crystal detector set.
 The following letter was received by Edward Bostick: Dear Sir.-I wish to thank. you for your letter of October 6 in which you report having received station WWJ's late program on Thursday evening, October ]. This Is indeed very excellent work. We have been receiving reports of these concerts from all over the United States, but I believe you hold the worlds record for that concert, received on crys- tai detector set.
 I will enclose q standing schedule of this station, and hope that You may be able to hear more of our concerts, and if so, that you will 80 always give some titles of the selections for verification, as you did last time.
 With very best wishes, yours very truly, HOWARD F.. CAMPBELL, :
 Chief Radio Engineer, the Detroit News.
 Besides this station out of town, Edward has received the following stations, using only small crystal detector set. rated at radius of 25 miles:
 Fort Worth, Tex; Houston. Tex; Atlanta, Ga; College Park, Ga; Kansas City. Mo; Wichita. Kans.: Louisville. Ky; Cincinnati; Daven- port, Iowa; Jefferson City. Mo-; and the local stations. He states that when WAC is, sending they can be heard very faintly 26 feet from the phones.
 This set, which is all home made. consists of a two-slide tuning coil. condenser, galena detector using only one phone.
 This is indeed record to be proud of and we are not expecting to hear from a better one soon. However. if anyone is lucky enough to obtain anywhere near such re- suits. let us hear from you Reading from the Radio World we find that the inventor of this won- derful thing, radio predicts the con trolling of weather by radio It will be quite convenient to call up the | weather man and just say. 'Cut off the rain for littl while, we want to have a picnic" 1 Joe Morris, i47 Fifty-eirhth street. north. tells mo that he has short wave set using q tickler coll Among the many stations which he has heard with this set are: KDEA. l Pittsburg; WEAY, Houston, Texas; Davenport, Iowa, and Kansas City. Mo. Joe made this set himself and !s contemplating the cons truction of a 1 two-stage audio frequency ampli- fer to use in connection with the present set. He also states that he iss going to start on . 10-watt trans-
 hitter after he has passed examins