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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-06-26
REPORTS Theft of Purse

A thief entered the room Of T. E.
Morgan. 300 North New Jersey street,
yesterday. Morgan said the prowler
took a purse containing $45 and notes
worth 1925.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-06-26
BLUEGRASS NOT NATIVE
Charm Imported From
Old World. Say Experts.

WASHINGTON, June 26.-Contra-
~ to popular belief, Kentucky blue
as is not a native of the United
- "a. but was brought over from the
,4J<<rprld by early colonists, accord
|. -. ~ = <,ekhe Department OF Agricul-
8 3, 8 : & 6 - <S 9sortant hay grass cul-
~ <knited States is sail
VI ~; <;5iYe e:frs< grows throughout
;7,<<33<z z 49, the United States
}. = -. <7f E@454A the cotton belt
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New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Trouble May Be in Battery

Queet!on--I have b short-wave regener-
ative receiver, including Two variometers
AND one varocoupler using an audr!otron
cor detector, with one-step ampliher
bined grid condenser (.o005 mfd.D and grid
leak Il Meg.) but do not hear even tele-
graph signals except when L place my fll,-
ger and thumb across the terminals of the
grid ccndenser and leak. | have tried a
second grid condenser and leak in serle.
with the first. and also a grid condenser
without 3 grid leak. but with no better
result. Will YOU please suggest some rem.
edy?-J, Is. il
Answer-Assuming that all of your
connections are correct, it would seem
to me that the trouble lies in the fact
that your battery connections must be
reversed. The plate "B" battery should
have the positive terminal Joined next
to the plate. The negative terminal. Of
course, is Joined back to the "a" bat
terry Now. all that you have to do is
to try first with the negative pole of
the "B" battery onto the positive pole
of the "a" battery and then if you do
not get any results try it on the mega
tive side. 1t seems to me, that your
trouble lies there.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Radio Terms Stump Court
and Halt LITIGATION

BOSTON, April 21.--The first radio
litigation to come before the Boston
courts went on trial before Judge
O'Connell and a jury in The Suffolk
superior court late to-day, and aroused,
first interest and then bcwilderment,
when highly technical terms were
broadcast about the courtroom
The suit was brought by Lloyd
Green, of Everett, against the Radio
Time Service, Inc, of Boston, for re-
covery of 1926 FOR work done. Green
stated he was contracted with by the
defendant to devise and develop loop
antennae and other apparatus for the
receipt of time signals from the Airing
ton, Va, government station without
the use of outdoor antennae.
On the stand, Mr.. Green plunged into
mass of radio phras ology which
puzzled judge, jury and counsel to the
extent that the court requested Mr..
Green to explain just what was meant
by antennae of both the plain and loop
variety. radio activity. ether and the
like. Four o'clock came before the
messages were decoded, and Judge
O'Connell ordered a postponement
until Monday to give the jury chance
to study radio technicalities,
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Receiving Set for 2 Bank

Questior-Couid you give ,ns some Idea
OF the proper equipment Il bank would need
for installing a set from which they could
receive market rel orts ard other infornla :
tor Tor the pleasure ana profit Of their
depositors "A. D. r.
Answer-A great deal will depend
upon two factors: First, the building
itself, and second, the distance from,
the nearest broadcasting station. In
order to get good results I would
suggest that you use in each case a
regenerative receiver with q vacuum
tube detcctor and two stages of ampli-
fication. The latter should be so CON
structed that the transformers, which
are in the audio-frcquency simplifying
section of the equipment will stand
the voltage used with two 5-watt power
amplihers. In other words, about 100
volts on the plate circuit. AS there is
very little current with this voltage
the $50 volts can be obtained By means
of this specia! type "B" battery dry
cell, which come in units of % 1-2 volts
each. For the purpose of advertising
this of course would have to have 8
loud speaker, and the equipment would
cost in the neighborhood Of $3.50 OF
$500 complete.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Retail Association Requests
Mark on Radio APPARATUS

The investigating committee of the
National Retail Dry Goods Association,
at meeting Thursday afternoon in
this city, adopted the following reso-
luton:
That all responsible manufacturers
be requested to standardiZe the eff
cheney Of their various receiving sets
and plainly mark on each instrument
the receiving radius under average at
mospheric conditions.'
: Such a step taken by reputable man
ufacturers, it is believed. will have the
effect of making the amateur purchaser
of radio set understand what can be
expected Of the particular type of in
strument that he buys. Such action
should also have the effect of bringing
an improvement in the efficiency of all
such instruments.
The investigating committee believes
that all efforts possible should be put
forth to conserve the confidence of the
public in the radio telephone at this
time while the demand is still new, IN
order that the business may develop
steadily without serious setback.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Correct Coils to Use

