Evening star., 1923-02-25
BY COMMA NDER STANFORD
HOOPER, u. s. n.
Copyright. 1922

The nation wide interest in popu.
lar radio has resulted in an ever
growing demand for standardized
service. Not only is dependable serv-
ice wanted in the radio market, but
the public demands at least some de-
gree of uniformity in apparatus Of
fered for sale.
Moreover, protection is naturally
desired by the general public against
extraVagant claims and actual fraud,
end that mysterious agency we call
radio lends itself to both in large
measure today.
Our radio manufacturing industry
has now grown to huge proportions
in the aggregate and in no other
large industry can the public be SO
easily victimized by irresponsible
producers and INSCRIPTIONS dealers
aS'in radio.
1.-The government with it's. radio
laboratories and trained techn al
14rsonuel is not subject to victim &c .
tbn in radio, but the general puL-ss,
Which knows little or nothing of the
sfionce of radio, is today without
70 the government or to some re-
stonsibic agency sponsored by the
government for aid.
Standardization along logical and
Wise directions will therefore prove
ten etcial not only to the ever-in-
cfeaSinS army of radio fans but also
~ the RESPONSIBLE manufacturers and
~ the responsible distributors and
dealers who have no desire to mis-
represent the articles they sell. but
guarantee them for what they are
worth and no more.
1T Will also benefit the Army and
Navy radio services by gradually
eliminating as far as possible super
fdous equipment and spare parts
which are not Interchangeable. there
BY resulting in economy of operation
of their extensive radio services
Efforts OF Navy Radio.
fThe Navy radio. having been the
principal customer in the radio mar
Fet prior to the advent OF the broad
cast service, has sndeayored to stand
ardize radio as much as possible con-
sistsnt with the rapidly developing
STAGES of the radio art
Difficulties were always encoun-
tered, however, due to the wide variety
Of types Of equipment which had
gradually been placed in service At
widely separated stations on ship
board and on shore: to the patent
s$ghts as they existed and their ia
fprencc on the manufacturers control.
1Dng them; to the differing designs
aHd methods of manufacture Of
equipment and parts not restricted by
SAtentS as employed by various manu-
fGcturers. and various other reasonA
kMUreovcr, the volume of radio
equipment produced prior TO our en-
tkapcc into the world war. though
much larger in this country than else
where. was very small compared with
fbat produced for war purposes and
the subsequent volume of trade fol-
]kwing the advent of the broadcast
6krvice.
Hiadical changes in design and meth
DDS of manufacture in the early
sages of the radio industry, there
FIRE, constituted a serious matter,
ESPECIALLY for the producer of the
tteh comparatively small outputs.
Nevertheless. considerable progre1s
tbward standa ardiZation was gradu-
ally brought about periodically, due
fiRcipally to adoption by the Navy
rkdio of certain set standards, in
Neeping with the progress of the
1kdio art. for its extremely important
ebipboard stations of the fleet and the
1Eust Important corresponding sta
tkDHs on shore. and its insistence that