The independent-reporter., 1924-02-28
WONDERFUL ARTISTS
FROM STATION v. f. A. F.
(Radio News r. " l. r. Warren P.
Sprague)

(Radio News R. y. l. R. Warren P.
Sprague)
Almost every day or so a letter or
postal is received from some disturb
ed fan who has had his broadcast
program interrupted by telephone or
telegraph interference. These lis
teners who complain write that they
know the interference is caused by
some amateur In the neighborhood
and others complain about the com
mercial stations and the operators on
board ship. Some OF these COM
plants are reasonable, as it Is some
what discouraging for one to buy an
expensive receiving set and then find
all he can receive is bits of music be-
tween the crashing of code.
Still. there are two sides to every
story. Interference is part of the
radio game. There has been inter.
ference ever since the first set went
in to sending programs, and all have
been mathematically solved. This
has been done without closing any
class of stations and to the contrary,
all classes of service have steadily in
creased.
S. Kruse, technical editor Of QST,
the official organ of the American
radio relay league, has just written
one Of the most common sense artl-
cles on interference in a long time.
an working out radio problems, it is
we'll to begin by recognizing the fact
that ship to ship and ship to shore
radio is more important than all other
sorts of radio combined in a lump"
For ship service radio cannot be re-
placed There is nothing else. The
ship service has premier right-when
it nterferes with other service, that
is too bad-but the other service
hasn't much of a case Next it Is much
to recognize that for ship service, es-
pecially for small ships, the spark set
is likely to be useful for some years
to come. We may as well admit that
the ships operator is perfectly justi-
fed in working traffic on waves in the
boardcast band of wave lengths-even
when he knews that he is raising
thunder with the reception Of all radio
matter. His traffic Is the most i'm
portant stuff in the ether-it has a
radiophone material if necessary.
Notwithstanding the radio corpora
tion and the department OF commerce
are attempting to minimize the trans
mission on $50 and 800 meters and are
replacing the spark sets with tubes
as fast as possible. They are doing
1t merely to demonstrate the spirit of
cooperation that underlies radio in
many branches. The amateur can
show that he has good intentions, for
he first invented the quiet hour and
observed them reasonably well. The
majority of them are today engaged
in riding the man who still uses a
spark set. Amateur interference is
decreasing in the country at large,
partly because the amateur station is
improving, partly because the radio
set is improving
On February Sth at 1915 a. m. Will
lie Gardner of Canaan sent the fol-
lowing message to Miss Gladys
Cheney. 176 Norfolk street, Norfolk,
England; Greetings. Please re-
ply. Wire G. 2KF." On the morn
ing of February 13, at 1.42 a. m. he
England: Thanks for message. Best
luck" Signed Gladys Cheney. This
is fairly quick work in sending and
receiving a message from England,
under the weather conditions of the
past few days. These messages were
all sent by code by the ARRL on a
$50 meters. Station G2KF, is locat-
ed at London, England Good luck
Willie, keep it up.
Even though the month of Fcbru-
airy is supposed to be poor month
in business circles, the radio industry
has taken one of the biggest steps
since the institution of radio first
started.
The Somerset Radio Company were
in all probability the first dealers of
Radio Corporation goods in the State
of Maine to receive one of the new
style sets. This set Is wonder,
powerful and far reaching and has
been installed this week.
There is an exchange column con-
Quoted in conjunction with most
every radio news column in the Unit
ed States. Some of the local readers
nave suggested tndt tne eulLOr OIL lnlS
column institute an exchange column
in conjunction with the radio news
each week. If there is any one
wishing to exchange any radio sets
or merchandise with each other the
radio editor will be glad TO insert, at
the end of the radio column, such
radio exchange as his readers may
wish. There are some who have
tubes to exchange or other small
radio merchandise and your neighbor
may want what you have, and to ex-
change something that you may need
in the radio necessities. So, it will
be an easy matter to exchange
through the radio column.
Thousands of radio fans through
out the United States are well aware