The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-09-09
EVERY ONE on hts
OWN WAVE LENGTH
WHEN OPERATING
Amateurs Uuryed to Consider the
Desires Of Thousands to
Hear Broadcasting
Stations.

With the advent of cooler weather,
which is to bring with 1t tremendous
demands for radio broadcasting, there
is arising certain amount of bitter
feeling against the amateur who either
Is transmitting code or testing his
homemade broadcasting station. n
the larger cities these amateurs are
becoming so numerous and are in
many cases so disregarding the gov
eminent regulations regarding wave
lengths, that they rapidly are becom-
ing hindrances to the thousands of
persons who desire to listen to the
music, lectures, news, etc, being
broadcasted by the larger and more
efficient stations.
Now there is no wgetting away from
the fact that the amateurs have as
much right to operate as have the
broadcasting stations, they have as
much right to fulfill their desires for
pleasure as have tie owners Of re-
ceiving sets and have as much right to
attempt to improve their wor kas have
the more powerful plants. But It must
be remembered by them that there are
government regulations forbidding
them operating on other than certain
wave lengths and that when they VIC
late these regulations the chances are
they are infringing upon the pleasures
Of their neighbors. No one believes any
of the amateurs who are preventing
others enjoying concerts are doing so
Intentionally, and 1t has been proven
that acall on the air or on the wire
phone will result in tn amateur either
returning to his correct wave or stand
ing by until after the close OF the pro-
gram with which he interfering.
Cincinnati this is especially true.
There are few who have been but
tin in" during the concerts broadcast
ed ythe Crosley Manufacturing Com
pany, operators OF the station w l. W,
and on numerous occasions persons
listening in have telephoned to the
Crosley Company. A request that the
operating amateurs be reported to the
government There was a serious
problem faced by W l. W. Persons in
charge OF the station did not desire to
report any amateurs, and still they did
not want to have marred the pleasures
Of the men, women and children who
listen in every time the station opens
up. And so, instead OF sending reports
to Washington. reports which In all
probability would have resulted in the
cancellation ofosome amateurs IL
cense, the following message was
broadcasted
I'VE understand some amateur in or
near Cincinnati, sending code, is oper
aupg on a $50 meter wave and is in
terfering with our concert. The opera
tor doing this either knows he is vio-
lating government regulations, o ris
operating in ignorance OF the fact that
he is far of his own wave. We would
appreciate 1t II this person Will Is OPP
Grating station --, would stand by
until the close OF our concert"
The effect was instantaneous Either
the operator or someone in his station
was listening in, and no sooner had
the message ben broadcasted by W l.
w than the amateur signed of. Now
W L. w has a friend it would not have
had had a different course been pur-
sued. The following day the amateur
operator came to the Crosley Company
with an apology, and never since that
night has a Cincinnati amateur oper-
ated on wive that intereferes With
the music broadcasted by w L w.
TDEE lNTINn TIME