San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24
ALE AMERICAN
| STATIONS TO
| Be SILENT (.
Light, Official Broadcast
| Paper, Will Confirm
Local Reception.

Polish up the old set; look for loose
connections; inspect your ground con-
hection and your aerial; recharge
your "A" battery and il your 'eB"
batteries are noisy, put on some new
bnes; and "get set"
| For Sunday night at 10 o'clock
1 America goes off the air, and Europe
will come booming in!
That is, Europe will try its best to
walk into your homes in San An
konio between 10 and II o'clock every
night this week.
BEGINS TONIGHT
For Sunday marks the inauguration
Of International Radio Week; and the
San Antonio Light, official newspaper
committee in San Antonio and South
Pectcd programs each day of foreign
programs and act as the local repre-
sentative of the committee in con-
forming the claims of Southwest Tex
es listeners as to the reception of
programs from across the sea.
4 On this page appears the general
where in Sundays paper appear some
practically all Of the European sta
hons.
GOOD RECEPTION?
Because of the cool weather in San
Antonio Sunday, reception Sunday
hight should be extremely good, ana
large number of San Antonio listen
ers should be able to catch the Euro
pean signals during the initial hour
6f broadcast.
Here's the way 10 receive official
6onfirmation from the San Antonio
Hight and the International Radio
hWeek committee
Y I. Be sure that your watch Is
hitting on all twelve cylinders and set
Exactly with Western Union.
2. Have two or more pencils
sbarpened and necessary scratch paper
where It can be easily reached.
Z 3rd. Keep your nerves steady, and
Cont get unduly excited should you
bear something with your dials set
where 2I0, London, should come in.
il might be static, you know, or n
poise from q nearby leaky trans
former.
NOTE TIME.
18th. Should you hear the call let
kcrs OF foreign station, make a note
Of the exact time, what was actually
said, and the music that followed the
announcement, carefully refraining
from misplacing your notes later in
the excitement incident to tuning for
other stations.
9Th. Sit down and write a letter
br a card to the Radio Editor of The
San Antonio Light, Sunday night.
Don't wait until Monday to write,
for you might not live through the
day, you know, and your great, great
grandchildren would never know Of
the distinction that might have come
20 their venerated ancestor.
eth. In your letter or card, tell
what you heard, and when you heard
1 WRITE, DON'T PHONE.
i And mail the letter or card, don't
bring them TO The Light office. They
must have the proper postmarks in
order to be entered in the distance
contest and be eligible for any of
the prizes Offered for best reception.
fJn. LION DOtuer dDOuL ttlepuoH-
ing the Radio Editor. He will be
busy reading cards and letters may
be, and if not, he viii be doing other
things to earn his approximately three
square meals per day. to answer all
of the telephone calls that might
rome In.
As soon as your letter or card is
received, 1t will be compared with
what was actually happening in Eu-
rope at the station you heard, and
The Light will have exclusive inform
htion as to what actually transpired
Rcross the sea. Should it eventuate
that you are correct in what you
thought you heard, your letter will
be published In The Light, and for
warded to the International Radio
Week committee and entered in the
contest.
All right, fans! Who's going to
hear the largest number Of European
stations Sunday night and the rest Of
this week?
Let's hear from you.
Nr rYnnf 1910 n AlTN