Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
RADIO COMMISSION
t BARS WIDER BAND
\ s.
Board Also Decides to Issue
Il New Permits for All
Stations.

Two general orders just issued by
4he Federal Radio Commission make
9 certain there will be no effort at TINS
time 10 widen the broadcasting fire.
ouercv band and insure radio listeners
the continuance of program reception
during radios period of reconstrEc-
ton
- In the first order the commission
states definitely that it will not at TINS
time allocate frequencies other thah
those in the present band between 530
and 1,500 kilocycles, or $40 TO 2eO me
fers Under the second. temporary
permits to operate are granted to all
stations previously licensed which ap-
uly for new licenses by April "a, when
their 60-day period of grace expires.
The pleas of radio engineer anna.
teurs, as well as the opposition or
broadcasters and radio set manufac-
turers, convinced the commission
against widening the broadcast band.
Not only would such a course at TINS
time inconvenience owners of sets lot
cahbrated to receive the higher ire
ouencies. but the opening of new chan
neIs below 200 meters would Interfere
with experiments now being made on
those frequencies with televlsion, OF
the transmission of pictures by Wirt.
less and would deprive amateurs OF
their code communication channels,
practically all of which are between
$50 and 200 meters.
The commission believes, says the
official order against widening the
band to make room for more stations,
that 1.-THE band between 1900 and 1000
kilocycles eco to $50 meters) should,
no far as may be practicable, be heid
omen for experimental work in broad
Il oil ~
ice. TO the end that with the further
DEVELOPMENT of the art this band may
be eventually made available for
broadeasting, whether for the ear or
the eye, if it should prove particularly
well adapted to such type of service
to the public.
The second general order grants
present broadcasters temporary per-
mits to operate, without subjecting
them to penalties provided in the radio
act for operating without a license
after april "a. This will enable them
10 carry on while the commission takes
up their cases, probably one by one,
to determine whether they shall be is.
sued the regulation three-year licenses
and, If so, under what conditions they
may broadcast.
The commission makes it plain that
these temporary permits, until with
drawn, will have the force and effect
of a license insofar as penalties under
the radio act of 1927 are concerned.
After April "A broadcasting without
the authority of such Il temporary
permit viii be deemed av collation. of
the law.
The Cliquot Club Eskimos announce
n unique program for tonight, when
they will stage An Amateur Night.
The whole hour, starting at o'clock,
will be devoted to contest between
the different instruments, and with
due ceremony the winner viii be
awarded a suitable prize at the close
of the program. Among the instru-
ments in the contest will be a har-
monica, fife, potato whistle, saXophone,
violin and accordion.
The Cliquot Club Eskimos viii vie
with the La Sale Symphony Orchestra
for the broadcasting honors.
Another outstanding feature OF
WRC's program tonight will be the
second of the series of concerts by the
La Sale symphony Orchestra, which
viii play from to s. o'clock,
WRC win open its program at 6
o'clock with the Kilt Hour of Music,
which will present a piano recital by
Anne Sugar. reading by Gwendolyn
ANoASSAAz S@A1o q va -sAS~
Music" by DIR. w. Otto Miessner A
talk by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willie
brandt, Assistant Attorney General,
will follow. The Emerson Hour of Mu-
sic and a dance program by the lie
Paradis Band are other WRC attrac-
tions.
The Capitol Forest Band will make
its debut to the radio audience to-
night through station WMAL. The
concert win be under the auspices Of
the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Capitol
Forest, No. 104. Vocal and instru-
mental selections will intersperse the
band numbers.
Dorsch's Doughboys, Phil Hayden
and Les Colvin, popular radio enter
tanners; Morgan Kiley, an old-time
fiddler, and Royal NJ. Tinker. baritone.
also will take part in WMAL's pro-
gram.
AIidwinter reception conditions pre-
vailed on the wave lengths last night.
signals from every section Of the
United States could be tuned with
ease and when once located, fairly
roared into the loud speakers.
Static tried vainly to make its
presence felt, but the signal strength
was TOO great to give it foothold.
There was some fading and much
heterodyne whistling, but reception
conditions in general were excellent.