Evening star., 1923-02-25
RADIO GOSSIP AND NEWS

per cent and a power input not to
exceed 1000 watts. meaning he must
have a 30 per cent pure wave. This
was given the amateur In the con-
vfction that he could not transmit
more than a city block. But the am
ateur has conquered the 200 meters,
ne has conquered the city, block, the
continent, the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans, and for this he has used less
than one kilowatt
Explains Vacuum Tube.
L. e. Bliss. head of the Bliss Elec-
trlcal School, explained the opera
tions of the elements of a vacuum
tube for detection. transmission and
amplif1cation at a meeting recently
Of the radio club and chemimstry
classes OF Business High School. He
illustrated his lecture with photo
graphic diagrams.
Hears Across Continent.
Carlos Van Leer, jr.. of 1865 On
tario place has entered the long-dis-
tance reception contest by submit
ting the following list of stations he
mas received on three tubes: WHB.
Kansas City; kYW. Chicago; KSD,
81; Gr Louis; voc. Davenport, Iowa.
homa mpaA' citS. Daiias; GoT Tex; WkY. Okla
WLAG, Minneapolis; WHAT. Duluth:
WDAP, Chicago; WIAO, Milwaukee:
WDAF, Kansas city; WPAD, Chica,
GO; WMAQ, Chicago; VINO, Memphis; !;
TnAG WnnGi Montreal; CFCA. Toronto; !;
WDAL- jacksonville; WBAP, Fort
Worth, Tex; PWX. Havana, Cuba: !:
WkAQ, Porto Rico; WAN Cedar
RAPIDS Iowa. and XIII. Los Angeles
"Faust7 Program PIeaseA
RADIO listeners in virtually two
thirds of the states in the union
picked up tho opera Faust broad
cast from Station WAY of Wood :
ward & Lothrop on Saturday night
February II. it is shown by a mass
or letters received by c. o. Fischer,
manager of the radio department of
thlS store: All of tho communications
spoke in high praise of the program
ana requested others of it's type
The letters of commendation bega n
10 come In last Monday and continued
until late yesterday when Mr.. Fischer
found his desk almost flooded
with them. Those from the most
a1stant points where the opera was
heard came from Fargo, n. D., Jack
sonville. Fla, Lakewood, Ohio. and
Manchester. n. Ii.
The following letter received by
Mr.: Fischer from one of the local
listeners is illustrative Of many of
those found in WAYS mail bag:
1t gives me great pleasure to con-
graduate your radio manager, Mr.
Z. .. Fischer for the excellent pro-
Il dusI WHICH you rendered so
perfectly Saturday night, February
II. 1923. This date goes down in his
tory as the best production and per-
fecuy broadcasted program of any
Washington broadcasting has under
taken and achieved with such great
success.
II ain confident that /every radio
listener that was fortunate to listen
In Saturday night agrees with me
that your firm accomplished and in
- h,N nI
we havo so long looked for. Some
thing above the average of what We
get nightly from our homo stations
Keep the good work going.
There were five persons who sat in
your invisible audience, all equipped
with phones listening in from my set.
persons who witnessed Faust" and
speaking for all, 1t was d real treat
never TO be forgotten. We sat with
you the entire time. hearing the an
nounccment about S:16 pm, and good
night at 10:08 pm. Come again and
frequently with your first-class pro-
grams"
Curious Rndio Coincidence.
curious radio coincidence is re-
ported by r. Z. Iddings of Brinklow,
Md. He was listening in Thursday
night to WLW at Cincinnati which
was broadcasting music by a glee
club quartet. when it was announced
that the next number would be
Beautiful Blue Danube"
1T did not seem well adapted for
vocal music" said Mr.. Iddings, 80
while they were singing it 1 tuned
in WIZ at Newark, n. j., which was
broadcasting music from the Meal
pine Hotel dining room. The orches-
ira there was playing the same tune,
Beautiful Blue Danube Now the
chances against this happening were
very great-that two programs
should contain Blue Danube the
same evening-that it should be
played just at the same time at the
two places-and that listener
should happen to tune from one to
the other while 1t was being played.
'You might call it one chance in
a billion"