Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-03-09
Radio Telephone One of Wonders
of the Century; Station at Mad-
son is Described
MESSAGES SENT OUT
MAY REACH PLANET MARS
Future of the Device Hard to Fore
tell, Writes o. D. Brandenburg
at Capital City
o. o. BRANDENBuRG


Two hours of an evening in the
radio station at the university give
one an experience fairly dazing. There
comes suddenly as one sits with re-
ceiving rosettes capped TO his ears,
sharp and sudden "click! click!"-
for all the world like telegraphy.
From Texas, / guess" nonchal-
antly observed M. P. Hanson, chief
radio operator, though / didn't get
the signal; but it sounds like Texas"
he added, evidently possessing some
inside information justifying his sus-
picion.
"If the musical program just given"
breaks in stentorian masculine voice
as clear and resonant as if in the next
room with door ajar, "is pleasing to
you.-if you desire to have maintain
ed the Detroit Symphony Orchestra,
which you have just heard, a little
contribution to insure that end will
greatly help. Please make remittances
to The Detroit News, and immediate
ly after The News will, over this
radio circuit and from it's own radio
station, make due acknowledgment
to donors. l have to announce since
last report that contributions have
come from, and several names,
! with residences, were pronounced.
"If each of the 400 stations to which
l am now speaking responds only
slightly, the Detroit Symphony Or
chestra will be able 20 continue" adds
the Michigan advocate. "The Detroit
News wishes You all good night,
Then silence ensues, except for a bit
of peculiar sputtering on the wire.
Mote that whistling occasionally"
Mr.. Hanson inquired. That's due to
conflicting of audible waves, ,P-and
he breezed on with an elaborate and
| lucid technical explanation that went
quivering into space infinitely over
the heads of his wisely affirming au-
ditor, profoundly mystffied with it all,
yet pridefully unwilling to admit his
Grass delinquency.
Storms and Wireless
1t was showing briskly, so the
4
question was natural, do storms
make any difference with wireless ?"
PThey don't seem to-n0t snow,
,, rain or sleet. Sound waves run on
through everything-the same
through the air, however disturbed,
as through a stone wall or homes
of wood. But we have freaks in this
business For example about four
weeks ago we sent broadcast from
the university a concert and of the
many letters of appreciation received
| all but four came from points in New
York state, probably two dozen. The
sound waves passed over intermed-
late points, or at least failed to be
picked up by any of the stations in
| Illinois. Indiana, Ohio or elsewhere
this side, nor did we have a single
response from westward,-not one;
yet our music was flung out to go
all ways equally and at once. Some
| times the waves seem, for no expli-
cable reason, to flow more readily in
one direction than in another. AS a
matter of fact, no doubt they do fan
out uniformly from our station, in
J terference or DETECTION occurring
elsewhere. BY the way, operation is
altogether better at night than by
| day."
Light the reason?"
"Yes; or, rather, the heat, that
light implies, acts as a conductor. to
the earth-to a dissipation of the
waves"
/ Sweet Voice Heard
1T is a beautiful composition
here sounded in the telephone a sweet
female voice, of finished enunciation
which went on with a graceful ex
PLANTATION, the opening sentences oi
whf(h unfortunately had failed to
reach us. But, through some occult
means our radio preceptor was GER
tain that our fair friend was at Pitts
burgh,-for surely she must have
been fair with voice so sweet; then
followed the lovely Humoresoue with
its lifting, signing crescendo. In the
meantime we had been advised from
some unknown point off in the ether
ial of a song given, among several
other notables, by Caruso and Cali
Curci,-.and the fun identity both OF
| the Individual who now was to sing
the creation and of the clarion enun