New Britain herald., 1926-07-16
Through he Static

| With plenty of entertainment on the air 1t didn't make so much diff. ference last night whether or not Ievery station came through with lexact clarity. There was some static although this was not disturbing be-
 cause of its volume. There was con-
 siderable noise, unidentified, to be
 sure, but noise nevertheless. Suffi-
 cient volume to counteract the dis
 turbances predominated at most of
 the stations, but some of them were
 lost in the quagmire, anyway. There
 was lots of fading, too.
 We'll, the revolution is on. Last night we found WMSG, New York, doing business on a wavelength which we would estimate roughly as 303 meters. WRNY, New York. was doing its best to horn in between
 WHN and WGY. WNJ, Newark, was working off it's power on wave length of 351 meters, more or less. All three of these stations come from points below the 270 meter wavelength band and the shift can- not be controlled or stopped, due to the fact that it has been ascertained that the department of commerce has no jurisdiction over the stations. Good bye Joe! There's going to be lots of fun for the listeners-in this winter. Said listeners-in, as usual. will be the goats when all of those puny stations located below 270 met CTS get the idea that they belong in the upper strata. They are all right where they are now because they aren't doing any particular damage, but when they get up among the big timers it's going to be terrible Other stations remained at their us ual positions, although we thought at one time that WTIC was going to dash elsewhere, when it's wave sud 'denly shifted several points off its usual position. It snapped back right away. however, so no harm was done except to our nervous sys- tenn.
 The rain stopped lots of things last evening. It prevented the Der lenbach-Delaney fight, which was to have been broadcast by two New York stations, WFBH and WMCA, and it also stopped the outdoor con- cert by the United States Marine band, which was broadcast by WIZ WRC and WGY. The concert was held indoors, but the fight was called off until tonight, when the two sta tions will handle it. as scheduled, we suppose. We haven't heard any thing to the contrary.
 The concert by the Liberty Drum corps from WBZ, Springfield, would have been much more effective, if il had been about half as long. Un- relieved fife and drum music be- comes tiresome after about 30 num- bers have been played besides, the beating of the drums gave the flies a rather raspy sound, which was not pleasant to listen to for any length of time. We imagined ourself at parade and tuned the station in and out, bringing the corps near and then sending it away again. Even that childish form of amusement palled after awhile and we sought other entertainment.
 We ran into a great mess between 300 and BIO meters. About S,002 stations are cramped into that space, including WPG, WJAR, WGN, WLIB. KDKA. and now, WMSG, New York, with it's loud mouthed Why couldn't they have picked some other place to make trouble They should have moved up to 650 meters and then nobody would have been able to hear them.
 WTIC Hartford. in the course of the program by the Hotel Bond or chestra went off the air several times. Why. We don't know. The of music was interrupted on