Evening star., 1924-06-29

service is omclaliy opened IueSuay, |
however, thirteen of the flying field
relay stations along the route. with
headquarters at Washington. already
equipped with radio. telegraph trans |
mission stations will cooperate. These
stations, situated about ESQ miles
located as follows: Hampstead, l.. l.;
Bellefonte, Pa: Cleveland and Bryan.
Ohio; haywood. near Chicago. ILL.,;
Iowa City, Iowa: Omaha and North
Platte. Neb.: Cheyenne and Rock
Spring; Wyo.: Salt Lake City. Utah;
at Rawlings, wyo.. is not yet
equipped. a leased wire is used from
Reno TO San Francisco to complete
he chain and avoid interference with
'acific coast radio stations. Operat-
ing on a working wave between $500
each other on the S.99s-meter wave.
but shut down to listen every fifteen
minutes. for emergency calls THIS
chain of radio stations acts as an
furnishes quick service for planes.
transmitting advance weather reports
and orders to stations where planes
and pilots relieve each other on their
cross-country flight. Air mall will
be carried across the country in APP
proximately thirty-three hours each
way. All plane arrivals and depar-
lures are now reported to WWh at
Washington. which station can itself
communicate directly as far west as
Cheyenne under goon conditions.
All the air mail radio stations are
equipped with 6-kilowatt arc sets, most
of which were supplied by the Ship
ping Board. On July l twenty-four-
hour service at stations between san
Francisco and Cheyenne and May
wood and New York will be main
tanned. but between haywood and
Cheyenne, where the night flying is
done. only a sixteen-hour schedule
will be necessary.
special mail planes ready for service
and forty-two pilots, all familiar with
the transcontinental routes over
which they will fly. Ten planes a
Jump" the pilots also relieving each
other.
The Voice from the Plane.
While testing out an airplane ra-
dio-phone transmitter at NcCook
Field. Dayton, recently the embryo
announcer, Mr.. Studebaker, caused a
commotion in that section of radio
land. Tiring of repeating numbers
and phrases for the ear of the re-
ceiving operator at the flying field.
he started singing. Suddenly there
burst upon the air: London Bridge
is falling down, falling down, falling
down, etc"
The phone in the radio laboratory
| of McCook Field began to ring loud
and continuously. To the operators
| answer. feminine voice announced
| with an airplane on her radio set
There's a man up there, who seems
to be in distress" she continued: "he
keeps. calling that he is falling
down. and l thought you might want
to send up another plane to help
him"
| 1t was a joke on Mr. Studebaker,
| who now sticks to meaningless num-
bers and words when testing out the
airplane transmitter. ..
Fights Foreign Radio Expansion.
I An effort to block the sale of
American made radio apparatus and
to assume popular American radio
trade names for local makes of appa-
ratus is reported from New Zealand.
Actually. the block is against all
radio goods not manufactured by the
Amalganated Wireless Company,
Ltd. of Australia. This company is
said to be branch Of the Marconi
Company of. England; it operates as
la branch by virtue of the. annual
payment to the Marconi company of a
100000 annual fee. The Amalgamated
GO "Co III <hdolt dh0, Will Hll-
lion shares of stock, OF which 50o,-
DOL shares are controlled by the Aus
tralian commonwealth, the govern
ment. paying half the royalty to the
Marconi Company Of England.
An agreement is understood to
exist between the Marconi Company
Of England and the Radio Corporation
of America by virtue of which the
Amalgamated, upon payment of the
aforementioned royalties to the
Marconi company, is permitted to use
circuits, designs and patents held by
the Radio Corporation of America
1t is now reported, however, thai
the Amalgamated Is showing a tend.
ency to assume trade names which
! have been made. popular by the ad.
Vertisfng and quality of production
, of American firms. The term "Radi
, phone" for example, is being used
; In some cases local distributors hav'
! discovered this use of the trade name:
in time to avoid sales under the mis-
!. apprehension that the goods wer'
: genuine American products.
If the Amalgamated company regis
, tered the names Of popular American
goods not registered in New Zealant
as their own, they could demand
: royalty on every instrument sol,
: there under the name. Such Al
attempt has been made by th'
Amalgamated people, reports from
2 authentic and reliable sources state
Z in connection with the use. of tn