Question: have triple g.arsd. honey
COMP type, regenerative receiver cas- pub
lsAed in Issue OF April y coils-pri,n.
IS; sec s5, .ickier 90 in series. with
wire,, IS feet hish. or lead-in I"e : feet,
.est, and the instrument is grounded. This
nigh power broadcast!ng stations come in
with VIZ. WGY, M. KDOW at 200 miles
OFF ambrose, but it Is hard TO tune in the
lower-powered stations. and they do not
come @conle in very Clear: Examples: WOE
NNZ, WIN and VINO. Would higher
Plate voltage help? am now using 22'a
switching from lsi2 volt 10 successive
steps till I reach last tap. | would add
a az, "a volt block il it would not iajure
ticker col! help? In replacing variable
condenser Tor q hxed one, which would
be the more efficient one, the phone or
grid "A G..
Answer would not advise you to
use more than IA volts on the wv
zoo detector tube. What 7 would sur-
gest is that YOU put the thirty-tve coil
III the primary and the twenty-five coil
IN the secondary and then try another
thirty-tive in the ticker circuit. |
think this may improve matters quite
little. | do not quite understand
your question about replacing var-
able condenser. If You have in mind
placing fixed condenser across one of
the honeycomb coils, / would strongly
advise against it, because a condenser
is the only means that YOU have of
varying those oscillatirg circuits, since
the honeycomb soils themselves are
of fixed value.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Making q Vario-Coupier

Question: sm going to construct . "a.
cctving station with q range Of 100 70
100 meters or thoreabouts. Please answer
tne following questions and oblige: J.
What size vario-coupler should be n..d /,
,, What size ticltler (to be adtnstsd ~
taps on'y) should I use? 2. What ,,zs
Sariaose condenser shall use: 4. IL a
coupler the better? Please give all n"cas-
sary information concerning sixe OF ,y,rc
NUMBER or turns, etc. required ON the
cons D. An audion detector is going to
Answer-A vario-coupler for this
purpose should be woun,f on a four
inch diameter tube in such manner
that you have 150 turns of No. "a
covered magnet wire. These turns
should be tapped individually for the
first. ten taps and then each subse
quent ten taps. The first group of ten
taps should be connected with a
switch and the second group of taps
to another switch, in order to enable
you TO bring i'll any particular mum
Der of turns into the primary circuit.
The secondary should be wound on a
three-lnch tube and this tube should
be SO arranged that it can be complete
ly turned around inside of the primary
tube. 1t should have upon it as MANY
turns of No. % D. S. C. wire as can
be placed within q winding two inches
VIDE. A ,005 mid. variable condenser
should be connected across the sec
ondary for tuning purposes. The tick
Ter coil should be wound on the
primary tube, using the same sized
wire as the primary and having abou.
NIFTY turns tapped. each FIVE turns.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
High Power Russian Station

r. NikolaieF, assistant commissar of
posts and telegraphs of the Russian
soviet government. announces that the
government radio station at Bogorodsk,
near Moscow. is nearing mpletion
rhn will soon be in operation. Its
towers are more than 900 feet high,
shd will have a strength Of 500 kilo-
watts
:, Nikolaieff stated that his government
sao made great progress with radio
curing the last four years and that the
s'ation now operating at Moscow is in
constant communication with all parts
VI Russia and Siberia Russia now has
mirty. EIGHT sending stations and 2eO
..ecelving !. stations. When the new sta
uon) Is in operation it is possible that
81 80 may set our share Of Bolshevik
ssdadeasting.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Radio or Wireless-Which? ?

In the early days OF communication
by Hertzian waves, the outstanding
novelty of the, new system lay in the
absence Of connecting wires between
the two communicating stations. Hence,
the term "wireless" was coined to de-
scribe this form Of telegraphy, term
which though rather crude. still ex-
presses in popular way the main
point of interest.
AS the art progressed, attention be-
came focused more on the extremely
l. igh frequencies of the alternating
currents used, this being known as
"radio frcquencics" as opposed to the
GLOW frequencies" of ordinary power
practice. such as 25 cycle and so cycle
svstems as used in house lighting and
for ordinary electric power. With
this inSziew, the new means of com com
municafion became known as radio
teleeraphy," or abbreviated, as "radio.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Eliminating Interference

