New Britain herald., 1928-02-22
Hsssk he Static

FAding-Not much.
 Volume-Much.
 Interference-In abundance.
 Code-Present.
 DX-Moderate.
 Date-YeA we have one.
 
 A most uncanny thing happened last night at about 7:15 o'clock. We were scouting around the dials look ing for trouble. with no particular place to go, and we meandered cas- ually up to the high wavelengths, stopping at WEEI, Boston. for a minute. noted that there was quite | mixup around 516 meters, and ended up listening to the Voters Service offering from WTIC. Hart ford. We were slightly ofr the wave, but finally. in order to see just how loud we could bring in the station, We secured an exact tuning and found that the set was exactly on the wave. There was a speaker on the air. but the amazing feature was the fact that the voice of a female singer could be heard. very loud. right there on the same wave length. Unless the tuning was exact it was impossible to hear her. since We fig ured that 1t might have been WMAk spreading all over the dials. We tried and lost the voice of the singer. but picked up WMAk which was having all 1t could do to be heard at that time.
 We didn't hear the voice again and decided that it was some freak of our imagination and that some other station might have slipped its wave or something else. We forgot about it until we arrived at the of flee this morning. And then one of the boys out in the composing room rushed over to us, eyes asparkle and full of excitement. He told us the same story. but said he heard the voice for quite a while and that 1t came through extremely loud. How ever, he stated, there was no sound of a heterodyne and it seemed al- most impossible that it could have been any other station but WHO. Des Moines, which broadcast on WTIC's wavelength. We spiked that argument by consulting the NEG time schedule which shows that WHO broadcasts the Voters Service program each Tuesday evening. the same as does WTIC.
 Our playmate in the composing room said he listened through three numbers and heard no announce lnent, although he shut off during one of them to call WTIC and ask what's got 1t. The folks up at the station were at loss to account for it also. saying they were hearing the same thing. They could shed no light on the question. The disgrun- tied typesetter went back to his radio Set and turned it on to find the '.singer without station" still at it. And then. In the middle of num- ber, the music faded into the dis tance quite suddenly, and nothing more was heard of it. It's quite a mystery. We're going to investigate and maybe we'll have some infor- nation by tomorrow.
 The only stations on WT1C's wave length are WCAC, Storrs, 500 watts, and there's no reason why that sta ton should have been on the air, and the chances are that there would have been a sweet heterodyne if 1t had; KFBK, Sacramento. Cali fornia, 100 watts. which Is out of the question. and WHO. Des Moines, which was broadcasting the same program as WTIC. So there you are.
 And it was stated up at the Hart ford station that they didn't know what it was. but that they had it too, 50 1t doesn't seem possible that a test program in one of the studios could have, in some queer manner. gone out on the air. It wouldn't have gone out on the air for three numbers if there had been such . program in the studio, because they