The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-28

RAY II. owes dog, Eide Owe, says:
THE only way some people will ever
break record is sit on it,
I just heard a man telling about
how he was listening to a fellow
in Kansas City describing the vari-
GUS parts of the wireless set. The
listener was explaining to his little
audience what the distant speaker
was talking about. When the speak
er got to the. various tubes, the
listener was pointing to the corre-
spending tube on his set and just
as the loud speaker said 1900" the
old 200 tube blew out" Some luck.
Eth, what?
We want to say again that Bir-
mingham's finest amateur radio sta
ton, 5ZAS, is still "wirelessing"
messages of all kinds to all parts
of the country free of charge. This
station is trying to handle as many
messages as possible and wants all
in this city who want to have a
radiogram ent to their friends in
any state in the union or Cuba,
Canada or Hawaii. The message can
not be urgent. They must be writ
ten plainly on one side Of the paper
and left at the Bell Radio corpo-
ration.
Station 5ZAS is the best equipped
amateur station in Birmingham and
one month it handled IS messages.
This last month dropped down to 60
with the aerial down a week, which
is not bad record.
Graham McKernall states that he
L. re CHI SGT
using a tickler He says that this
constructed it himself. He has heard
many of the broadcasters of this
side Of the country and the most dis
tant station he has heard yet is
WIZ in Newark, N. j. He has only
had the set a short while.
Hewlett Mimic, Twenty eighth
street, north, has constructed single
tube set using variometers and a
varicoupler. He has heard many sta
lions, among which is the Havana
station, PWX.
Fred Rennecker, Twenty eighth
street, north, is the owner of a
home made crystal set over which he
hears the local concerts broadcast
by WSY >.
Edgar Stevens. 1916 Sixteenth
street, south. who recently was 1en-
toned in Dots and Dashes for own
ing crystal set, now has a home
made vacuum tube set using one
| stage of audio frequency amplifica-
| ton. He is getting fine results from
| his set and has heard so stations
| on 1t already. He has heard KFAF
| in Denver. Coll, very clearly and his
| most distant stations Is XIII, the sta
ton in Los Angeles.
Edward Bostick is still getting
| good results from his single tube
| set. He has now received 80 sta
| tons and two of these are in Los
| Angeles (KIIJ and KWH). or, l be-
| lieve, the Land of Radio, IS the XIII
a station in San Francisco and PWX
| in Havana on his list.
Last week 1 said I was wondering
whether the exams, which have just
ceased would have any effect on
radio or whether radio would have
any effect on the exams. l am sorry
| to relate that the truth was that the
| exams had nc effect on radio but
radio had an effect on them Many of
| the radio bugs had longer faces than
they had had in long time. unless
| it was when the station QRM started.
\ 1t looks like the examinations scared
| them so they were afraid to listen
| in, but they had wasted so much time
| listening through the term that it
was too date.
Lately there has been a disturbance
| in the ether that has been reported
| by many of the local listeners. l have
not mentioned it as | wanted to get
as much information about it as
: possible before presenting it to our
readers to discuss and try to locate.
1t has been going now for several