Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-18

eurs all over the state and section
er reports and entertainment fea-
d now begun.
STATION COMPLETED
THURSDAY MORNING
The Journals outfit--as completes
as may be had today-was installed
under the supervision of George A.
Her, formerly of the Georgia Rail-
way and Power company, whoewil
have charge of the station. The
operator is Walter Tison, Jr., radio
operator, commercial, first grade,
who halls from Cedartown, Ga. His
license bears. the signature Of Her
bert Hoover, and contains a solemn
reference to the oath Of secrecy
being duly executed. He got to
be an expert amateur and then saw
radio service on shipboard.
The mysterious gear was hooked
UP Thursday morning, and the
operator, shifting the coils to get
| in tune with this station and that,
| began picking messages out of the
blue sky through the giant antennae
on the roof of The Journal building,
trickling down through big copper
leads to the operating table.
Hooded like a telephone operator
with q similar headgear and ear
pieces, Mr.. Tison jotted down scraps
| of messages all the way from Ger
| ENra NJ a.
ward noon, a. curious combination or
alphabetks that could be nothing
else than Russian.
1t was eerie and, strange enough.
wearing the Aeadgear yourself, to
hear in mu$cl whine-the pitch
varying with the shifting OF the in
| duction coils-dots and dashes OF 4he
Continental Morse system.
Strange and a bit creepy--picking
dots and dashes 6pt of the blue sky;
dots and dashes 1hat started thou
sands of miles away, to ride the
| invisible ether until shared by the
| antennae on the roof and made to
trickle out through a pencil-point as,
| for example
| "--culpable he accounts for slap.
ping detective and companion" -
! That was in good United States;
from New York. And just before
that
"--she does not know what she
wants and" N
Very likely not. The mysterious
"she'' is by no means UNIQUE in that
regard
An then
"--lidacjidur gefsutary lepyplaons
! abby"
Code of purest< ray serene, palpas
| bly,, y From Germany. Wonder IL
the bock-beer season has got there
yet? Pity we can't ask 'eTn. Nj
/ And here, each word repeated, we
4 have
Observation-Disclosures --dilo.
gilcby--''
sIt seems more odd than usual
| that you can send Russian, by radio.
| To Broadcast Entertainment
| Then one in Danish, which might
have been the sixth inning between
the Copenhagen Blues and the Dem
4 mark White Sox.
Can you think of it, ALI al. snce--
picking out of the sky messages
from the corners of the earth?
The Journals radio station is pre-
! pairing to receive and send what In
|
ing, lectures and the like. They
hook up a telephone sort of APP
| pliance, with amplifiers for receiv-
ing, and Atlantians can hear the
| symphony orchestra in Cincinnati,
and the Chicago Opera Company in
Chicago, and boxing matches called
blow by blow in Pittsburg. And
The Atlanta Journal station can
broadcast" for stations over the
state and the youth--including the
indefatigable amateurs-weather re-
ports and news and such matters.
and singing and playing and speak
ing.
The fifth floor of The JodrnaTs
building is now being fitted out as
IA thoroughly modern receiving and
sending radio station. It has been
proffered, and accented by the At
lanta Radio club as a meeting place
and headquarters-the members al
ready have held meetings there.
And The Journal, besides getting
in the sky with a powerful radio
outfit, has established and is con-
Quoting a radio department for the
use of everybody in Dixie, inviting
letters and problems and questions,
and anything else that 1elates to
this newest and most wonderful
method of communication.
Great Strides of Wireless
Gigantic leaps, through space HAYS
been made by wireless. Messages
have been exchanged between New
York and Honolulu-7, 900 or 5000
miles. The development is bewil-
deringly rapid and vast. No man can
predict what a year or a month will
bring forth.
But The Journal is ain the sky"'
and with it's own staff of radio ex-
perts The Journal will keep step
with every new stride in this amaZ-
ing field.
Right now you can step into The
Journals station and "listen in" on
curious code messages from Europe
and South America; and good United
States travelling from, New York
to the Pacific coast-and when night
fall smoothes out the aerial waves
CT commercial chatter, you can hear
crchestras a 1000 miles away, and
singing, voices that flick across the
darkened sky to whisper, speak Or
sing into your own ear, across vast
spaces reduced to nothing by that
curtously searching factor, the brain
Of man. 10
For the Public
Further details in regard to The
Journals radio plans will be an.
nounced from time to time. 4 sched-
uie is being worked out and the
hours and details of the programs
will be announced in The Journal,
SO that amateur operators allsover