Evening star., 1923-12-29

Radio Editor:
saw the inquiry In The Star
December 81 about station WIAD.
! was surprised to hear this sta
tion the. other night, as it was an
old friend of mine when / was in
Atlantic City all summer.
This station was formerly at the
Ocean City Yacht Club, Ocean City,
n. J.
1t Is now a private station To-
Gated in Philadelphia. and 1 am
sorry, but / did not note the name
OF the owner the other night when
1 heard IL.
I might say that they are on a
low wave leng1h-to be exact, 254
meters-and I see in my leg that
the other call is 3XA.
L listened to a sermon in Los
Angeles for twenty minutes the
other night, and ! think I have a
pretty good set. but last night
the wife told me about a set that
makes me think j am behind the
times. 1t seems that one lady. in
talking about radio sets, stated
that a friend of hers has a set
that has twelve tubes: she listens
in to Paris, and that the set is 50
arranged that the station has TO
be at least 500 miles away or it
won't come in on the set Some
set PARKER COOK.
Radio Editor;
would like to know through
your column the call letters of the :
station which signed off at <6:e1
pm, eastern standard time. De-
cember 81. The station was broad
casting reports of stolen automo-
biles. This was followed by
market report. The station then
signed off with the following:
This is station - signing off at
6:O1 pm, eastern standard time.
! am in favor of a silent night
c. L. B.
Radio Editor;
I saw in the Radio News that a
fan In Washington heard WKAQ,
San Juan, Porto Rico, between
and 10 o'clock Christmas night
HUGH TAYLOR.
Radio Editor;
On Christmas night about 10
O'Clock I heard a station whose
call letters 1 understood to be
WIZ and the announcer mention
Could you tell me what station
heard?
want to thank Mr.. Hurley of
Hyattsville, Md, for the informa-
tton he gave me through your
column Monday.
There are no stations listed with
he call letters VIII. You may have
card WKAQ at San Juan, Porto
eico.
Radio Editor:
Wednesday night at about 10
o'clock ] hooked UP two crystal
sets on my outside aerial. One of
my sets contains a forty-three-
plate variable condenser and a
homemade vario coupler. To my
surprise I was getting WRC on
one set very clearly, distinctly
aihar ana wIth I'm much aa,, volume, s,s and on the
gram. 1t consisted of chorus or
community singing. and 1t came in
with sufficient volume and clear
ness to sound like q local station.
The singing stopped at 1890, with
great, prolonged applause, but L
never heard any station letters
called out. As WRC was the only
local station on at the time. could
any one inform me. through your
column, the station that was
broadcasting this chorus or COM
munity singing that I might have
heard on my set?
ALBERT A. PETER.
You heard station WJH of the
William P. Boyer Company, broad
casting 'The Messiah" from the
Vermont Avenue Christian Church,
this city.-Editor.
Radio Editor;
Tuesday night and Wednesday
night this week I got three inter-
esting stations, and am wondering
u others got the same got the
Cuckoo" station in Cuba I could
not understand the name OF the
800 miles east Of Havana He spoke
, In Spanish and repeated In Eng
lish, and during the time nothing
was being broadcast a cuckoo"
like the cuckoo" of q clock was
sounded. This came Somewhat like
the tick-tock of the clock in the
Havana station of the Cuban Tele-
ever. it is on the air. The
Cuckoo" station announcer said
they were using a 100-watt trans
mitter, and seemed especially anx-
ious for the United States to hear
IucSOay n1&nt was, not an eS-
pecially good night for reception
on my set. yet got the Cuckoo"
station very clearly on the loud
speaker. It was about as clear Is
Cleveland or Louisville. The an
nounoHr also said they were using
q wave length Of 3s2 meters.
Tho same night. and within half
an hour Of tho time I got the
Cuckoo" (which was about 8
go'elock) I also got quite clearly on
the speaker the San Juan station
: at Porto Rico, This was louder
than the Cuckoo" and louder
than Havana usually Is. I got in
only !on the end of the San Juan
station. hearing the last part of
the last selection and the an
nouncement, in broken English,
much like the Havana announce
ments. The wave length must
have been about 240 or 55e,
The third Interesting station, and
20 ne most interesting, Vas WCA0
In DAltimoPN. Nd. whioh got
about g. O'Clock last night. am
= 1esieA eAt AAys been told Tho