Question: Does electric light current
Gauge more interference than Alternating .
g What is the best way TO get rid Of thus
interference? g. Do YOU think could use use
a loop aerial with an r e. outfit 100 ,.Is miles
aepis afIh set sehenectady loud enough on
ono stage. Would the aerial work better
If set up outside Of the house close 70 the
room Where the machine is placed!-
u. X NJ.
Answer. The electric light cur
rents cause interference in receiving
circuit only when the aerial is running
parallel to the power lines, or where
the generators are very close to the re-
ceiving sets. In the case Of alternating
current. the interference takes the form
of continuous hum, corresponding to
the 6O-cycle note of the current. In
the case of direct current the interter-
ence is somewhat more irregular and Is
caused by the commutator ripple.
9, The best way to get rid Of this in
reference is to place the aerial at
riph. angles to the power-carrylng
lines. 8. Experience alone will tell you
whether you can get results with a
loop aerial at your distance with that
particular type of set. Wouio
strongly advise against it. particularly
as you are getting such good results
with a regular aerial, and also in con-
Slderatlon OF the 1dct tndt you oPP"A
entity have plenty of facilities for
good aerial. theoretically, the loop
aerial should work just as we'll indoors
as it does out Of doors; particularly II
there is any steel construction In your
house you will find that this steel con-
struction tends to distort the carrier
waves and consequently necessitates
placing the set somewhere in the room
where it will be away from this dis
tortion.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
On Buying Vacuum Tubes

-, vestion--Pleass let me know how
many Eacuu1n tubes are necessary in order
10 70 NEAR New York. am 500 miles away
AN these vacuum tubes be bought in the
open market, or Is there Il patent right
specifyinE that they shall be used on Ger
Ia.n sets? Who are the companies manu-
lactnring these sets Who are tbs com
!" NJ. T..
Answer-A great d.s! will depend
upon your local conditions, but it will
be absolutely necessary ~ least to use
a detector and two stages of ampliti-
cation, which, Of course, means the use
OF three vacuum tubes. These vacuum
!unes can be bought from any dealer
i'll radio supplies. They are completely
covered by basic patents and are
licensed for experimental or amateur
purposes and are sold to you under
those conditions. Quite number of
companies are manufacturing these
tubes, but they are practically all alike
with only very minor variations. They
are All manufactured under a license.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Transformer for 5o.Watt Tubes

Question--I have transformer closed
ore IN IN SO. N cross section
ana in. hsshX10 IN. long What will be
me ,. minimum number Of turns or No is
"lfe tor the primary which is used on 10
T'--bV cycle A. G? How many turns muvt
put on tho secondary to furnish 1900
volts on each side OF the center tap? W'hsr
SIZE we should | Use for this secondary
10 supply Two 6o-watt tubes" What size
wirc il used for the l3-ampere rlament
w'ndinss? How many turns &C {. c.
Answer--On l1O volts on two-inch
square core there should be approx
mstely 1870 turns on the primary, which
is roughly 6 volts turn The open
circuited voltage Of the secondary
should be in the eighborhood of 500
volts, depending upon how it is wound.
For supplying two 50watt tubes No. 26
wire shohld be used on the secondary.
For supplying ID amperes on the fila
ment windings you should use at least
No. 10, and the same number of volts
per turn, of course, would apply,
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Description of an Arrester

e. ,; Must wiss !ssa rom ikks iss5-
should nv tn be oDno mo-, h 8 roy i% fay
the mouse? 4: Which is better a lightning
aairester or lightning switch: i. What
kind Of switch is necessary for lightning
protection" g. What is the wave length Of
an aerial ninety feet long, including the
lead IN = Is ii true that the hlgher up
the aerial the better one can receive?
about how far is WIZ from me? About
nov now far is aNB from me" y What is the
up with which do not need "a condenser
Is his all right? H. II + use a ground wir.
Sout<ide ,u id for ,I lightntng protection, must
building ard then down about thirty -tiyo
feet. Is mis- ali right?
Answer--l. A lightning arrester con
sists Of very small air gap between
two pieces of metal incosed in /.
vacuum. ?. 1t is absolutely impera-
tive that you have a wire from one
side Of the arrester to the ground 1t
must be good ground connection. The
aerial viii. be attached to the other
terminal of the arrester. 3. 1t is best
to keep the wire at least FIVE inches
from the side Of the house This can
be doMe by bracket insulators. A. A
lightning arrester is better than the
lightning switch, because it always
functions autom atically and eliminates S
the personal element. BY that I mean
that with lightning switch You might
forget to throw the switch over to the
ground connection. whereas with an al
rcster such an operation is unneces-
sary and you are consequently pro-
tected all of the time. s. The above
answer also covers this question. 6.
The wave length Of your aerial is ap-
proximately 1870 meters. Z. Within GER
tain limitations it is much better to
have the aerial as high and clear as
possible in order to get good results.
8. WIZ is approximately eighteen miles
from YOU 2XB is about mile. g. The
condenser is a very important instru
ment in radio work, as it gives the nee
essary amount of capacity to the cir
cult to balance the inductance and
make the circuit reconnant. TO- A cir
cult, of course, can be used without
condenser, due to the fact that there
is certain amount of distributed ca
pacity in all coils of wire. l could
not tell you offhand whether your cir
. cult will function without condenser.
because I do not know just what kind
Of circuit you are using. IL. Under
the recent ruling Of the National Board
of Fire Underwriters it is not neces-
! sary to have an outside ground connec-
| ton for lighting protection where
only receiving apparatus is used, conse-
, quently you can place the lightning ar
rester on the inside of your house, pro-
vided that all of the normal usual pre-
cautions are taken and you can then
use the same ground that you used
with your apparatus. The best ground
for this purpose is the connection tc
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Let The Tribune
Help You Solre Your
Radio Problems

