Evening star., 1923-03-18
RADIO GOSSIP AND NEWS

set. About four or FIVE years ago
when | was a small kid. j became in
terested in radio. My whole interest
was in the interception of the radio
time signals. Starting with the lowly
;unine coil and pair of S0-ohm
bell phones ] got rather poor results.
Later | bought pair of 1000 ohm
phones and made a loose coupler, to-
Eethcr with Il new aeria! and could
hear Arlington and one or two other
SPARK station 20 feet away from the
phones with this set. With the ad-
dition of a vernier condenser | be
licrc I can get better results, az the
tuning of this set is remarkably sharp
and most difficult. especially the con-
denSer
MY phone number is Lincoln 1881
and If any of my fellow radio bugs
either concerning my sets or reception
of distant stations on a crystal or single
circuit set. | will gladly do so. Please
call after : o'clock in the evening.
"l also invite the man who doubts
the crystal record TO come over any
night and listen To the tune Of kDKA
on a little chunk of galena.
Hears Eifty-fiye stations.
Firty-five of the 1i0 distant sta
tions heard by II. W. Wells OF l05
East Thornapple street. Chevy Chase,
distance reception contest they
GFCA. Toronto: CFCN. calgary,
Alberta. Canada; CkAc. Montreal,
Canada: XIII. Los Angeles; kOl'. De-
troit: kSD. ST. Louis: kYW. Chicago:
WIT. Ealeigh. X. G; Woz. Spring
field, Mass; wCN. Worcester. Mass. !;
WCN. Detroit; WEY. Wichita. kans. {:
WGI. Medford Hillside. Mass; WGM.
Atlanta: WGR. Buffalo: WHO. Kan
sas City: WKN. Memphis; WMC. Mem
phis; Voc: Dayenpor. Iowa: WoS.
jefferson city. Mo: WOZ. Richmond.
Ind: WSB. Atlanta: WSY. Birmingham.
A'a: WAC. New Orleans: WAX.
Milwaukee: WBAP. Fort Worth. Tex;
WDAI. Richmond Va; WGAz. Quin-
WpA1 Sy ~ sprInrtied MRAA HASnfi''e Ill., wDAE. BAT:
Tampa, Fla; wDAF, Kansas CITY;
VIDAL. jacksonville. ria; WDAS.
Worcester. Mass: WEAD. Fort
Dodge. Iowa: WEAN. Providence; r.
las. Tex: wFAY. independence.
Kans.: WHAo. Savannah. Ga: WHAP,
Decatur. H.: W1AO, Milwaukee.
wis: WAR. Paducah. Ky; WAN.
Cedar Rapids. Iowa; WkAQ; m Porto t..
Duluth. MINI: WMAo. chicago:
WNAK Manhattan. Kans.: WOAE,
Erie. Pa: WOAI. San Antonio: WOAS.
Webster Grove. Mo; WLAk. Bellows
Falls. Vt: WLAT. Burlington. Iowa.
and PWX. Havana, Cuba.
Most of these stations. including
XIII have been heard ON the detec-
tor alone" said Mr. Wells. How
ever. have a tWo-Step ampllher.
which use when necessary. have
simply 81 single circuit regeneratlEe
homemade set and 130-foot aerial. 30
Il Wish to commend The star on
the fine radio programs il contains
Il hope this Will inspire some other
hugs TO show their lists.
Long Relay Recorded.
The relaying Of q message across
the continent between Montreal and
Vancouver h. means of amateur radio
will he attempted by amateurs in
Cana,la under the auspices of the
American Radio Relay League.
March "a - and &c. ~ which time
they will cndeavor to break the
American transcontinentai record of
January. 1921. when "A message was
sent across the United states and
return in six ard one half minutes.
The distance covered by the pro-
posed three-day relay tests from
Vancouver TO Montreal is approx
rnately $500 miles. The arrange
nStnts for the tests are in charge of
W. &. c. Duncan. member of the
a. r. r. L. board Of direction ann
recently appointed general manager
of amateur radio activities in Canada
In a preliminary test just COM
pleted by the Canadian amateurs n
message was relayed from Vancouver
to Montreal and return. distance
Of 1900 miles. in one hour and ten
minutes,
This message was sent from the
amateur station operated by r. Chan &
at 466 Pender street Il. Vancouver.
. he az OF nF Lar.
IS Royce avenue Montreal. and re-
turn. 1t was relayed through sta
tions operated by p. Socolofsky.
Loreburn. Sask.. and William NJ.