New Britain herald., 1926-12-27
Through tie Static

Don't expect mucn tOday because
 if you do you're going to be disap- pointed. Christmas comes but once
 a year and when it comes to review ing the programs of three nights in succession you can count us out right
 away. We'll give you the highlights, beginning with conditions. The ek-end maintained only a fair av-
 craze. On Friday night, there was excellent volume, but the buzzing and noise were terrific. On Saturday night, conditions were excellent,
 without much noise and lots of vol ume. Last night things took a slump again, at least until late in the eve
 ming. Not much could be said for volume and, authough there was no noise, fading caused considerable trouble. There seemed to be no life
 at all, as far as the waves were con- cerned and stations came through in
 hit or miss fashion that was heart breaking. Later in the evening things
 braced up to some extent, but it was too late for any real good to be done
 and that's the way it stands.
 Everything was Christmas carols
 on Friday night and it was possible
 to hear them rendered in every pos-
 sible manner, as organ solos. as en-
 semble presentations, as vocal solos
 and as quartet music, as bass horn solos, as tipple tinklos, and every
 thing else. At midnight the air was
 densely populated. Stations all over the country were offering Christmas
 features and the eastern stations
 which usually sign off early, broke
 the precedent and broadcast Christ mas eve services from churches Of
 every denomination under the sun.
 At 1:30 o'clock in the morning there
 were as many stations on the air as
 there are at G:25 o'clock in the eve
 ming.
 On each of the three evenings in
 question, conditions seemed to inn
 prove gradually as the evening wore
 along and, doubtless, If we had re-
 mained at the set until 1 or o'clock in the morning, We would have en- 1oyed excellent reception. had there
 been any thing to receive. But we didn't do that and so we had to ac- cept the conditions offered between 6 and 12 o'clock.
 The new set owners were busy all day Saturday and Sunday. To our way of thinking, every child in the | neighborhood and every adult with the mentality of child was broad casting with a regenerative receiver. | Honestly, we haven't heard such squeals since we visited the Chicago , stock yards. We were especially in dignant when Q regeneratiVe set 1 broke onto WEBS wayclength yester- | day afternoon and ruined about one half of the program by the Boston Symphony orchestra, a program which was especially interesting since the numbers played were those ! which everyone knows, Every station yesterday was thicldy infested with . suueals and we had q tough time, don't forget it. We sincerely hope that some one of those rcgeneratlVc set owners will get a brain-storm some day and will wake up to the fact that he is annoying somebody else.
 To all owners Of now sets: If your set squeals and whistles 2s you bring in a station, or rather, if you hear a whistle of the carrier wave when you're bringing in a station, shut down on the current, That whistle is going out in the air and is travelling q distance of over quarter of a mile, bringing agony to operators ot other sets in your vicinity. Please be careful, will you, fcNers. It isn't much to ask and you might just as well learn the correct way of oper- ating that set at the start. When you . bring in a station and you hear whistle, shut down on your current until the whistle is gone; don't stay there and run your dials back and forth just because the sQueal sounds . cute. + you knew how anxious oth- CT fans were to get at inc throat Of the fellow making th enoise, you'd be more careful. lust a pleasant re- ouest. We know you'll do your best. Listen some night and hear all the . souoaIs on the air and then you'll . realize how sets sounds. Get the fel- low who sold you the set to show you the correct way 10 operate it, in case he hasn't already. And, if he | won't show you, give IS a ring. We'll ! show you how.