New Britain herald., 1928-02-17
WEAK. Harrisburg.

| loud. offered some perfectly terrible phonosra phic reproduction shortl. after 6:3O o'clock. The wave was st heavy that it shut out everything within i've points of it. The music certainly sounded tough: there's nc doubt about it. Then. right neX' door, shortly afterward, WING Asheville. North Carolina. came or with photographic selections whicl sounded slightly better. That station was loud. also. We hope that wher the Federal Radio Commission starts to clear the airways. it will starr with such stations, stations that broadcast photograph selections during regular transmitting hours preventing other stations with bona fide programs from getting shot al the air. Such stations clutter up the ether with trash. Stations should eihcr broadcast real programs after o'clock or they should shut down It's all blamed foolishness. this photograph record stuff.
 i WRVA, Richmond, started ul about 6:45 o'clock, booming in loud and clear. with not bit of inter- i ference and with steady wave Some sort of boys club was on the air and there were musical selections mixed in between short talks. The station didn't have things all it's own way for very long. however, since il is located in congested district and other transmitters started to pick up their own waves.
 PWN, Havana. came through eN- tremely loud at about : o'clock, broadcasting typical Spanish tunes as part of dinner concert program. Either the station has new an- nouncer or the old one has learned how to speak better English, since the fellow we heard had no accent at all. That's taken some of the kick 1 out of hearing the station. tMore ln the next paragraphD
 
 Speaking of Havana and PWA,. The station signed off some time after o'clock and we listened to WTAM, Cleveland, for a while. which station came through with plenty of volume. for change. Later on in the evening we were again listening to WTAM. when i PWN came on with a rush and a roar, brushing the Cleveland broad cast aside and making us listen to its own program. An orchestra played Under the Moon" as dance selection. PWX absolutely drowned out WTAM, so great was the volume. Announcements were extremely clear.
 We dashed over to WLW. Cin- cinnati. just in time to hear the closing number on the Orpheus club program, the National Anthem sung by the club and audience. The sta ton was loud and very clear.
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 Mir. Schla gcnhauer was on the air from WSAI. Cincinnati, late in the evening. He was talking he said. in behalf of the greatest of indoor sports, donking Cor dunking). He was speaking as president. vice pres ident, secretary. treasurer and gen. eral manager of the Schlagenhauer Donking club. You know what donk- ing is of course. When people soak doughnuts or bread in coffee before eating them, that is called donklng. It seems the club has a large num- <, Der of members and the president, etc, etc.. spoke of many letters re ceived. His dialect was excellent, 1t being German, and he showed a knowledge of it that was Astounding. Songs and stories were interspersed and Mir. Schlagenhauer made several wise cracks that were good for i laughs.
 Late in the evening several of the stations had the jim jams. They came in strong and then plotted out suddenly, repeating the action time after time. After a while they got strengthened out and stopped the foolishness.
 l, WBBM, Chicago. played number dedicated to someone at kWkH' Shreveport, Louisiana, which station was coming in like d house-atlre' right next door to the Chlcago broadcaster. All we had to do was to turn the dials fraction of an inch in order to hear shreveport. Roth stations were extremely loud. l KVOO, Bristow. Oklahoma. offer ed the Oklahoma Serenaders. a dance orchestra of average ability, which presents a variety of old time foxtrots, notable among them being "St. Louis Blues" The saNophone did most of the work.
 KNOX, St. Louis, and kOIL, Council Bluffs. were extremely loud. both of them presenting dance mu-