Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-29
SATURDAY HOOK-UP
INCLUDES CANADA
Long and Short Waves to Be
Used to Broadcast First
Victor Program of Year.

The first Victor presentation of the
new year to be broadcast Saturday
night through the blue" and red"
networks of the National Broadcast
ing Co.. assumes an international as
peCt with the double announcement
today that CHYC, Montreal, and
CHIC. Toronto. Canada. will be linked
into the chain for the occasion and
that the entire program will be
radiated by both the long and short
wave transmitters of WGY. Science
tady, and KDKA. Pittsburgh.
The addition of the Montreal and
Toronto stations will bring the four
star program to the Canadian broad
cast listeners. and if conditions are at
all favorable, the ShOrt-waVe trans
missions should be heard in South
America, South Africa and England
Batteries are fighting for their lives
against the onrush Of eliminators
Even the storage battery charger is
on the defensive against the inroads
of the trickle charger idea. Radio
owners, however, should use their best
glasses when viewing the fight. be
cause truths cannot always be re
duced to a single, infallible rule.
There are points in favor of each OF
the contestants and it is impossible
to know what these are.
A good storage battery with
high ampere- hour rating and good
charger make an efficient and salts
factory source of "A" power pro-
vided the fan keeps it up to the re-
Quired specific gravity. \ high
ampere hour battery, however, will
deliver efficiently for a long period
even if neglected. The trickle
charger idea does away with the
business of forgetting to charge the
battery, but since one is encouraged
10 use it with q w-ampere-
battery there is more constant re-
charging. This might prove to be
q source of annoyance should the
house lighting current be off for any
considerable period during the eve
ming.
Dry batteries are certain to hold
their lead for portable sets, although
It is quite possible that in the near
future power. supplies working from
house lighting sockets will be regu-
lar pieces of furniture in several
places throughout the house. and in
hotels. The portable set under this
regime will be one without any
built-in power supply
One of the big advantages of dry
battery power supply for 3D. cur
rent is the opportunity to apply
wide variety of voltages TO the plate
circuits. The ''B" eliminator pro-
vides "new battery" performance
continuously. but it does not always
allow for the fieXibility in voltage
which the radio fan. particularly the
experimenter, sometimes prefers.
1t is largely a question of require
ments. Keep this in mind when CON-
sidering the pros and cons of radio
set power.
wRC will provide the usual We'd
nesday features tonight-the Army
Band, the Ipana Troubadours, the
Smith Brothers moments musical"
and an opera by the WEAF Light
Opera Company. The saxophonists
will play some of the melodies of
Brahms. The light opera will be
1.-The Sorcerer," one of the Gilbert and
Sullivan hits.
Another complaint against the I'M
usual interference reported by w. W.
Massey came today from e. Ray
Ynond Acton, 1921 NJ street, who sug-
gested that it sounded to him like
the "backwash" of some high-powered
code transfnitter. Mr.. Acton wrote:
referring to w. w. Massey's let
Ter in the radio column OF Tuesdays
Star regarding the loud cracking
noises and a tapping sound, causing
interference in reception, | have also
experienced this nuisance nightly for
the past several months and have
been hoping somebody would start
something about locating the cause
and getting rid of it.
This cracking will come in any
place on the dials and at times forms
81 definite group of successive taps
like the backwash of some highs
powered Government code transmit
ter, to which cause / have laid 1t in
my own mind"
The interference seems to be local
iZed in the area bounded by New York
avenue and M street and Seventeenth
and Nineteenth streets, as no reports
have come from fans in other sec
tions of the city. An investigation
which the radio inspectors of the De-
partment of Commerce will be re-
quested to make probably will reveal
te