New Britain herald., 1925-03-21


 announcer 10 say, although he might | have remarked that the name of tho station was 5%X.
 Now a word about how all that | was done, The signals were sent from the Hotel Savoy over land | wires to the high-power at Chelms- ford, England. with the 5XX' call | letters. There the signals vert trans- ferred 10 a 10000 watt radio tcle- phone transmitter for transmission | on 1900 meter wave length, On this side of the pond these signals | were intercepted on super-hetro" dyne receiver operating in conjunc- ton with ten-mie wave antenna, located at Belfast, Maine, thus spanning the Atlantic ocean, or a dis stance of somewhat less than 5000 l miles. The waves which reached | Belfast were amplifed an almost countless number of times before be- ing fed into a short wave transmltter for rebroadcasting. From Belfast short wave transmission formed the next link in the chain, the waves travelling 10 the laboratory of WIZ | in New York city. Then they were relayed by land wire to the control room of the New York station.
 WGY also took part In this broad casting feature on March IA, receiv- ing the signals direct from Belfast. Both stations will continue this re- search work, it is understood.
 WIN presented George Olson and His Music shortly after 8 o'clock, | and this feature occupied us for sev- eral minutes. Homeland. the hit of Louis XIV" one of New York's latest musical comedies, was played as only George Olson can play. The trumpets, high in the background, added great dabs of color to the program Then the brass quartet of this band rendered a difficult selec- ton. a concert number with many runs and tough" passages. Then came "Titina," that number which apparently is taking the United States by storm, judging by the number of times 1t is played each evening. "Titina" is from the Pug zles of 1925" and, to date, we haven't heard it played in a more satisfactory manner.
 We fooled around among stations ,.i it, hn ntaninu ri nc hifG | from one and bits from another. | . WGY, as usual, came in loud"on all wave lengths but it's own, where it | was untitled and sounded as If the 1 program was being broadcast to the accompaniment of buzz saw. I'll Trovatore" was being presented by the WGY grand opera company. WTIC at Hartford presented a 1 program of usual interest although l we listened in at the station for only | few minutes, during the broadcast ing from the Hotel Bond, where | Emil Heimberger's orchestra was holding sway. We heard the last few strains ot "Copenhagen."
 
 WGR at Buffalo had the heebie- jeebies all evening and the wave l shook. The Vincent Lopez Hotel | Statler dance orchestra broke out at times with some music, although we ! could not get what it was all about. It was fun listening 10 the station and hearing about one out of about ! every four notes sent out on the air. WCCO presented an Interesting 1 dance program, being heard to good i advantage, as We are wont 10 say. l We don't remember a thing about | the program, as we failed to jot down the numbers as they were played, but take it from us we en- 1 joyed 1t.
 WCEE at Elgn. Illinois, Charles 1 Erbstein's station, a sister to WTAS, 1 was hampered by generator hum which made reception extremely rGaa- ] ged. Contributions to the Tornado 1 Fund were being discussed when we listened in and the sympathetic man. ner in which the announcer handled i the subject s worthy of note. Sev- eral people who contributed 10 the l fund wrote that they had lost a sis ter, a brother or q parent in the great wind, and the announcer aI- 1 ways had a word Of condolcnce for these people.
 "WSB at At-lan-tah, Jaw-j jah," asl Lambdon Kay, the Little Colonel of Radio" would say, presented a hired hands program. We heard none of the program, but we heard someone from Nebraska sowing the seeds of murder by telling his radio | audience that Omaha, Nebraska, isl the best spot on earth. when every one knows that Atlanta cant be beat.
 "Honolulu." new number to us, was played from WHO, Dos Moines, Iowa. The station came in loud al- though. being on high wave length, code interfere1 considerably. The clarinet was the feature of the band, as this instrument was constantly wandering away from the rest of the players and kicking it's heels on the roof.
 We have just found out that VIC did write something about WCCO's program. It was by George Osborne's Original orchestra. Among the num- bers played were Flag That Train" blues in the nth degree, "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" and Someone Like You" The H. fusion of a railroad train starting up and fading out in the distance, played in conjunction with the first number, was rather marred by the fact that the drummer used an au- !