Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-26
"HAM" OPERATORS
GIVEN LICENSES
Four Amaturs Pass Examina.
ton by Radio Division of
Commerce Department.
BY MARTIN CODEL.

BY MARTIN CODEL.
First of the hams" of the United
States to qualify as an amateur ex-
ira first-class radio operator is L. g
Window of Gallipolis, Ohio, the Radio
Division of the Department Of Com
merce has announced.
This class of license has been re-
established after lapse Of several
years, largely through the efforts OF
the American Radio Relay League, to
heighten the standards among the 49,
600 amateurs of the country.
Young Window, who Is 81 and oper-
ateS his station "for the fun Of 1t" and
without commercial gain, has qualified
as extra first class" by taking spe-
cial examination before the Federal
supervisor of radio for the eighth radio
district. Just after his license was is
sued three other youths in the New
York metropolitan area passed the test.
One of them, Frank Melville of 4011
203d street. Bayside, N. Y, is lad of
II. The other two are John Albert
Stable, 624 East Twenty-third street,
Brooklyn, and Robert T. Handren. $50
Twenty-eighth street, Woodcliffe, N. j.
The Ohio ham" and the three in
the second district are the only ones
whose qualifications have so far been
reported to Washington. There may
be several more as yet unreported, &C
cording to the Radio Division.
Two Years Experience.
To be eligible for the examination
the applicant must have had at least
two years experience as a licensed
radio operator, and must never have
been penalized for violating the radio
laws.
The code speed requirement is 20
wards per minute-continenta Morse,
five characters to the word-receiving
and transmitting, as compared to 10
for the ordinary license. The passing
grade in the special written test must
be IS per cent, whereas 1t Is 70 in the
ordinary examination.
Noting some of the work of the anna
teurs throughout the country is par
ticularly apt at this moment, when the
large commercial interests are Scram-
high-frequency avenues of the ether
pioneered by the hams"
Proposed domestic uses of the short
waves are to be described before the
Federal Radio Commission Tuesday,
September 25, by such applicants as
the Radio Corporation of America,
Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co., Aneri-
can publishers committee, Universal
Wireless Communication Co., power
companies and oil exploration interests.
The amateurs after January !, 1929,
must forsake many of the channels they
are now using and go to the relatively
restricted bands of wave lengths as
signed to them under the International
Radio-Telegraph Convention of 1927.
Meanwhile they have been proving their
n,ettle again in an emergency.
Depend on Amateurs.
During the West Indian hurricane of
last week naval radio services depended
largely on amateurs for setting up COM
munications with the stricken areas and
with points from which aid was to be
rushed.
Naval communications at Washing
ION has especially commended the work
Of amateur $50 of the School of En-
-neering of Milwaukee, Wise; 2-AFO,
Charles Brown, Richmond Hill, N. Y:
LBS, Lawrence e. FELTON,, Colonia, N.
j.; 2-APD, Nathan PonsrantZ, Brock.
IN, NJ r., AMI the station operated by
:. G. SpeneellY Id the Virgin Islands. I
The ranks of the "han1s" supplied a
'arge stork of expert radiomen needed
~ both branches of the military dur
ng the Word War. In peace time the
Tavy uses about 10 amateur stations in
iiIerent parts Of the country as mas
Ter control and alternate control sta
items for its naval communication re-
serve. Ships also can call upon coastal
amateurs for special services, as in the
case of the West Indies-Florida hurri-
cane"
The Army, usually pressed into serv-
ice in the cases of emergencies like the
Mississippi and Vermont floods, utilities
the amateurs extensively. The record
of the hams" during these emergencies
is well known.
The Army since 1925 has maintained
a network of stations known as ARMY
amateur radio stations and including
some 1900 of the fastest and most re-
liable operators in all parts Of the coun-
try. They are given special certificates
from the War Department when they
qualify. They are subject to mobiliza-
ton and other calls from Washington.
Secretary of War Davis has just asked
the Radio Commission to allot an addi-
iional band of freQuencies for their use
because Of their Importance to the
;1hcme Of national defense.
Jenkins Uses "Hams."
c. Francis jenkins, pioneer inventor
is now working on the problem of tele-
vision, or radio-vision, is using amateurs
in his experimental broadcasts from
his station, 3-XK, Washington, D. c.,
sending out signals that can be trans
lated into radio movies" in silhouette
when received on apparatus specially
built to his specifications.
jenkins has nearly 4 score of ANA
teurs, young and old, already co-operat-
ing with him.
The inventor calls them fellow "pio-
neers" in the much-discussed radio
vision art. They are situated in diff
ferent parts of the country, and report
their results to jenkins at Washington
regularly after each nights broadcasts.
Mr.. Jenkins made public list of his
amateur collaborators as follows:
F. A. Hill, 500 South Dearborn street,
Chicago; William N. Parker, 1929 North
Hayne avenue, Chicago; P. F. Schier-
land, 1897 Vine street, Cincinnati r.
II. Kolks, 1861 Marshall avenue, Gin
cinnati; P. w. Heasley, Mill and High
streets, Akron: Harry Yingst, 1923
North Third street. Harrisburg, Pa;
arthur Aykroyd, 1865 West Union
boulevard, Bethlehem, Pa; G.. E. Sterl-
ing. Customshouse, Baltimore; Howard
Adams, jr., ia Overhill road, Balti-
more; r. M. Cuten. FELTON,, Del; Ray
mond Morgan, University of Pennsyl-
vania, Philadelphia; James Millen, 81
Sherman street, Maiden, Mass; P. S.
Hendricks, Lynwood, Wiamo, Mass. !;
Paul Zerrahnk, Peyson road. Belmont,
Mass: Boyd Phelps, 8505 167th street,
Jamaica, Long Island, and Clifford
Frazer, rs Dekalb avenue, Bridgeport,
Conn.
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