The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-31
RAY D. OWE GETS HIS
THIRD STEP, BUT FAILS
TO REGISTER THRILL

Ray ID. owe, recently Tell heir to
all the material necessary for an
other stage of application and has
installed his third step. Probably
you remember when Ray first made
his old set, he drilled all the holes
for three step amplifier, although
then he only had the material for
one tube or detector set. He reaii-
yes now that it was wise idea and
advises all the other bugs to do all
the drilling before the panel is ever
mounted. t
AS we were saying about the old
three stage, Ray got II completed
and as it does give one so much en-
joyment to stick the old plug in ALI
the jacks starting with the detector
and going up. Ray started by stick
ing the old plug in the dctector jack
and as soon as hse heard the old
familiar sounds that greet the ear
when this is done, he jerked it out
of the detector and after turning the
one stage rheostat he slipped 1t back
in the Jack for the first step. He
was evidently satisfied with the
went through the same process of
preparing the two stage and then
on to the new old three stage. He
was little nervous as he got the
third step ready for the test and in
a moment he slowly pushed the plug
in the newly Installed Jack He had
forgotten to turn on the bulb. Slow
ly he turned the rheostat and the
filament started glowing, much to
Rays satisfaction. But alas kay's
face registered look of almost nor
ror. He removed the phones from
his ears to keep from ruining them
Ct mean his ears) and as soon as lie
did this ! could plainly hear the
melodious sequeal of the three step.
How encouraging!" I said, ready to
duck whatever he might throw, but
his sorrow was too much for violence.
One thing though, he fell heir" 10
the material for the squeaiing third
stage so he wasn't out of anything
but. a little time.
Since the day after Christmas, the
set hasn't been in use very much as
Ray has a banjo and is trying to
plank" on it. Pop Owe, who came
next in the line of operators at the
Owe house, has been enjoying poor
health and Mrs. Owe can't do very
much with a set alone. o. Owe pulled
out of town a day or so before Christ
mas and told all the other Owes II
they looked for him after the saw
him, it would be a little too soon.
You see he has gone to visit one Of
his cousins on his fathers side of
the knot, the cousins name hap
pens to be K. Owe.
Wei, Pop Owe has been pretty sick
and although he doesn't say SO, Ray
kinda thinks POP wrote to the Fort
Worth announcer and got sample
of the Uno. Anyway, We know he
has been so sick he couldn't be left
alone until night or two ago when
Mrs. Owe had to go somewhere and
asked Ray to stay with the old man
and Ray said all right. In just little,
while someone called up and asked
Ray over there to dinner. Strange
to say, Pop Owe said it would be all
right, in fact he even went SO far as
to urge Ray to go. Well Ray went
and it was a long time before he
got home. When he did get home he
took the greatest care not TO wake
Pop Owe, as. he needed all the rest
he could get.
AS Ray was getting ready for bed,
he thought of the set and what
good night 1t was for listening in
and sneaked carefully toward the
dining room. As he walked down
the hall he saw the light was in the
ROOM How strange! His sneaking
slowed down to almost halt as he
heard the variometer pointers of the
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