Evening star., 1925-02-16
RADIO QUERIES

Radio Editor:
Can crystal set be attached to a
phonogranp SO that the amplifying
devices Of the phonograph will act
as q loud speaker? II so. please
state how it Is done.-CHARLES S.
GRANT.
There is device on the market
to connect radio sets to monographs,
but the signals from the average
crystal set are too feeble to be heard
after travelling through the tone
chamber of a phonograph.
Radio Editor:
The station heard by Mary E.
Veihmeyer, inquired about in your
column. was wCBD. Zion. Ill. heard
it on my loud speaker. r.
SCHULZ.
Radio Editor:
Can you advise me through your
column what station in signing off
Thursday night at 11:1O o'clock played
Taps" on the piano just after saying
Good nIght?" Also whether this is
| the stations regular custom or IL it
was something specialize. E. CUR
RIER.
wSB, Atlanta. Ga, sounds TAPS"
either on the piano or cornet when
signing off. depending on the nature
Of program. 1t probably is the sta
tion you heard.
Radio Editor:
The answer to the query of Dewey
L. Smith in your column Thursday re-
garding the station broadcasting last
Monday morning between 7:15 and
1870 o'clock. probably is KDKA,
Pittsburgh. KDKA is on the air at
Z o'clock every morning with exer-
cises of "the daily dozen" variety.
Each exercise Is announced by num-
Der and description. followed by the
piano music and counting to assist
the listener in executing the exer-
cise.-ALEX McC. ASHLEY.
Radio Editor:
In answer to Dewey l. Smith's s
query, would say he heard the
| health exercises given by kDkA'
Pittsburgh.-E. E. J., Dickerson, Nd.
Radio Editor:
wish to call the attention of DIX
fans to the statement on page / OF
The Evening Star Of Thursday, 1T Is
rumored that the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company station
will ask the Department OF Com
merce for a separate wave so 1t may
broadcast simultaneously with WRC
without interfering with its pro-
grams"
II these two stations are assigned
different wave lengths we might as
we'll throw away our expensive re-
ceivers, use crystal sets, and go to
bed at 10 o'clock. for we shall never
be able to get anything but local
it will be all over the dials. even with
neutrodynes-from to 1880 o'clock
or later.
have seen a good deal of criticism
in the New York papers about the
unending dance orchestras with their
crashing pianos. 1 would like to see
a vote taken on the dance orchestras
from fans who are not new in the
game These - orchestras may
pay the expense of broadcasting. but
to the. average listener they are an
awful bore, sometimes playing the
same "raggetty-jag. boom. boom"
every mighty. B. F., DIX fan.
Radio Editor:
Please tell me the location and the
names of the owners of the following
stations: 3AFL, 3PP, 3DWT and 3PR.
Your radio column is more than ap-
preciated.-ALToNE E. GIBSON.
Station BAIL is owned by r. c..
Mayo, 1903 Shallcross avenue, Will
Fmington, Del; 3PP by L. A. Wait, IA
Penn avenue, Souderton, Pa, and 3PR
by w. L. Fox. 2220 Thirty-fifth place,
Washington, D. c. Have no record
of 3DWT.
Radio Editor:
In your column last Thursday Paul
F. Cain complains of unusual inter-
ference last Sunday night. And while
he did not give a great deal of de-
scription in his article, I believe it to
be the same as that heard in this
vicinity day or night and every night
as a rule. There is an exceptional
night or portion OF a night once in a
while, but it has been going full
blast for the past two weeks, and l
am surprised there has not been more
complaint about it.
The interference in question is a
loud cracking Of frying noise, sug-
gestive, to my mind, of a rapid sparkling
electrical device, possibly. There is
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