Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-27
T ING HAAKON VII of Nor
x way will remain awake un-
~ til the wee small hours OF
- the morning in order that

when most favorable reception
generally is the rule In this coun-
try.
Engineers made a series of tests
to discover the time when the re-
ception in the United States would
be clearest. 1t was found to be
late in the afternoon. King Haa-
kon, informed of the situation,
consented to appear before the
microphone late at night at Nida-
ros, Norway, so that his words
would reach American audiences
at the hour recommended by the
engineers.
The voice of King Haakon will
travel a long and devious route
before it reaches American re-
ceiving sets. The time will be
Wednesday evening.
His majeSty'S five-minute greet
ing, a feature of the program
commemorating the 900th ami
versary of the founding of the
cathedral at NidaroS and OF the
establishment of Christianity in
Norway, will be heard during an
hour of broadcasting beginning at
4:45 o'clock.
Land wires will carry the voice
of the monarch to Oslo and
thence to Stockholm, Sweden, &C
cording to plans announced by
engineers of the National Broad
casting Co. From Stockholm the
address will be transmitted by
wire and cable to Berlin, where it
will be broadcast by a Short-wave
station of the Reichs Rundfunk
Gesellschaft. The experimental
receiving station at Riverhead,
Long Island, will pick up these
Short-wave signals and convey
them to the N. B. G. headquarters
on Fifth avenue, New York City,
for distribution to the network.
Erling Krogh, well known Nor
wegian tenor, will follow the King
in the program. He will sing
"Naar Fjordene Blaaner," the
Norwegian song to the fjordS.
Eyvind AlnaSa, Norwegian COM
poser, will play few of the melo-
dies of his country on the great
organ recently installed in the old
cathedral The program will be
concluded with the st. >Olav choir
singing Christensen'S Hymn of
Greeting" followed by "Americap
and the Norwegian national an
them.
MORE detective stories are to
Az be dramatized before the mi
crophone. A new series will start
Thursday at $3.50 o'clock, local
time, broadcast by network of
the Columbia BroadcaSting SyS-
tenn. The series is sponsored by
Street 81 Smith and dramatiza-
lions will be based on stories ap-
pearing in a detective story pub
LEGATION. THE Serpent StingS" is
the title of the mystery thriller
opening the series.
y 4
THE first important agricultural
event of national interest to
be broadcast from overseas will
be brought to the National Farm
and Home hour listeners tomor-
row, when leading features of the
World Poultry Congress at Lon
don, England, will be carried
across the Atlantic by short wave
and rebroadcast by a network OF
N. B. G. stations.
X X
THE uncanny ability of radio
waves to penetrate far below
the surface of the earth and even
pass through solid rock was dem
onstrated to the satisfaction of
radio engineers recently at Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
A radio receiving set was in
stalled in Lookout Mountain Cave,
located about 8 miles from the
business center of Chattanooga,
and during a period Of 10 days
more than 5000 persons listened
to programs picked up by the set.
When the radio was operated at
q point in the cave about 500 feet
underground, it was possible to
tune in on large number OF sta
tons with good reception, it is re-
ported. At 1000 feet reception of
local stations continued good, but
there was some difficulty with dis
tant stations.
FOR the first time, broadcasts
from one flying airplan e
through another ship in flight
were made recently for radio fans
of a nation to hear IL they wished.
The two Hunter brothers, who set
a new endurance flight record,
were the men behind the micro
phone, talking from their ship at
various times over both the Co
lumbia BroadcaSting System and
the National Broadcasting Co.
networks. How the broadcaSting
was ACCOMPLISHED under such diff
ficult conditions is described in en-
Associated Press dispatch to The
Star.
A specially constructed micro
phone, devised to eliminate most
of the engine roar, was let down
from a radio ship of the National
Air Transport into the cockpit OF
the City of Chicago. The micro
phone was connected to the trans
mitter in the N. A. T. plane by &c
feet of cable
The flyers voices, husky from
weeks of riding behind a roaring
motor and from deafness, were
broadcast on short waves through
the apparatus of the plane above
This broadcast was picked up or
the ground and fed through ar
amplifier and the ordinary line!
to the network.
The short-wave apparatus witt
which the N. A. T. plane i;
equipped consists of an expert
mentally developed transmittel
using four tubes.
Power is derived from a 1000
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