New Britain herald., 1926-07-31
Through the Static

| as just fair evening, with no out standing features. There was mod
 crate volume, some fading and con-
 siderable static along toward the end
 of the evening. Until o'clock con-
 ditions were super excellent, with
 no noise of any kind to mar recep-
 tion. After that static began to sift into the atmosphere and there was plenty of it eventually.
 i
 The Travellers String quartet,
 from WTIC, offered a high class program and an enjoyable one. too.
 The 'cellist presented Melody" a composition of Vice President Dawes, which sounded, pretty good Another excellent selection was Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes," played by the quartet.
 VEAL, Baltimore, came through loud and almost completely blank eted the static which was doing it's best to raise riot. The City Park or chestra played that well known number, Invitation to The Dance" which Is played so brilliantly by the Philadelphia Symphony. The Balti- more orchestra handled it pretty well.
 We also ran into WRYA, Rich mond, which was making itself heard in no uncertain tones. There was a fiickering of static here, as at Baltimore, but it troubled us no more than it did when we were lis tening to VEAL, for the simple req son that this station came through very loud, too. The WRVA concert company was performing creditably and we heard it sing Look For The Silver Lining" and Mandy Lee" The station was untroubIed by other broadcasters.
 WFBH, New York, a station which high-hats us quite often and fails to come through with any vol ume, came down to earth and we heard a nImber. Sos Your Old Mandarin" which made us very i'll. It was done as a banjo and piano duet by Dowd and Johnson.
 
 Jack Denny's orchestra closed its program with That's Why" pret- ty little thing which was treated ! well by those great big musicians. WMCA, New York, was the station entertaining at the time.
 We heard Columbia The Gem Of The Ocean" as band selection from WNAC. Boston, and we might just as well say right here that WNAC 1 is going to have big time tonight, brate its fourth birthday. The pro- gram will begin at o'clock and will last until about midnight. There will be nearly 40 (count 'em) individual features, and there will be no blanks. A total of five dance orches- tras will be heard in the course of the evening, together with three concert orchestras, band, two or ganists, presentation by the WNAC Players and lots of other things.
 And so we say after the manner Of the well known Milt Gross, "Is { Dis a System 2" and then We wonder why we asked it. Early last evening we experienced considerable diff i 2ulty with the radio set. There ( seemed to be nothing the matter cX- 2 ,ept that it wouldn't work and we { finally landed upon the fact that Ic ,ne of the tubes or one of the le sockets or something is decidedly ii on the bum. We hit one of the t ubes, the weak one, a crack as one I often does in a fit of distemper or I age or the Massachusetts School of Pharmacy. and the fuse lamp blew put, denoting short circuit or ] what have you, my merry gentle nen. Our set is equipped with this ( title bulb, which prevents every hing from going looey when there l S a short circuit. ;
 After the fuse lamp was replaced hat weak tube, a rather mean look ng article anyway started to cut ,apers, subjecting us to long periods of silence right in the middle of pro- Whoops! You know how big hat stuff goes over with us, eh, what? We'll, We finally succeeded in , lnding out how to make only two- .hirds of the programs a total loss, Instead of seven-eights of them. ': Then we discovered that our A bat