Evening star., 1923-01-27
RADIO NEWS

A galaxy Of juvenile entertainers.
including the Lawrenson boys. Richard
S. and Austin L., seven and nine years
old, respectively, and the Brightwood
Park School Orchestra will headline
the program tonight Of station WAY
of woodward & Lothrop. under the
direction Of c. o. Fischer. Another
feature will be an address by Rev.
Earle Wilhey, pastor Of the Vermont
Avenue Christian Church, In q ten
minute talk in commemoration of the
victims of the Knickerbocker Theater
disaster.
An added feature of the program
tomorrow of station WDM of the
Church of the Covenant, will be the
broadcasting of the Lord Bryce
regular morning and evening service
also will be broadcast. !
secretary of State Hughes and John
w. laws, former ambassador to Great
britain, will be the principal speakers
at the memorial service.
Station wPM of Thomas J Will
mans, Inc. Is making arrangements
70 broadcast the program of the
rotary Club at the Willard Hotel
Monday night, Immediately following
lts regular concert program. which
NeWsboyS' Band.
Several thousand "wPM" buttons
nave been made by the station for
ulstrioution among it's youthful
listeners They may be procured at
New York avenue.
rms station now emphasizes in an
Iouncing It's program numbers that
the residents of the District are dis
tranchized by stating that it Is Iocat-
eo IN voteless Washington, d. c.,
two blocks from the White House"
TROY, N Y, January 27.-Accord-
Ing to letters just received by mail
from three different communities in
station wHAZ at the Rensselaer,
polytechnic Institute in Troy, the
largest station in any educational in
stltution, has established new
worids hroa record for long distance
clear reception of both music and
speech having been established at a
distance Of approximately $500 miles.
The Troy Polytechnic station, which
wa, was esta oiished last fall at the open
ing OF the college year through a gift
or $4,000 from the Roeblings, build
ers of the Brooklyn bridge and grad
yates of the institute, has been car
rying 1g on on a series Of experiments and
tests besides its weekly Monday even
ing programs during the winter.
Within three months the country was
spanned regularly by the program
proadcasts. which also were received
In Canada, Cuba, Porto Rico and
Mexico. In the Radio League trans
atlantic tests last month the Troy
station was heard in both England
and France.
The electrical engineers and experts
OF the faculty. headed by Prof. wy
In continued improvements to the
modulating system Of the stations
sending apparatus with surprising re-
suits. The latest test concert was
given by the Rensselaer, Polytechnic
Students Symphony Orchestra in the
early hours OF January 8. midnight to
1850 am, being broadcast on the sta
tons regular 400 meter wave length.
Within few days messages had been
Union, reporting in most cases loud
and clear reception. Then came re-
ports from the Canadian northwest
and two outposts in Alaska. from
several points in Mexico, Cuba and
on to the Panama Canal Zone, as well
as from ships at sea- Finally mail re-
ports have Just arrived from Hilo.
Watluku and Haiku in the Hawaiian
Islands. the writer in each instance
enumerating program numbers and
messages which were clearly re-
ceived.
Reports from Hungston. British Co
lumbia, and Alaska were to the effect
that the music came in" without the
usual whistle" showing that the de-
sired point of satisfactory radtophone
modulation is being reached.