Evening star., 1925-02-01
RADIO QUERIES
Radio Editor:

Radio Editor:
1 heard a tenor solo, Mother Ma
chree," from a station on a wave
length of about $50 meters. The call
letters sounded like WMAL. The sta
tton's slogan was, Most southern sta
lion in the United States" What sta
tion was this, its wave band, ETC.?
Thursday night l heard kFRU,
BrlstoW, Okla. What is the stations
wave length, etc? l also heard
thursday night test program from
Will, St. Louis. on a low wave length.
Have no record of such station.
Are they test call letters or is it a new
stations. SALOMAN
NQAM. Miami, Fla, uses the slogan
The most southern radiocasting sta
tion In the United States" 1t Is
lO0-watt station and transmits on
2S3-meter wave band. KFRU is
new station is Bristow, Okla. and
transmits on wave length OF 297I
meters. Its power is 500 watts WILL
Is d new station in ST. Louis, Mo, op-
Grated by the Benson Radio Company.
1t transmits on 275-meter wave
band.
Radio Editor:
There are three crystal sets in our
institution. the National Training
school for Girls, and would like to
ask why WCAP is always better
heard than WRC? Does the distance
from the broadcasting station make
any dtTerence?-F. FORD.
"CAP's signals are stronger than
those sent out by WRC The dis
tance from the station to the receiv-
Ing set does make a material differ
ence In the strength OF signals
Radio Editor:
Saturday morning about 4:45
o'clock / turned on my radio and the
only thing 1 got aside from code was
jazz orchestra Before | could get
the call letters it disappeared and 1
could not tune in the station again.
Judging from the faintness Of the
signals under ideal receiving condi-
tions and the fact that / used head
phones. 1 imagine the station was
far away. Can you identify the sta
tion ?-W. +. H
The advance radio programs did
not schedule a concert at the time
you heard the jazz orchestra Per-
haps some of the readers can identify
the station.
Radio Editor:
VIII you please tell me in the next
issue of your paper If any ball games
were broadcast from the Washington
American League base ball park out
side of the world series?-C. A
RUDD.
The world series were the only
ball games broadcast from the
Washington American League ball
park.
Radio Editor:
Early last Sunday morning about
go o'clock, / heard a station with
the slogan Enemies of Sleep" Can
you or any radio fan tell me what
station it was?-JOHN w. TEEPELL.
You heard the "Nighthawks" at
wDAF, Kansas City. They are known
q the enemies of sleep"
Radio Editor:
I am the owner of two-tube set
which brings in distant stations very
clearly when WRC and WCAP are
off the air. While the local stations
are on l can do nothing but enjoy
their programs.
I have listened to a score of sta
tions, but viii almost bet my life
that WRC and WCAP are two of the
best in the country. Despite the
quality of their programs, l believe
something should be done to give
the owner of small, non -selective sets
an opportunity to get the distant sta
tions early in the evening. AS
things are now, we have to sit up
TO the wee sma' hours to get the dis
tsnt stations, and by that time those
within our range have signed off.
Washington does not have silent
night like Chicago and other cities, so
why can't the local stations be pre-
vailed upon TO sign off at the time
hi hod
I'm the newspapers? Several times
during the past months friends have
come to my house to listen to GER
tain out-of-town station, but they
went away with nothing but a mem
ory of the music broadcast by the
local stations. Each time WRC and
wCAP stayed on the air longer than
tho schedule published. Other sta
tions clear the air on time, so why
not WRC and WCAP?-JOHN IL.
lRHARDT.
Radio Editor:
I read with interest the description
pf the peculiar QRM experienced by
the fan on r street and wish to say
something regarding It, Out here
in Clarendon (Virginia) we have
poorly protected and poorly insulated
high tension wires and step-doWn
transformers, which we thought
caused the QRM. All members of our
radio club experience the same inter-
ference, usually on rainy or windy
nights AS far as possible the radio
FIub would like to try and stop this
noise, or at least find the cause. We
would welcome suggestions from our
amateur friends in Washington.-M.
y. MASON, SIS Maryland avenue,
Clarendon, Va.