The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-14
BRINGING RADIO
TO LATEST STAGE
Power Amplifier and Loud Speaking 2
Device to Be Added to High
School Equipment to Be
Used for Public Affairs

Radio receiving equipment in the
Humboldt county high school is to
be brought to the highest point of
efficiency developed by experts of
the air-conveying waves, according
to Principal ]. d. Scott, by the ad-
dition of a power tone amplifier and
loud speaking Magnavox, which will
make the music broadcasted through
the air distinctly audible to all of
those who may gather in the high
school auditorium for dancing or
other purposes. Of the success of
the plan there is not the slightest
doubt, the instructor states.
During recent days the arial wires,
which catch the magic sounds as
they are broadcasted from the vari-
Gus stations speckled about the ma
tion, have been moved to a position
over the high school auditorium,
with the lead-in wires to the back
of the stage. Other receiving equip
ment has been moved from the
manual training rooms to one of
the dressing rooms on the stage, so
that when the work is completed
concerts, news reports, vaudeville
programs, and all other features
now a regular daily part of the
broadcasting services, may be avail
able in the large auditorium, to be
enjoyed at public functions. Some
of the equipment, including the
Magnavox, is expected to arrive
here during the coming week and
will be installed Immediately upon
arrival. Professor Scott says that
dancing to the wireless music will
easily be accomplished.
With Walter Harms of the Bell
Telephone transcontinental relay
station in this city manipulating the
tuning mechanism it has been pos
sible during recent days to "pick
up" broadcasting stations at San
Francisco, Los Angeles and San
Diego, California; Portland Oregon;
Seattle. Washington, and one
In British Columbia. Catalina
Island, in the Pacific ocean, has
furnished enjoyable concerts and
to the east Salt Lake City, Denver,
Kansas City and a station at Sche-
nectady, New York, and one in
Texas, have been heard. Without
the equipment soon to be received,
however, it has been necessary to
use ear phones, similar to those used
with telephones, to hear the sounds.
With the new equipment the tones
will come in louder than the ordi-
nary phonograph and can be "step-
ped up" to an ear-splitting degree,
it is said.
The broadcasting services consist
of many interesting varieties. For
instance, early in the evening the
Los Angeles Times will broadcast
bedtime stories for children, with
occasional musical numbers by
younger folk and calculated to ap-
peal to the tastes of children bound
for bed. During the morning hours
there are talks for housewives,
musical concerts during meal hours,
or perhaps that which may be con-
sidered most desirable is the broad
casting of latest national and in
ternational news reports, by the
San Diego Union or some other
station. One feature highly en-
joyed are the jazz orchestra con-
certs of the Hotel Portland orches-
ira, broadcasted by the Portland
Oregonian, which are certainly the
last word in modern dance music.
Once in awhile a vaudeville pro-
gram, as it is enacted in a large
theatre, is broadcasted in its COM
pleteness, and it is possible to hear
even the applause of the audience.