Evening star., 1924-01-28
RADIO NEWS

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WMU, the Doubleday Hill Electric
Company station, will resume its
broadcast service this afternoon after
more than three weeks of silence
Many improvements have been made
in tho transmitting apparatus de-
signed TO increase the power and
better the modulation and radiation
The antenna design also has been
changed.
JOY +. Morgan, editor Of the Jour
nal Of the National Education Asso-
citation, will speak from WRC this
evening on Education Today for the
Home of Tomorrow" The outstand-
ing features on the Voice Of the
Capitals" program includes a con
cert by the saXOphone family from
Irving Bernstein's Wardman Parl
Hotel Orchestra. and dance music by
the Carolinians.
Accompanying the delegates Of the
United States Chamber of Commerce
now on a special three-week tour o,
the middle west and Pacific coast 4
unique radio installation consist.
ing of specially designed RadioIa
super receiver. This re.
Ceiver is the one that recently added
chapter to the history of radio
when broadcast programs were re.
produced in an alright steel caissor
ninety rect under the Hudson river
New York city. This feat of inter.
ceptlng radio signals under such ad.
verse conditions indicated the begin.
ming OF the development of apparatus
for emergency and routine communi.
cation in mining and submarine oper.
ations.
The receiver uses only six WD-11
vacuum tubes. yet so great is its
SenSltlVlty' that it is not unusual 10
PICK UP signals from stations $500
to 5000 miles distant. A small loor
ahIenha IS used instead OF the con-
Fentlonal outside wire for pick up.
The special car Advacne is carrvinp
the party and the radio receiver pro-
Nldes means of obtaining an nm
interrupted flow of news items. stock
ana market reports and entertain
ment from the air.
kTW, the Westinghouse station al
Chicago, is broadcasting special pro
grams for the benefit of the party
Ihis service Will be continued
througout the duration Of the tour.
iN' IL AicLAiAts, SI w Td-
dio service engineer, is in charge of
the installation. An interesting sta
tion log of the trip will undoubtedly
result from this. the most extensive
railroad tour ever made with radio
installed. Mr.. Holmes states thai
changes of direction of the train or
its speed have no effect on the broad
casting reception. 1t is only necessary
to keep the antenna in line with a
transmitting station or TO make use
of a special EXETER circuit in order
to follow any program.
ALFRED CURRADI, 81 A street
northeast, writes the radio editor:
would some radio fan please in
form me as to what station on the
night of January "a was broadcastine
the song, Jingle Bells and whose an
nouncer remarked, 1T looks as il
there will be seven feet of snow on
the ground by tomorrow morning.
This station was WDAY, Fargo
n. d.
"E. S. H." asks: "While listening
to concert from station WY
Schenectady. n. Y, at 7:15 pm.
Thursday. Schenectady was silent foi
n moment. They did not sign off but
between the announcement I heard
the following:
Hello, hello, hello, hello, this is
SASY calling 3ASO.' Can you or some
one else advise me just what this was
and where 1t came from? Also this
was heard on a one-tube set"
3ASY, Philadelphia, was calling
SASO, Washington, d. c. Both are
amateur stations.
''E. Fl. NJ" asks, What station was
broadcasting in a foreign language
Saturday at 1870 am? They were
also playing Yes, We Have Nc
Bananas
AS to station WBAK you inquire
about, that is commercial station
located at Harrisburg. Pa The other
station you heard likely was KFJD
Greeley, Colo.
IN. S. F." in a communication te
the radio editor, writes:
II want to add a word to the in
dignant complaint in The Star OF
some amateur breaking in and ruin
ing a program being broadcast by
WCAP Some pest exists in oul
neighborhood (Petworth) also. Last
Sunday night he kept breaking in be-
tween and 1880. insistently urging
a fellow transgressor to come on in.
and then between 9 and 10 utterly
ruined the fine concert being rendered
by Skinner Organ Co. and q chorus
from n. Y.
His wave length is not above ESQ
] understand, and here he was in or
469 meters, / hope the radio in
spector gets him also, and I shall
leave no stone unturned to assist ir
his apprehension. Such coarse lam
guage is not to be endured as he en-
He was heard as far as Takoma
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