New Britain herald., 1926-04-24

Audclnce VIII be able To FOLLOW In order given in tho dining room, through the various departments and chefs until, beautifully garnish- cd, il is served 10 the guests,
 The opera, "Martha," will be pre- sented Monday evening at 10 o'clock through WEAF and q chain Of sta tions including WTIC, Hartford. Also on Monday evenings program from the Travellers station will be the presentation Of excerpts from Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience" which will be presented by the students of the Central High school, Springfield, Mass at 9 o'clock,
 Dr. Bernard C, Clausen, broad i casting his evening church service | through WGY recently, surprised his radio listeners by breaking into song right in the midst of his ser mon He sang two lines Of negro spiritual, and he sang them well, and then h" took those two lines ps a sermon text. After covering those two lines he sang two more Of an other spiritual and then two more. That combination Of song and Ser mon, was the introduction of Dr. Clausen 10 the audience of WGT.
 Did you ever stop to think when you hear station broadcasting just how much difficulty there is, how much compexity there is, in send ing any program from a remote point 10 the control room of the station? WRNY. New York, tells about it.
 Two men, an operator and an an- nouncer, start from the station an hour before the program is to be broadcast carrying with them two black fibre suot cases in which are contained all the essential apparatus necessary to broadcast. In the suit cases are micrOphones, batteries, ex- tensions, phones, spare tubes, and last but not least is the amplitier which multiplies the volume of the program thousands Of times in or . der that 1t may overcome the re- slstance Of the telephone lines.
 With this apparatus they pro- ceed to the point of broadCasting, and then comes the hardest part of the job. This is the setting up of the apparatus in the right place for the hoe ry,l ,Ngy ytYNrr 3lar mi crophones so that they will pick up the voices or instruments of the artists in the best possible manner.
 In some cases, take for instance banquet. there is a crowd of hec- tic diners, all out for a good time, and the little matter of broadcast ing doesn't worry them in the least. They may be very much in the way, but it is the job of the remote con- trol operator to arrange the micro phones without disturbing any ot them.
 This having been done, and the amplifer having been set up and tested, the remote control operator calls up the station and informs the operator there that he is ready for 6 complete test through the station amplfier. There are two telephone lines to every point where remote broadcasting is 10 be done, and ii one of the lines should fail, the oth- er can be used to broadcast over Usually one line is used to send ths program to the station, and the oth CT is used as a regular talking lln' with a telephone at each end
 All tests having been carried ou successfully the program is picke( up at the remote point, amplified sent over the telephone lines, am plifed once more in the contro room of the station. and again il the speech ampli1er tube of th' main transmitting set.
 As in any type of broadcast work the first word that one should thinl of Is amplitied. Before the voice 0 the artist finally enters the oscillato tubes of the transmitter, it is am plined many hundred thousand times.