New Britain herald., 1927-01-24
Through tie Static

Saturday and Sunday evenings. In both cases the early evening was not such-a-much. On Saturday night there were too many stations on the air, for one thing, and it was tm- | possible to pick up wave without hearing an accompanying carrier whistle grinding away, either loud or faint. Whether loud or faint, it | was there. Volume was not so heavy early, but 1t improved as the eve ming aged. A little static came in l late. Western stations were partic- ularly easy pickin'. Last night there was lot of noise. such as buzing | and code. Volume wasn't so very strong. Conditions improved as on ming found us occupied with all the westerners we could handIe-almost.
 Saturday night. WSM, Nashville. came through particularly loud early in the evening, surprising feature. Beasley Smith and his orchestra played "St. Louis Blues'' so loud they nearly wrecked our loud speak CT. The blamed thing started to vi- brate and we thought we should have to shut off the set, but finally we managed to turn down the rheo- stat sufficiently to bring the vibra- tion to stop. Such relief. Finally, several other stations came on the air and WSM was lost in mess of roars, rattles, squeals. howls and shrieks. The Big Blooper came through with a roar. He has an air plane hum attached to him now and he sails through the ether sweeping everything before him. Some day somebody's going to put bullet in the gas tank of that Boche hound of the air, and then there are going to be pretty fireworks. Mamma, I cut off Rover's front leg; doesn't he walk funny?
 For some unknown reason, every body in town brought in WIP, Phil adelphia, with excellent volume Sat urday night. That is, everyone we've been able to see. The returns are not all in from the fifth ward. since Steve Koblombzxo and Mike Wash bocz could not be reached by tele- phone this morning. The Eastern States Penitentiary was putting on it's periodical program and the air was filled with numbers. For in- stance No. 47S and No. 7367 sang solos, the former offering Red Hot Henry Brown" and the latter When We Met Yesterday" Of course, the names of the performers are not an- nounced, just their numbers. We might say, however, that some real talent is hidden behind the bars of that prison and the boys put over a slick collection Of musical endea- vors. The band played on, and a string group offered Who" in sweet tempo, banjos predominating. Two of the fellows then presented, as vocal duet, "Tie Me To Your Apron Strings Again." Well received. These programs are awaited with interest by WIP fans. and they are always worth listening to. The station came through well, without any interfer- cnce to speak of.
 XIV, Chicago, came through loud, but de code spoil everything.
 
 WCCO, Minneapolis, was loud, and we heard a University quartet in a rendition of "The Winter Song" Oth- CT numbers were sung. but we missed the titles, due to local disturbance.
 The announcer at WLS showed himself to be too much in favor of the home team during the broadcast ing of the Chicago Boston hockey match. It was an extremely rough game, nothing like the well manner ed and exciting contests they stage over at the Boston Arena.
 WPCH Is getting very high-hat, but we detected one of the announc- CTS in the act Of saying broadcast ed' on Saturday night. If we err, we stand corrected.