New Britain herald., 1926-12-15
Through he Static

A fair night, nothing to rave about, but adequate for the average needs. There was some static which insisted upon breaking up into in finitesimal particles. This mess showered down upon us like so much soot Stations came through with ex- traordinary volume and the night would have been perfect from that standpoint. if there hadn't been so much fading. Although there were many stations on the air and many of them were within two or three meters of each other, we were able to separate them much more easily than has been the case dur ing the past few weeks.
 With the aid Of a new loud speak CT and a rapidly dying "A" battery, we tore around the dials. taking everything with us. Once, right in the middle Of the evening, we had to call time out while we put the charger on. this taking an hour, be- tween S:45 and 9:45 o'clock. But we attacked our work with a re- newed vigor after the battery had been charged to some extent, and we had the pleasure of listening to all the local stations.
 To tell the truth, we didn't meet with such hot luck early in the ere- ming. That part of the night brought a mixup of stations and many noises, ! but things finally cleared up.
 
 We have only to mention George ! Gershwin and you can bet on what 1 feature we enjoyed most last night. This famous composer was guest artist at WEAF. New York, along with the Revelers and an orchestra. | The high spot was the rendition or Rhapsody in Blue" with the com ! poser. Gershwin, at the piano, assist ed by an orchestra which included l Ross German on the clarinet. Ross is i known to be one of the cleVerest manipulators of the saxophone and clarinet, extant. Well, the "hhap- sody" fulfilled our expectations and went way beyond. We have heard l Paul Whiteman and his band play it, but no better than the organiza- tion did last evening, and, too last nights rendition included the entire number. while Whiteman cut his in- depreciation of the selection. We couldn't get anywhere near WEAF, New York, due to the fact that a loud carrier wave whistle from WCFL, Chicago, was hooting around so we tried WTAM. Cleveland. That station was all right for a few min utes but a howl developed there. Sc we went to WCCO, Minneapolis which was coming through loud al the time. Finally this station devel. oped a severe case of fading and we went over to WSAI, Cincinnati where we remained. NSAI main. tained a steady tremendous Solume The Revelers. or at least, we took them to be the Revelors, sang 1T their customary style, Sweet ant Low Down"
 VEAL, Baltimore, was verl smooth. with the Municipal ban( pursuing it's even way in Wedding Of The Winds" that familiar com position Of Hall. Strange to say tht Baltimore station was not accompan.
 
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 CNRA, Moncton, pulled out from among a group Of raVing maniacs including VICES, WGR and WSAl held its own with the dance orches' tra playing Tell Me Tonight" We had no difficulty keeping the sta tion separated from the others, oncc we were in tune with it. Consider able volume.
 WHO'D, Miami Beach. surprised u , by appearing on wavelength 0 about 3S5 meters. We had missed th station from the low waves ant couldn't imagine what had becom of it. WHO'D has taken the wave length formerly used by WMBF, o which no one seems to know wha . has become The station didn't q so well at about 10 o'clock and " noticed considerable interference from WGY, WLWL and WTAM, DOT tions of the programs of each an ; every one of these other station drifting in on WIOD's wave now am