YOU are experiencing difficulty
with your receiving set write to
JACK Binns. the Tribune Radio. 1s4
Nassau Street. New York City. In
your letter state what your troublc
~. what kind Of apparatus Won sre
using and any other facts YOU th,nL
necessary. II YOU desire to install
a receEving set and need advice
write to the Tribune Radio. stating
whether you live in an apartment
or private house, and If outside
the city your distance from New
YORK: Questions of general interest
VIII be answered in this department
every Sunday. Requests for personal
answers should be accompanied by
velope. en-
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14

rot get WIZ or KpKA. wnieh Snn ia am snn snH
ious n TO near Can YOU suggest how | might
oe'.er 'nis poor outdoor aerisls-A j. T.
answer>-Of course, it would be very
oAmcult for ne to advise Won. NOT
knowing the local conditions of vonr
house. Since, however, YOU are get
ting the stations that you mention. I
doubt very much whether YOU can i'm :
prove on this with the aerial that YOU
are using. Undoubtedly, WBZ and
KDKA are antidrectional to your
AERIAL. You would not, of course, get
such good results with the loop as
you will with the outdoor aerial. There
ls one thing, however. in connection
with the loop: You will find that YOU
must have 1T pointed exactly toward
the station YOU desire to receive from
in order to get results, and in addition
to this if there is steel construction
IN your building there will be some
wave distortion Of the higher frequency
waves, which may necessitate placing
the loop aerial further back in the
room. The only way to get results
with the loop aerial is by means Of a
little patient experimentation. If you
40 not want to go to the trouble of
always dropping the outside wire I
~ou'o Suggest that you try laying 100
teet of No. 18 bell wire around the
picture molding Of your room, getting
as wide distribution of this wire as
you possibly can under the circun-
stances, and then connecting one end
OF 1t to your apparatus in the usual
manner, and having the ground con
nection to the water pipe system The
fact that the loop aerial consists of cop
per wire should not make any differ
ence in its operation
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
First Aid for the Radio Enthusiast
1 nov TO Make ohort-Wave Vario-Coupler;
n, ,nuoor Aerial Around a Living Room:
describing Lightning Protector Device
lightning Protection

9uest'on--I do not see what will stoo
iish'ninK iron, coming into the house. az
tecto7 leads right to the set in the nous.
Wouldn't tho lightning follow the wire
,sadins ,s. I'M, IN as we'll as tho wire leading to
Answer Lightning has the peculiar
property of taking the shortest path
toward the ground and it will rather
jump across very small air ran in
side OF the lightning arrester than
pass through all of the turns Of vour
tuning coil to ground. You need hav.
no fear about this, as the device will
thoroughly protect the house and II
meets with all the requirements Of the
fire underwriters. ''N
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Correct Wire for Aerial

