The Washington times., 1924-11-27
DAVIS MUSIC, WRC AIR FEATURE
Around
Il the
Radio Dial

L Il
tainment. day in and day out.
Because 1t has taught us to ap.
preciate more fully the comforts Of
q home.
Because it has prevented us from
squandering our dollars in places
OF so.called amusement.
Because it has brought US some
Of the worlds best music and it's
most brilliantly spoken words.
Because 1t has permitted us to
hear voices that otherwise we
might never have heard.
Because 1t has made audible i'm
pOrtant events in other cities.
And because it has provided us
with q means Of earning more or
less honest living for the past year.
For all these things we give
thanks.
The night was one in hundred,
but there was still no voices from
abroad.
our fingers ache from incessant
tumbling Of tormenting dials. Our
eyes burn from straining anxiously
at thin white lines on an ebony
surface.
Squared on by the glowing ac-
counts of our fellow listeners. we
went at this business Of tuning in
Europe last night with a feverishI
zest.
{ And nothing came OF It, Posi-
lively, undeniably, not q single
thing.
We heard nothing that by the
widest venture Of a mad imagina-
ton could we take to have been
Madrid, Paris or Aberdeen.
And we did our best.
AS we. have already stated, the
night was one Of those perfect
radio nights that come once in a
blue moon.
by Q o'clock we were as conf.
dent Of bringing in THE Voice Of
the Luxembourg Gardens" Of THE
Lungs of Piccadilly Circus" as we
were OF listening to the post-mtd-
night concert from KDKA. A
American. Canadian, Cuban and
Porto Rican stations slipped into
the loud speaker as gracefully and
az smoothly as ever we had heard
/
the other without beat.notes or
static.
And then from II to IL that mad
little groups OF determined sqealers
on. the ss2,2s5, 45O. 400 and 4o5
meter wave lengths.
Tonight, according to pre-.
arranged schedules which seem to
/ A0N a. nm
three other nights OF international
test week, the British Stations will
be broadcasting to America instead
of the Continental stations. And
with another night like the last
one, we promise results.
After all, what with WSB shoot
! ing real Scotch Cbagpipes. we mean
onto the 429 meter wave length;
with WTAM sounding like a street
corner in Madrid instead of Cleve-
land; with WGY counting the ether
In the best "Parlez-vous' style;
with Ottawa Ringing
in broad AS and following with
French announcements; with WIFI
rolling along nicely in Esperanto,
and WKAQ. San Juan, and PWX.
Havana, spanning portions Of the
Atlantic despite their broken Eng
lish-what with all this was the
need Of tuning in Europe?
We hardly knew the ether be-
tween 10 and IL. 1t was all dressed
up an IL for nasquerade-happy,
carefree and unintelligible.
The Porto Rican reception was
by far the most interesting feature
Of the evenings tunings. And, Incl
dontally, we learned a thing or two
about the San Juan WKAQ that
we have sought in vain for some
six or seven months.
Instead Of coming in where all
good, respectable 360.meter stations
arrive, the Porto Rican waves break
through approximately where
WEBB and WON make their APP.
peaFance on $40 meters-just q
notch or so above Providence and
several notches above WIN.
Last night we heard through to
the end of Spanish address, be-
lieving fully we were hearing Chi
cagO, only to have the interesting
announcement OF the San Juan
spokesman and the acknowledge
lment OF a cable from Roanoke, an
announcement of what European
stations would be on the air be-
tween IL and IL and. CHEEKY good
night. There was plenty OF strength
to the signals throughout the pro-
gram.
Among the letters received, re-.
porting on the Tuesday night tests,
are those from M. IT. Collins, 1922
9, street southeast; w. T.. Weeks,
Cottage City, Nd. and Charles. H.
Benckert, ClarendonI Va, all Of
whom apparently received the PRO.
gram Of CYL, Mexico City, during
the test hour.
The reports are all similar IN the
program heard. the time of recep.
ton, and the wave length. VINO.
Memphis, broke up the reception at
midnight for two of the above
listeners.
others letters, which, incidental.
", mote the squealinge nuisance
follow: -
&c. c." writes:
shortly after III o'clock 1 picked
UP a foreign station on about the
same wave length used by Havana.
The first / heard was contralto
solo, followed by a somewhat
lengthy announcement in a for.
eign language. This was later fol-
lowed by some banjo music"
Looks like Newcastle from what
we are told.
w. c. Greenlet writes:
Last night, about 1115, tuned
I'm IN n uianO selection T.afor %hn