The Washington times., 1924-01-10

|ROmping Around
the
Radio Dial
sy Listner-In.
He Hears. KGO.

He Hears, KGO.
We present i. e. Cheseldine,
1902 Thirteenth street southeast.
And place him first ON Listner-
ms roll Of honor.
While, the rest of us were
fiddling about trying to, get a
whisper from the coast early yes
terday morning, Cheseldine tuned
in KGo, the new Oakland, Cal,
station at 1905 a. m. And what's
more he brought in the station on
a one tube set.
That, we consider an achieye.
ment. OF course, in the future
Cheseldine's feat win be com.
monplace. But at present, it looms
large in the recital of radio pos
sibilities.
There may have been other sets
that were able to get XGO Tues
day night or that hooked up with
1t on its second broadcast effort
last night. Again we aak, who
heard it?
The Wagnerian opera, which we
failed to get Tuesday night, was
sent out ali right. Many sets
have reported receiving the music
from WYZ. And, from their COM
ments, radiopera has come to stay.
WIZ will broadcast the fifth of
their Wagnerian operas, 1.-The
night.
DENLY Praises GObs.
> Middle-western listeners-in who
think of the navy as something
outside their domain must have
been given a jolt last night as they
heard Secretary Of the Navy DENLY
pleading for larger navy. After
all, with aeroplanes and Shenan-
doahs and radio, these people are
no longer a thousand miles from
the coast 80
Secretary DENLY made a forceful
appeal against reduction of tbs
navy which he termed the greatest
peace force in the world.
That the navy functions in times
other than wartimes and functions
well was explained in a. recounting
or the rescues made at sea by MEM
bers OF the United States navy. The
oecount OF the rescue in the Sea of
Marmora Of the crew aboard a
burning ship was an immense tri.
butte to our "gobs'' and their Off
GERS.
Let's Learn Code.
The Kicker that complains of
code interference might listen in
some afternoon between five and
six to WRC.
We cannot determine how big a
class is studying the code in the
lessons broadcast from the Radio
Corporation station. but we are in
clined to believe the number OF
pupils grows daily. ~ 4
After all there is world OF
romance in. the code messages that
are flashed through the air.
And the manner in which WRC
teaches its lessons makes code a
simple affair.
Let's all enroll, and learn code.
Then we may find the dot ia sh
messages on which we have beei
complaining a little more interest;
ing occasionally than jazz.
For Fight Fans.
The pugilistically inclined radiac
can stop worrying.
The Wilson.Greb affair at Madi
son Square Garden January is. will
be told to the air by Major Andrew
y. White through WY.
The bout will be the first of the
New. Year and. from all reports.
will be delicious battle.
While referring to the future we
might set down some of the prin-
cipal coming events which WIZ
will broadcast.
The Ohio Society, of New York
dinner Saturday, from WIZ.
+. Among the speakers will he the
Japanese Ambassador, the Minister
from China, Ambassador Cyrus E.
Woods, Major General James G.
Harbord and Mrs. Eleanor Franklin
Egan.
Fourth Beethoven Concert bv the
New York Symphony Orchestra with
Walter Damrosch conducting, to.
morrow night.
Address by Gen. Henry T. Allen,
January IS.
William Robert Charley.
Attention is called by KGR to a
practice of WTAS, Elgin, ILL.,, by
which misunderstanding of the sta
tion letters is prevented.
When the station announces itself
it follows its call letters with "willy
Tommy Annie Sunny" thereby
more clearly designating its locat |
ton.
Similarity Of the call letters oil
stations near Elgin caused the
WTAS officials to seek a way tol
eliminate the trouble. The name
system followed.
We recommend it's general use.
In No Mans Land. l
There is a type of women who
wants Strawberries only in Decem-
Der, and who never cares for oys.
ters until July"
When we head that comment
upon opening up for business last
night, we pricked up our ears.
Sounded interesting, but on listen
ing further we discovered it was
KDKA's fashion talk Having
stumbled in the wrong place, we
modestly retired and yielded the
head phones to Mrs. Listener-In. |
Nor did we learn the name of the |
speaker.
Forward, Radio!
There are more, than 1000, 900
radio sets in use in the United !