Evening star., 1924-03-11
RADIO NEWS

-htIueiSSoIH D HiTleSHtu fSdlHl.
sung by the choir of the Emory M E.
Church, is one of the outstanding fea-
lures of the broadcast program to-
night of WRC. Other musical num-
bers will be furnished by a trio of
the Wardman Park Hotel Orchestra
and the Honolulans. Fred S. Lincoln,
general chairman of the committee in
charge of Washington's first annual
radio show, will make the fourth of
his series of addresses on the forth
coming event. Speeches also will be
made by Senator Copeland Of New
York and Acting Secretary of the
Navy Roosevelt. Frederic William
Vile will give his weekly radio in
depreciation of the political situation
in Washington.
Spectacular radio demonstrations
will be given by engineers of the
Radio Corporation of America at a
meeting of the Washington section of
the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers at the Cosmos Club tonight
at s o'clock. Chief among them will
be the timing of a radio signal trans
mitted from the club to Warsaw, Po-
land, and relayed back to the club. A
fourteen-tube receiving set, one of
the largest ever constructed, will be
used In the demonstration.
woo is erecting new and higher
towers to support its antenna. They
stand on the same buildings as the
old ones, although new base construc-
tion was necessary to support the ad-
ditional weight. The tops of the tow
ers are 10 feet from the roof and
2l0 feet above the street Towering
SO feet above the old towers, the new
structures make the old ones look
like pigmies.
The additional height of the aerial
will bring the natural oscillating pe-
riod of the antenna circuit to a point
considerably above woes operating
wave length. and it is expected that
the operating efficiency will be ap-
pFeciably increased.
w. N. CRADLIN, Ballston, Va, asks
the following:
kindly tell me, through your
column. what station was on the air
(Thursday) between IL pm. and IL
pm? l am sure 1t was kGO at
Oakland. Calf, but would like to
verify this, as 1T seems impossible to
receive this on a one-tube set. The
person announced the station, and
then some lady talked on vacationing
She spoke how people went away for
rest, and, instead of resting, they at
long, tiresome automobile trips, and
when they came home they were
more tired than when they started.
kDKA then interfered with its late
concert"
EDWARD LEWIS asks this:
;."Thursd evening at 1880 o'clock
I heard a basket ball game being
broadcast between Atlanta and Will
Evansville. l would greatly appreciate
was. / would also like to know
where the 'Red-head Music Maker
was broadcasting from about / am.
the same night"
Part of this letter is answered in
the following from B. SHARP, 1870
Hickman street southeast: -
frFriday morning at 2:05 o'clock I
tuned in on Wendall Hall. the Red
head Music Maker broadcasting from
station WDAF, the Night Hawks at
Kansas City, Mo. I thought some of
the radio fans would be interested to
know in what city he is at present.
81 picked up this station on home
made set. / have tuned in twenty
different stations in one night when
WCAP was blasting her loudest with
ont a wave trap Let the radio coll
umn grow. I think it is great"
EDWARD HAYS. 1898 G street
.Can you tell me what distant sta
ton broadcast Friday night about a
Snow Man z Also what StdIlON
broadcast the piece of music Across
the Border? I have a cheaply con-
structed crystal set"
WILLIAM GERHARDT. 4s B street
southwest, also inquiries about the
station broadcasting Wendall Halls
program early Friday morning. His
question likewise is answered in this
column today.
.nrr>f-ryI,J N DAVID 9s34 9th
street northwest, asks what station
.-played Mamma Loves Papa by a jazz
band at 6:34 pm. Saturday, when sta.
tfon kDKA interfered.".
I'm answer to FLOYD j. HERNDON
1901 A street southeast, will say he
hSard Wendell Hall at WDAFs Kan
sas City.
FRANK c. COOK would like to
know what station uses as its slogan
THE Voice of the North Country.
T.