Correct Wire for Aerial
=, ouestion-My aerial was OF single wire.
so feet long, with about 35 feet OF No IS
1eao,lh ,y wire. My ground wire WAS also No.
~ ana about 90 feet long. being attached
.o ehe water pipe. have recently added
| Two wires TO the aerial. that it now is
r. .hfee- wire aerial. of about .S feet in
received VIZ fairly we'll My aerial !s
on top of four story apartment house.
should my latest aerial be more e.h-
cieht IMAM the one wire aerial? =. VIII
q leao-ln wire Of No. IA be more efficient
man my No. ls? Ditto as to ground wire >
.. MY lead-in rests against the wall at
some places. ls this correct or should il
be Insulated all the way in? L. When
not using my phoaes ! switch the aerial
over onto the ground. Is this sufficient to
prevent am @ lightning trouble? 8. If make
cor twice az large my present one
VIII 1t be more efficient in any respect T?
Can hook UP more than one set OF re-
csiNeis and receive as Well? viii the fire
escnpe nave any influence on the lead In
wire running alongside but two feet away?
Il. A.
Answer and 9 Your aerial wire
IS really too small in size. 1t should be
No. IA instead of No. is. The lead-in
and the ground should also be the same
sue. This aerial will be no more eff :
Gent than single Wire aerial of the
same length. The multiple aerial wire
may BRING in little more interference
=, ~ "'"eie' oiHce you nave got 1t up,
though, would advise you to let it
stsy' as you are getting pretty fair re-
suits. 3. You must absolutely insulate
the lead-in wire from your house,
otherwiso you will get leakage. If you
viii insulate it properly think that
your results will be .3oticeably i'm
proved. 4. The new regulations of the
hre underwriters make the lightning
arrester absolutely imperative, and
would suggest that You install! onc.
You can still leave the switch in If
you so desire, 8. A coil twice as large
as your present one will be less eff
cient and unnecessary. s. You can usn
several pairs Of telephones on YOUR set,
but you must connect them in series
with each other; otherwise you will not
get any results. This is absolutely i'm
perStive. 7. The fire escape should
nave no influence On the lead-in.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Government Licenses %
More Broadcasting Stations

Twenty-three new broadcasting sta
tjons were licensed last week by the
Department of Commences:
WBAY - American Telephone and
Telegraph Company, New York.
WBAV--The Erner 4 Hopkins Com
pany, Columbus. Ohio.
WGM-Georgia Railway & Power
Company Atlanta. ("Atlanta ,Constitu-
tion'D.
WBAQ-Myron l.. Harmon, Y. NJ. C.
A.. South Bend, Ind.
WGI-Iowa State College, Ames,
WBAW- Marietta College, Marietta,
Ohio.
WBAu-Republican Publishing Com
pany. Hamilton, Ohio.
KNIT. w. Smith. Eureka, Calf.
WBAX-John H. Stenger jr, Wilkes
Barre, Pa.
WCAE-Kaufmann & Baer Company,
Pittsburgh.
WCAB-Newburgh News Print and
Publishing Company, Newburgh. N. Y.
WBAZ-Times Despatch Publishing
Company. Richmond, Va.
KIX-Tribune Publishing Company,
Oakland, Calf.
KOJ-Uniyersity of Nevada. Reno,
New.
-Wenatchee Battery and Motor
Company, Wenatchee. Wash.
WBAP-The Star-Telegram, Worth
am Carter Publishing Company, Fort
Worth, Tex.
KYI--"B Bakersfield California" Bak-
ersield. Calf.
WCAG - Daily States Publishing
Company. New Orleans, La.
KNX-Electric Lighting Supply Com
pany. Los Angeles
WCAC-John Fink Jewelry Company.
Fort Smith, ARK.
WCAD St. Lawrence University,
Canton. N. Y. (Only weather.)
KQI-University of California, Berke-
ley, Calf.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Peculiaritics of a Loop

Question: have been using loop aerial
with bare copper wire. but have not got
any results at all with It,. Do You think
the ault lies IN the wire? ! am not al
lowed to erect an aerial on the roof. so
have devised this means Of an outdoor
aerial My window faces south and there
is balcony outside of It, drop 100 feet
of copper wire so that tho bottom is about
twenty feet above the ground. However,
this is a great bother, as must take II In
during every thunder storm. 1t is only
makeshift affair. On this I only get
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
Radio Show to Continue

The radio show which was opened a
week ago in the Ice Palace, Brooklyn,
by the Electrical Contractors Associa-
ton, Of Brooklyn and Queens, will con-
tinue for another week. The show ex-
hibits every type of apparatus for re-
ceiving purposes.
The Cd Naval Militia has booth in
the show and is demonstrating the
work of it's signal corps.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-14
A Radio Dog Story

An Airedale terrier in the radio re-
ceiving room of the University OF
Kentucky last night heard his owner
At Pittsburgh, Pa, call him. The own
or. r. Paul Anderson, dean of the uni
yersity, was speaking from the West
inehouse broadcasting station. The
dog was sleeping as Anderson's voice
came in. He sprang to his feet
wagred his tail and then capered about
the radio outfit.