The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-21
Age-Herald Radio News and Comment
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he can take his amateur test and
get license.
Jack Rhodes is constructing a five
watt phone transmitter which he will
no doubt have operating in a short
while. He. roo, is waiting for the
radio inspector of the fifth district
to come around and give him one
of those slips that many are eager
to get.
All Here is another prize winner
from the Magic City of Birmingham.
of candy from the Cincinnati sta
ton. WLW This makes three prize
winners from Birmingham. Maybe,
l should not have told about A c..
Payne winning the candy quite yet
as it might not be consumed COM
pletely.
Last week Ray D. Owe was pop
ular in spite of the fact that he had
just received his five pounds of can
dy from WDAP.
willard Estes who has had his
crystal set down for quite a while
during the completion of WSY's new
broadcasting station, is now engag ed
in reinstalling it.
Gee. fellows, aren't you excited?
am sure you can't wait for the sun
to rise once again. Tomorrow,s the
day that exams start. I am wonder
ing If the exams will have any eff
feet on the radio or the radio any
effect on the exams. Tonight will
no doubt be marked by little lis
tening in.
Some of us seem to think that they
are under strict rules and regula-
tons in the United States in regard
to radio. 1 happened to be reading
the London Illustrated News a few
days ago and saw that the English
listeners are considered the same as
transmitting If they let the tubes
on their receiving sets howl" There
seems to be only one broadcasting
station in London and the nation lis
tens to it every night. Whenever
an amateur station is letting the
plate have too much juice or letting
the filament get overheated, other
listeners phone 1t to the broadcast
ing station and they in turn announce
that some one is disturbing with the
concert. If letting the bulbs howl
was all the fellows here did things
would be perfect even if the static
Iayed en-.
Frank Hollis states that he is
better pleased with his single stage
of radio frequency every night As
lie puts it. it is naturally hot" He
states that he is getting new stations
very often now.
LHSlih Stnlapwerlr fan T.
is using Reinartz tuner now and a
single stage of audio frequency am
plification. He says the signals are
SO loud that one stage is all he
needs or his ears could stand. This
radio fan has long ago passed from
the stage of "bugdom" to the stage
Of "amateurdom." He is using a
Z. w. transmitter to let the brother
amateurs in other states know he is
in existence. Stollenwerks results
nave been SO satisfactory with his
e. w. set that he is contemplating
installing an unusually large c. w
transmitter, to see if he can raise"
some of the guys" on the western
coast. l saw a card, the other day,
that sep (Stolenwerk) received from
station out in Catilina Island. For
the benefit of those who don't know,
will state that this island is To-
Gated about 80 miles out In the Pa
cific ocean. The card was not stat
ing that station had received sep,
but was in reply to a letter from
Stolenwerk, which said he had heard
them and told them what the con-
tent Of the message was for verifi-
cation. The reply did verify it
which shows us that Sep isn't asleep
on the receiver either.
We have received the following
letter from local bug who has had
a little trouble in getting his set
to give the desired results. The let
ter is as follows:
Jack Turner. Radio Editor, The Age
Herald. City.
Dear Sir: have intended to write
you for quite while. Now that 1 am
writing 1 would like to ask a few
questions. l have SO far not been able
l have tried fourteen different hook
ups" and all of them fail. The Ques-
lions are:
l. Is a grid leak necessary when
using a peanut tube? If so, what ca
pacity?
2. Can / use a ticker feed back
circuit with this tube?
Kindly answer these in next Sun
days radio section. Yours very truly,
HOWARD SMITH.
We are glad to hear from the
radio fan and hope the an
swers to his, questions will locate