New Britain herald., 1926-12-16
Through tie Static

Another pretty fair night to be
 chalked upon the credit side of the sheet. There was the usual crowd. ' ing of stations, of course, but noth.
 ing to write to Congress about, and
 it wouldn't do any good anyway, ap- parently. There was no static and there was no interference either
 Fading was noticeable on some sta-
 tions. We accomplished average dis l tance. WBZ, Springfield, for some un. known reason, broadcast on a wave
 length of approximately 323 meters
 It wasn't mistake, either, because
 the station stayed there from the
 time it first went on the air until it
 signed off for the evening. Apparent
 ly it is the desire of the engineers
 to get away from all that interfer- ence on 333 meters, but they were in a much better place up there than they are now. The station completely
 blankets WSAI, WGR, KOA, CNRA,
 VITAE, WBNY, WKRC, WSMB and
 couple of other Canadians. We
 don't know what they are going to
 do about it.
 Early in the evening, we had more trouble with regenerative sets than we have had in months. It was absolutely the worst hour we ever
 put in. No matter where we tuned regenerative was to be found, sooner or later, if it wasn't already on the wavelength waiting for us.
 There's another kick we want to get off our chest, pardon the meta phor. It seems too bad that some thing can't be done to cause WODA, Paterson, N. J., to move farther away from WTAM, Cleveland. When both stations are on the air, it's im- possible to bring in either one of them, and most of the time WODA Is completely out of the running. Such a move would benefit both sta tions and, since WTAM had the wave first, WODA is elected. There cer- tainly is an awful riot when both of them get started.
 Just before o'clock We stumbled across WQAM, Miami, broadcasting a record of the amusements down there. in the theatrical line. The an- nouncer told all about the movies and the vaudeville and we had quite a pleasant time until WIRED, Lans- ing. came along and we found our self listening to-WREO, Lansing, Michigan. WQAM came through loud, but the latter station just swiped the wave and we were tag ged "it." An orchestra played Red Riding Hood" and a WOW called Up Jumped The Devil Both of them were played rather old d-mannishly, which is somewhat of a knock at the old men. The orchestra sounded as if the members had never heard of dance music. Stick to the classics, old-timers, because no matter what organization it may be. classics and jazz can't be mixed, if the group happens to specialize on the classics.
 "The Old Fall River Line." popular song of years ago, was kind- ly dealt with last evening by the Imperial Imps at WIZ. It was in cluded in medley of old time hits, and another which was well sung was "Lindy.' The 1mps are masters of harmony and we listened to near ly all of their program. I'm Going 10 Park Myself in Your Arms" and Little Lonesome Girl" were two others. WIZ acted all right.
 WLS, Chicago, was very loud and we listened to the announcement Of the winners of the Cornhuskers' Con- test It was stated that 937.000 let ters were received, and we feared at first that somebody was going to read 'em all. Even when it was stat ed that it would take a man eight years to read the entire number, our fears weren't lessened, because that's nothing for radio announcer We've heard them acknowledging telegrams when the time consumed seemed to be more than eight years.