New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1925-10-02

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played numbers requested by the
radio fans.
Announcer at WTAS stated that
the station Is going to sign off on
Monday nights hereafter just to
please nine people and a corn doe
tor In Chicago. There has been con-
siderable disturbance on the part of
Chicago fans regarding the persistent
hroadcasting of several suburban
stations on Mondays, which is silent
night for Chicago broadcasters.
| A fellow by the name OF Fred
Shlmsh Of Chicago must have been
really hungry for Moonlight and
Roses" last evening. We tuned In on
WLW at Cincinnati and the Doherty
Melody Boys were broadcasting. The
| announcer read off list OF names of
people requesting selections and
there was Freds asking for Moon
light and Roses" We tuned In on
WTAS and there was Fred's name
again, asking for Moonlight and
Roses" We don't know how many
other stations received his request
but there are two for you TO chew
over.
| WGBu at Fulford- By The Sea,
Florida. came In with unusual vol
ume, this being explained by the an
| nouncer, who said that the station
was operating on higher power than
usual. We heard Blue steele's Or
chestra, accompanied by cute little
carrier whistle from some other sta
ton, play Yes, Sir! That's My
! Baby"
Just one thing more. The Silver
town Cord orchestra was on the air
for its weekly program from WEAF
and the chain of II stations. They
acted out little story about young
fellow who got married, and whose
| wife deserted him for a bass drum
mer and broadcast announcer. Well,
he got pretty Respondent and went
away to forget his troubles. He went
to Spain and left there and went to
the Orient. The orchestra left him in
| Sweetie Turned Me Down." The an
| nouncer told the story and wove into
| 1t the name of we'll known dance
tunes. Whenever he came to one of
! these names the orchestra started
| up and illustrated what the an
nouncer was doing his best to ex-
press. 1t was a novel broadcast.
Herman D. Taylor, chief operator
Of VITO, last Saturday evening from
s to 1920 communicated with Lieut..
John L. Reinartz, radio operator Of
the BoWdoin, of the Macmillan OK
petition. Lieut.. Reinhartz gave his
position as Hopedale Harbor off the
Coast of Labrador, midway between
the Hudson Straits and the Straits Of
Bell Isle, Sc degrees north latitude.
| Taylor was operating WTIC's ex-
perimental short wavelength set I'M
der license 1XG, and when he es-
tablished contact with the MacMil-
Ian expedition was working on 40
meters. He accepted two messages,
one of 800 words and one of 450
words, and forwarded them to their
| destination.
| Lieut.. Reinartz gave Taylor a
message for Mrs. Reinartz CHS
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| Tor took his message, telephoned it
| to Mrs. Reinartz and got an answer
| which he transmitted to Lieut..
Reinartz within two minutes. Rein
artz explained that the signals from
Hartford were coming in clear and
strong, and when Chief Operator
| Taylor said that he experienced some
| fading in the signals from the Bow
dom, Reinartz explained that several
of his shipmates had entered the
radio room, and had come too close
to the transmttcr, their body ca
pacity affecting the signals enough
to cause fading.
On Sunday evening Chief Operator
Taylor of VITO again made contact
with Lieut.. Reinartz and told him of
the disaster which befell the S-51.
All members of the Macmillan expe-
.dition We're deeply interested and
expressed their sympathy, They par
ticularly regretted hearing of this
loss SO soon after the Shenandoah
disaster.
| 1XG short wave transmtter has
proven very efficient on long dis
lance tests and communication has
been satisfactory established with
Pacific coast stations; its apparent
range is well up toward 10000 miles.
The radio personnel of VITO, oper-
ating ING use as personal signs, +.
G. Randall, chief engineer of VITO,
"OM," Herman D, Taylor, chief or-
orator, IND" William G. Coleman,
VIC" and Milton Mix, "WM."
That's all for today thanks'
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