New Britain herald., 1927-11-07
Through tie Static

Once again radio has showed its Colors in time of emergency, said emergency being almost uncomfor- tably near home. The New England flood which has laid waste property through Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut and which has taken toll of lives already. is the emergency. Radio stations in this section of the country cut into pro- grams through Saturday afternoon and Sunday, in order to relay mes sages 10 and from the stricken areas. Many of the messages were to the effect that families in the flooded territory were safe, al though most of them expressed con Cern or friends or relatives in parts of New England for those in cities and towns known to have been wis tied by the flood.
 WBZ, Springfield, was prominent in the sending of messages. Several times last evening and yesterday afternoon the programs were inter rupted so that telegrams might be relayed to the stricken areas which were out of communication with the i outside except by radio. Last night l the telegrams and messages reached a huge number and both the Kim | ball and the Statler studios were | flooded with telegrams and tele- phone calls. WTIC, Hartford, was on the job, going on the air every 15 minutes yesterday, from 1 o'clock ! in the afternoon until the close of the evening program. Hartford was | hit by the flood and the station ! broadcast warnings and messages. ! WEEI, Boston, was on the air several times yesterday afternoon with news | of the flood. All three stations gave i freely of their power. especially WTIC and WBZ, in order to aid the flood sufferers and their friend on 1 the outside. It strikes us that radio has added another feather to its worthy cap.
 We tried to get WATT, a portable ] Sl SlclllOIl SNlil ouL u ioiii DOoNoAi' " iii~ih was broadcasting on a wavelength of POI meters, but, while we could get down to that wave length, we met with no success. Probably the station wasn't on the air when we tried to get it. The transmitting ap- paratus was mounted on an auto mobile which was making it's way
 Ip,s ! broadcast messages and news from parts of Vermont which were cut off from communication with the outside world.
 We understand that WBZ inter rupted the play-by play description of the football game on Saturday afternoon In order to give news of the flood and to present messages.
 Many New Britain fans received an unexpected thrill late Saturday afternoon when they picked up 5-XW, Southport England, broad casting a program of photograph selections. We received several tele phone calls regarding the matter and it almost broke our heart to be forced 10 say that the English station was being picked up and re- broadcast by WGY, Schenectady. The music came through fairly well at times. but the static on the 27 meter waveband being used by
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 were hearing on the 3S0 meter track, did not work out so well. The station faded considerably and the broadcast was not a success taken as a whole. However, it was great improvement over previous at tempts to rebroadcast European music, and we are hopeful that WGY will be able to click in the near future and give us something along the lines of what we are re- ceiving at home. The experiments are decidedly interesting.
 Saturday night would have been & great one if the static had not been so persistent There was plenty of volume, almost too much. What good is volume when static keeps right up with it? Chicago, Nashville. Atlanta and other cities were heard. There vas excellent volume last night. too and the static did not seem to be quite as heavy, although there was enough of it. We got as far as Des Moines before we quit.
 The Utica Jubilee Singers provid- cd an interesting program of old Southern melodies from WIZ and a hookup which included kDKA. last evening. We heard the offering from KDKA. Nobody Knows De