Evening star., 1927-04-12
No WAVE LENGTH
CHANGES ORDERED.
Board Is Renewing Permits
! on Same FrequenCieS
~4.-
Now in Use.


being used were ordered by the Fed
erel Radio Commission among the
ntrst 81 radio broadcasting stations is-
sued permits to continue to operate
after April "a free from penalty for
operating without licenses under the
radio act of 1927. With permits being
granted daily as fast as the commits
sion can handle them. numerous
changes among the other stations will
probably be required before the full
list of 732 expected applications is ex-
hausted on or before April "a.
The commissions avowed policy Is
to grant all existing and operating
stations temporary permits pending
final action on their applications for
the three-year licenses. Under the
temporary permits, however, they
must agree to shift TO even frequency
IdIocycles il necessary and to clear
the six exclusive Canadian wave
lengths. For example, q station
operating on 1928 frequency kilo-
cycles must shift to the even decimal
place, in this case either 920 or $40
frequency kilocycles, in accordance
with the commissions plan to keep
stations at ledSt ~ hlIoCSCieS
on the even frequencies
About 125 stations throughout the
United States are affected by this re
Guirement and will have to shift.
There are some 40 others operating
on or within-10 kilocycles of the eX-
elusive Canadian waves which like
wise will have to shift, probably in
most cases to the 200 to 220 meter
band.
The q stations first to obtain per
ntits were all operating on even fre.
quencies, and therefore required no
shifting. Among them, however, two
changes in power were authorized.
Station WMAL, Washington. which
recently went up from 100 to $50 watts
power on the 93.9-meter wave length,
was permitted to continue using $50
watts. Station WHAZ, operated on
3T9.5 meters by Rensselaer, Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, N Y, had to reduce
from 1000 to 500 watts.
In connection with the frequency
shifts, it is pertinent to note that the
commission is inclined, along with
radio scientists and many manufac-
turerS or sets, to urge the public to
become "kilocycle- minded" instead of
''neter-minded." For purposes of
scientific exactness, the commission
has decided to refer kilocycles rather
than meters when designating wave
channels. The kilocycle of frequency
represents the alternating or vibrat
ling rate of the wave while t..e meter
represents the length of the wave.
Without question, the outstanding
event on the wave lengths today, as
far as Washington is concerned, will
be the radio INSTALLATION of the in
itial clash OF the base ball sea son be
tween the Nationals and the Red SoX
at the Griffith Stadium. Every detail
|of the game will be described by
Thornton Fisher, noted sports editor,
who, sitting before microphone in
the broadcasting studio of The Star,
will interpret in his own inimitable
way a telegraphic account which will
come direct from the ball park over
"a special leased wire.
The scenes preliminary to the con-
test also will be described by Mr.. |
lat o'clock. The game is scheduled |
ito start half an hour later.
"Jasbo Brown" the poem written
by De Bose Haywood around the |
legendary Mississippi steamboat ne
gro. who is credited with being the |
original singer of jazz, will feature |
/
ATTRACTION tonight. A special musical |
Bcore, with spiritual and jazz varia- |
Eions, has been prepared TO suit the |
mood and text of the poem. The |
Eveready program also will include |
D series of popular concert numbers, |
with solos by Virginia Rea and Bar |
bara Maurel.
Other features on tonight's pro-
gram include a recital by Marie
0uchon Deal, soprano; another of the |
series of Great Moments in His |
E0rT," which will concern Thomas |
Jefferson; the twenty-sixth of the |
beries of auction bridge games and |
eoncert by the National Radio Cav
hlcade.
WMAL has scheduled a varied pro- |
cram tonight which will keep it on the |
ir continuously from GAS to 11:3O |
clock. The chief features are the !
nco Hour Of Music and the Radio |
Movie Club. The Costlow Fretted Or
hestra, the Army Band Symphonet |
md Dick Liebert and his orchestra |
lsO will provide a diversified musical |
Entertainment.
Radio reception last night was in
klined to be "spotty.'' Some OF the |
,lder and well known stations usually |
beard regularly in this section were |
ither difficult to tune or could not be
ound at all, while broadcasters which |
arely get their signals into Washing |
on were picked up.
The stations that were tunable had |
Eood signal strength and came through
With clarity. There was some static
nd fading to contend with, however,
put neither interfered seriously with
reception.
Three OF the strangers heard last
light were WDBE, Atlanta: WDOD, |
chattanooga, and WGBF, Evansville,
nd.