Evening star., 1923-11-25
Radio Gossip and News

nuptials and tried to have the we'd
ding postponed so that the broad
casting station could supply noa only
the wedding march. but the whole
an operalogue which Mrs. Edward
Albion gave from WRC on Wednes-
day evenings program. But the
best laid schemes o. mice an men
| gang aft aglee" and the baritone,
who would have made the Wedding
contracted frog in his throat, and
ding.
But be not discouraged. reader or
radio enthusiast. Do not hesitate to
call on your broadcasting stations
for any unique and peculiar service
Music and advertisements a la carte
are gladly furnished. With a little
time for making arrangements, any
modern broadcasting station is well
equipped and perfectly willing to
| handle anything from christie ming
up. If the reader We're to examine
the histories of the myriad broad
castlng stations. he would discover
been staged on the ethereal platforms
with the stars for footlights are, to
Wit, lynching and an electrocution
Radio RelayinE Feat.
Radio relaying has proved sue
cessIui and radio has made the east
west and the west, east.
With the start of station xxx
the first radio relaying station in the
world, eastern broadcasters are now
penetrating to every city and hamlet,
the isolated squatter and the lonely
prair1es In that great section of the
United States west of the Mississippi
to the coast.
Ihe greatest pioneering achieve
| ment of the present year and the
greatest boost to radio broadcasting
h mas received since 1t was first started
mouse Electric G. Manufacturing Com
pahy In 1870, Is now an actually, and
again radio history has been made
AFTER the f1rst few nights Of opera
tion In which station kFKX in Has
snsh. Nto,. relayed the concerts of
burgh Pa.) works of the WestinR
mousse Electric and Manufacturing Com
pauS, thousands of letters from all
parls OF the west proclaim public ap-
pf1tai OF this pioneering step.
Hastings, Neb.. a town with a pom
u, uia.lon or not more than 10000 has
IN operation radio transmitting and
reiayrng na, ,n IS station. the like of which is
non on .m .ne world. and is sending out
concerts simultaneously with station
kDkA. located far away in the east
Hastings Is therefore about TO b.-
come as we'll known as Shelby. Mont.
~ ,ot' noWe.er' because of a great at
tempt that failed. but rather because
OF great pioneering step that
proved Successful
Radio reiaying is the latest and
sreatest advancement in radio engi-
neering. Technically It represents An
achievement and as public service
II has hardly been paraNeled.
ne hastings station. By means of
SSpeciaI apparatus perfected at the
Westinghouse works. is nov able to
receive kDkA's broadcasts on a
inuch higher frequency than is heard
py the public. and. through other ap-
pafhtus is able TO rebroadcast or
relay these received broadcasts on a
frequency attuned to the ordinary re-
ceiving sets.
II takes two sets of apparatus to
90 tnis: There are two transmitters
Al kDkA A. and special receiver with
a regulation transmitfer at KFKX
How the reIaying is accomplished Is
one OF the most interesting stories Of
modern engineering science.
kDkA broadcaSts on two transmit
ters simultaneously. One transmitter
sends on its $50 kiiocycles frequency
32s meters wavelength on which the
radio sets now in common use can
receive. The other transmitter broad
casts on a much higher frequency,
too high for the ordinary radio re-
ceiver to catch.
This high frequency has great car
rying power. and because OF II the
receiver located at KFkX. in Hast
ings. Neb.. Is able TO receive the
kDKA broadcasts with it's special
apparatus without interference from
other broadcasting stations.
Once received. the broadcasts are
carried by special telephone lines di-
rect to powerful transmitter, To-
Gated some distance away. These
broadcasts are then relayed through
the kFkN transmitter and sent out
on frequency on which the con-
certs or other disseminated enter
tainment can be received with radio
receivers in common use.
Thus KDKA's broadcasts, instead of
reaching the far west with diminished
power necessitating expensive and COM
plicated receiving equipment. is actually
going out into the heart of the west
with the same mower that IL leaves East