Evening star., 1927-05-12
NEW RADIO PLANS
| WILL CHANGE LOGS
aProposed Revision of Wave
Lengths win Require
New Entries.

limbo. and Mr.. Listener-in will have II
cast about elsewhere on his dials fol
his fayorite stations. A complete re
Alignment of all existing stations, re
ouiring drastic power cuts, new wave
length changes and many DIVISIONS
of broadcast hours, is being planned
by the Federal Radio Commission.
Practically every station in the
country will be affected one way OF
another by the scheme contemplated
tby til commission in issuing o0-daS
licenses to replace the present tenn
porary operating permits and TO pre-
cede the issuance Of regular three-yeaf
licenses The shortterm licenses VII
be issued in batch. all becoming ef
fectiye the same date, so that all sta
tions will fit themselves into the com
missions new pattern" for orderly
radio traffic simultaneously.
The basis of the commissions plan
is geographical. Certain frequencies
will be allocated, certain stations
widely enough separated so that vary
ing power outputs on the same waves
in diverse localities will cause no
heterodyninE. In greatly congeSted
regions the limited number of waves
will require their use in many cases
by two or more stations. In centers
of population particularly power Will
be sharply curtailed.
In drawing UP the plan the commits
sion at the outset is taking up the
situation in those centers around
which the largest number OF stations
are clustered and where a great mum.
her of wave shifts and divisions OF
time will necessarily be required. In
the office Of Commissioner Bellows is
man which indicates the problem. 1t
has circles of 100 radii around the
cities where congestion is most acute
and where drastic changes will be
necessita ted The centers or these
circles and the number OF stations
within the 100mile radius OF each
were:
80: Baltimore, 80: Cleveland, %: Los
Angeles. 26; Detroit, %; Pittsburgh,
21: Cincinnati, 21 Omaha, 21; Daven'
mort 10: Seattle. IS: san Francisco,
Is: Rochester, 16 Minneapolis, lo'
Portland, Greg. 13; Denver, IL st.
Louis, 10, and Kansas City, 10.
An effort is being made to keep the
stations within these areas from ~
to so kilocycles apart and farthest
apart in the cities themselves.
Details of the plan will be MADE
known within 10 days. according 10
Mr.. Bellows. No stations will be elim.
mated under it, he said, but most Will
have to shift to entirely new wave
lengths in order to fit into the pian.
IT will be by coincidence merely tnat
any station will retain it's old fire.
ouencv under the plan. he went on'
saving he anticipated that no less
than 600 out of the 6S2 stations now
onerating will have to shift TO a
greater or less extent. If any stations
halk. they can come TO Washington
and obtain a public hearing before the
commission.
THE old hal1marks of a stations
-rublic service and necessity Will serve
to give them precedence, however
These are consistent good service,
hnriority, mechanical efficiency ana
mast record with the central authority.
The upper tier of stations IN these re-
.spects need have no fear OF being rele-
gated to poor positions on the fre-
.Guency scale, nor will many of them
awe TO share broadcast hours with
1es}er stations. They may simply
hank to make slight shifts to conform
to be plan. .
Cbmnnissioner Bellows was enthus1-
Aastk in giving this preliminary out
lin of the commissions intentions,
asdsrting the plan in its formative
go seems to simplify the broad
problem, while at the same time
liking no great hardships on the
adcasters. Best of all, he added, II
restore order in the ether. reduc-
Fto an absolute minimum all inter
ence.
Hans Barth. pianist and artist, who
SreouentIv presented a. program known
as the "IIalf Hour With Great Com
.posers," will be heard In a similar
offering through WRC at O'Clock
tonight. Mr.. Barth win present
half hour of piano solos by EoWaru
.MacDowelI. the great American COM
-noser. His opening selection. during
which he will be accompanied by an
orchestra directed by Cesare Sodero.
will be the ID Minor Concerto.
EOther NacDowell compositions on this
program are the Three Etudes,
Opus 46. the subtitles of which are
I"Wild Chase" improvisation" ana
s'Polonaise.'
WRC's program from to 10 o'clock
will be furnished by local artists.
THE Sylvan Trio and Florence Adams
an recitations, will be heard from
to $50, followed by a half hour con-
cert by Kurt Hetzel, pianist.
Tonights broadcasting will open
with dinner music from the Waldorf
Astoria in New York at o'clock. The
ievening features include the kit
Hour Of Music with Minnie Volk-
trnann. soprano, and Charles Miller.
ssaxophonist; South Sea Islanders.
from New York: Clicquot Club Eski-
mos and the LIE Paradis Band.
Dialing was productive of fair re-
suits last night. The wave lengths
were clear of static and extraneous
noises. and the out-of-town stations re-
sponded with careful tuning. The
fsignal strength, however, was not as
fgood as on the preceding two nights
when the ether lanes were in a noisy
Fuproar from static and electrical dis
iturbances.
Best results were obtained from the
South and Southwest. New Orleans
and Shreveport, where two of Louis
iiana's prominent broadcasters are To-
fcated. came through with better vol
ume and clarity than some of the
isuperpower stations in the North.
\ The Federal Radio Commission To-
May announced the temporary licens-
lg of three more broadcasting sta
ons and the shifting of the wave
ngths of six stations which already
pld temporary permits.
Station WRK, at Hamilton. Ohio.
Ssfated by y. w. D0rdn ana j. &.
e, was authorized TO operate on
kilocycles, or 270.1 meters, with
watts power
tCGU. at Brooklyn, N. Y, to be
rated by Charles G. Unger on / 800
BICYCLES. or 1905 meters, with $50
is, also was authorized.
[GDK, at Shreveport. La, William
anthony, was issued temporary
11it TO operate on 1890 kilocycles,
l5.7 meters. with 500 watts.
alton VIM, at Newark, y. j.. was
ted to $50 kilocycles. or 1924 me.
/. N, as was WDWM of the, same city,
they both are rated at 400 watts.
WRNY, New York, was transferred