The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-27
DOMESTIC !. R. M.
 MUST BE AVOIDED
 FOR REAL SUCCESS
Ray D. Owe Gives Some of His Experiences in Keep ing Peace in the
 Family


 for several years and who has been licensed amateur for little over one year. This boy seems very in- terested in tho radio page of The Age Herald and tells us that he will be very glad to give to us the list of stations he receives, 50 we can let the others know how stations are heard at his set. This person tells me that he is just little timid and docs not crave the limelight, so he would appreciate 1t greatly If. when writing about him, we would use some other name instead of his real one. We have complied with this rs- quest and as he Is so interested in radio we have decided to call him Ray D. Owe. which Is quito appro- priato.
 Now, feilowa from now on when you see anything in this page about Ray D. Owe or some times we will call him Ray for short. you will know whom we are talking about, or rather, you will know that you don't know. Ray promises to let us hear from him every time something out of the ordinary happens at his sta ton or any time anything which he thinks will be of interest to you fel- lows he will turn 1t in right away so you will have the first chance to read 1t. There will probably be something in hero each Sunday that Ray has to tell you about, so don't forget to look for it when you read the radio page every Sunday.
 Ray tells us this week that he has found something that will seem little queer to the others at first, but one moment thinking of it will prove that 1t Is perfectly natural. Ray says that he had always had trouble. or I guess you would call 1t domestic Q R M, because having set In the house always made 1t appear to be torn up.
 This Is no doubt something that everyone who installed a set mas found. They want to keep every crystal detector or old condenser they can find whether there Is a chance to use 1t or not. This natur- ally makes things hard to get to on the set and if there happens to be any trouble it Is hard to get to to fix property and 1t is just remedicd for that night. As 1t stays the next night and works all right the owner sees no use in trying to fix 1t bet ter, but soon there are about a dozen of these places and one of them Is out of whack" all the time This Is what Ray D. Owe told us about his get. He said that Mrs. Owe told him he couldn't have anything that would make the home look like that, so old Ray decided that to mako his gat look neat would not only help the looks of the house. but 1t would make the set work better Well. l anyway. he tried 1t and got some new materials and bought some new ! instruments and made a set that is so neat that Mrs. Owe is quito pleased with it and has 1t in the dining room, but instead of making the room look worse, 1t adds to the | attractiveness of 1t. Ray states that the set works much better since he has everything so 1t can be gotten to easily. As for the old condensers, | etc, he keeps them in & box where they will be out of the way, and he set adds to the home like a beauti- full piece of furniture. This Is good advice for some of you to follow | and you will, no doubt, be glad in the end that you tried what Ray did. It Is, of course. impossible for those who have stations still in an experimental stage to put it In a l location where 1t will be seen, as when one Is experimenting they al- ways have to be changing something and they can never keep the set | straight until the desired hook up'' or whatever they are looking for Is found. Even in this case, however Ray says that they can obtain bet ter results if the instruments which are not to be used In the experiments
 are gotten out of the way
 Then when 1t comes to transmit ting set we have another problem as sending set Is the hardest thing in the world to keep neat. The only way that one can make such a set
 whether spark or c. w., so that | it will have a finished appearance l Is to make 1t mounted on a panel with as many things variable as pos | sible Gas sending set cannot be ad- justed to one location then moved to another). and after the set is finally adjusted dispose of all un- necessary articles. Ray has no send ing set and doesn't expect to con- struct one any time soon, but If he does 1t will be c. W. set.
 Ray has no amplifiers at present but will have In very short while His set consists of Zenith (made l by the Chicago Radio laboratory) 1 and on top of this he has a by 24- | inch cabinet with the detector in if l and all the holes drilled for a three stage audio frequency amplifier. He states that any boys who are going to start right off with a large set | or one using vacuum to be careful if they put 1t in conspicuous part of the house, as tho storage battery | will leak or some of the acid will | spill on the floor and the result will | cause domestic c R M sure enough Ray says that he gave the family a concert from the Atlanta Journal night or two ago and 1t came in almost perfectly at times, but on ac- count of atmospherics 1t would fade" Ray states that this fad. | ing" only keeps the station out al short breaks, which do not came very often and they come right back ir 1 just a moment. He also heard sew. eral selections from St. Louis, Kan i sas City, Indianapolis. Houston, Louis vile and many others which he did not get the calls of. The whole Owe family Is getting the bug and they are waiting anxiously and not pa- tiently for the time to come wher Ray gets a "three-step" and a Mae- navox. Then they can enjoy the music while they are at dinner.
 i Don't forget to look for the ar- ticle about Ray next Sunday, and remember. he is a real person whom many of you no doubt know per | sonally.
 All of you remember to be down | here next Saturday at II o'clock at