The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14

We have received letter rom local "bug" whC sends us a list of the stations he has heard this win ter. We are very glad to hear from him and wish to state that this is a fine record. The letter is as fol- lows:
 Jack Turner, Radio Editor, The Age
 Herald, City.
 Dear Sir: am enclosing a list of radio stations have heard this winter. Thought you might be interested in looking it over.
 My record west is Los Angeles, Cal. North is Duluth, Minn. East is Boston, Mass, and south, Havana, Cuba. In all have recorded 5S diff ferent stations. They are as follows: wGY, Schnectady, N. r., WFAA, Dal- las, Tex. woe, Davenport. la, VICAR. San Antonio, Tex, WHIP, Phil adelphia. Pa WOS, Jefferson City, Mo. WoH. Indianapolis, Ind, WRR. Dallas, Tex, WSD, St. Louis, Mo-, VIDAL Jacksonville, Fla, WICK, De- troit, Mich.. WA-AZ, Emporia, Kan, wMAB, Auburn, Ala, WET, Char lttte, N. C., WAAP, Wichita, Kan, r WoR, Reward, N. J., WLAY, Minne- apolis Minn.; WISE, Atlanta, Ga.,
 
 Pittsburg, Pa, wGM, Atlanta. Ga, WHAS, Louisville. Ky. WKN, Mem phis, Tenn. wEAY. Houston, Tex. WLAJ, Waco, Tex, VIDAL, College Park, Ca, WBAP, Ft Worth, Tex, XIV, Chicago, III, WSY, Birning- ham, Ala, WHAB, Kansas City, Mo-, KEN, Salt Lake City. Utah, WKY, Dodge. h., WGF. Desa Moines, Ia. WAC. Birmingham, Ala, WDAF,
 
 H.. WEAF, New York, N. T.. WAX, Cleveland. O., WIZ, Newark, N. J., PWX, Havana, Cuba, WNAZ, Knoxville, Tenn, wCAU, Philadel- phia, Pa, VEL, Anthony, Kans., WOK. Pine Bluff, Ark, WCAz, Quincy. H., woo, Philadelphia. Pa., IXD, Green Harbor, Mass KOP, De- troit, Mich. WAC, New Orleans, La, WMAG. Duluth, Minn., WKAL. Abilene, Tex. VITAL. Los Angeles, Cal. WPA, Fit. Worth, Tex, WGR, Buffalo. N. Y. WFAU. Boston, Mass, WCAE, Pittsburg, Pa. Very truly yours. N. W. PROCTOR, JR.
 We would like very much to hear from the writer of the above letter. concerning the kind of set he has and other details.
 Tickle this on your tickler with apologies to Al Posen):
 I remember when a spark coird send
 a guy out miles around, And when you'd press down on the
 key, no broadcast fan would
 frown.
 We'd almost throw double fit, if we
 got outside O town,
 Them days are gone forever. (More
 apologies
 We notice that as the "exams" are approaching the bugs, they are fail- ing to keep the tubes hot so long each night. The set now has little use We hope all the bugs will "get through" all o.>ll. We wish we could make some of the broadcasting sta -tions stop transmitting for the next two weeks altogether, so the fellows would not be tempted.
 Ray D. Owe states that he has heard station KHJ. the Los Angeles station,- very loud and clear. He also states that he heard station CFCA, Toronto. Can. g happened not to be with him either night. (Peculiar that he has such good luck alone.) We don't want to insinuate anything, but remember what Eide Owe said last Sunday.
 WSY had delightful program last Wednesday night when they had their formal opening and were heard all over the country. Many of the local bugs reported that the station was unusually clear and came through with much power. This was the first time WSY, the broadcasting station of the Alabama Power com pany, had transmitted on full power. They are now sending under their regular schedule. Their programs start every Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings at o'clock, cen tral standard, Birmingham time, as WISE would tell it.
 Proctor Barnett, Summit avenue. is the owner of an audion set, over which he hears all the large broad casting stations. Proctor constructed his own set and has several that he made.
 Alfred Walker Jr., is the owner of short wave regenerative set. He is using two stages of audio frequency amplification. Instead of a loud speaker. he has attached pair of phones to his photograph horn.
 Edward Beatty is "all broke out" with bulbs. He has a set using one detector tube and three tubes as am p1ifiers. He has a Western Elecirc power amplifier. which uses three of llS NtSkcIH iIlcClilC pQlDSs nC AdS battery which uses a bulb for recti- fication. and he has transformer which is to be used in connection with his power amplifier, which has two rectifying tubes on it. We hope he doesn't ''blow out" any of these real soon This makes a total of 10 bulbs in use, or nearly $100 hanging on the filaments. That is enough to keep anyone in suspense.
 
 We wish to caution the local lis teners with vacuum tube sets who listen in on the programs of WSY, the Alabama Power company's sta- tion. You should be very careful not to distort the sounds. When you are receiving distant station the power that comes into the aerial is less than one-millionth of what you get when local broadcasting station of this 7 size is transmitting. To tune them, it is best to use no amplification un- less you have loud speaker. as it will be distorted and liable to burn out the phones. Reduce the filament voltage to the smallest power that the set will operate and reduce the plate current on. the detector to the same degree In some cases where your station is very near the broad caster, disconnect the ground or aerial Do not tune for loudness, but clearness.
 James Dillard. who has a tickler set using two stages of audio fre- quency amplification, states that every now and then his set has spell and actually works. He states
 Quarreled Since Wedding