New Britain herald., 1928-02-18
Through tie Static

There was lots of volume last night, but quality was not condi; ton to be experienced. It was eX- tremely poor and while stations through strong. there was not much of what could be called clarity. There wasn't a great deal of static during the early evening hours, but it increased later on as far as the higher wavelengths were concerned. Fading was present and interstation interference was as troublesome as usual.
 KFI, Los Angeles. came through louder than ever before at about 12:15 o'clock. The music was as loud as that heard from WOR. New ark, although the quality wasn't ex- ceptionally good. It sounded as If 1t were coming from great distance, which 1t was. It had sort of a far away sound: perhaps you Know what we mean. The announcements came through once in a while. but most of the time they were lost in a bar rage of code and static. A baritone solo, Rolling Down to Rio." was played. and there were dance or chestra numbers and concert band selections on the program.
 KFQB, Fort Worth. located on WEBS wave length, S33.1 meters, or 300 kilocycles, was fairly loud. pre- senting Hawaiian guitar numbers. The station wasn't extremely steady, wobbling quite bit.
 In the course of the program by the Cities Service concert orchestra and the Cavaliers male quartet, heard through WTIC, the "Flamin- go Love Call," an unpublished or iginal work by c. E. Macarthur, was played. The score was especial ly arranged for the group and it was presented in an impressive manner. Another interesting feature of the concert was "Voices of Love-" a melody written for four 'celios by Rosario Bourbon. conductor of the orchestra. The number had a great deal of soft, sweet harmony. The Cavaliers did themselves proud as usual, offering a variety of num- bers, including Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs Off the Moon."
 Miami is still trying to attract tourists, and WQAM of that city works overtime each evening, in an attempt to place before listeners the advantages of that town. The an- nouncer last night introduced 8 speaker who told about Miami's at- tractiveness and painted beautiful, highly colored pictures. The an- nouncer himself is not one to knock Miami. Nearly every evening he tells about the high temperature for the day.
 Late in the evening, WCAM, Cam den, offered a dance program which came through quite loud on the low CT wave lengths. The band was pret- ty fair, too, although the announcer was kept in the dark as to the sue cession of numbers.
 Jack Denny's Mount Royal or chestra presented fascinating dance tunes from CFCF. Montreal. which was extremely loud. Selections from Funny Face" New Iork's latest musical show, were rendered. If our memory serves us right the music from that show is on the taboo list of the American Society of Com posers, Authors and Publishers and the numbers can't be played without special permission. Of course. the ! rights of the organization may not extend to Canada; we don't know but if they do and the numbers were heard by a representative of the so- ciety the station is liable to sweet fine. But, of course. that doesn't af- feet us to any great extent. The mu- sic was worth listening too, anyway The Show Boat feature clicked from WLS, Chicago, as do nearly all the features put on by that station The only thing we don't like is the hockey series. The games are all right. but the announcer is terrible He Is too blamed partial to his ow17 team and to his own ego.
 Others heard were WHO, Des
 Moines: WFLA. Clearwater, Fla; WCFL. WGN, WBBM, WHIT. WOk Chicago: WLW, WSAI, Cincinnati
 wee. Minneapolis; WTAM, Cleve. land: WGY, Schenectady; WWJ, De.