The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1949-08-06
Boston Baked
get in tune With God, 2
RY NIABE KOUNTzE


Get in tune with Cod
POPULAR CHURCH SLOGAN.
RADIO HAMS may not know
it, but I had my Hallicrafter
beamed to their last national and
international Amateur sweep
stakes" This is a contest in
which common men all over the
world proudly operate their own
transmitters and receivers to see
how far they can reach and how
many stations they can log. The
air becomes a real United Ma
tons phone line
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WHAT AMATEURS talk about
could fill book. A chap from
the East Coast (W-D might ask
a Ham from the West Coast
(W-6) for a report on his sta
tion's power and similar data.
They give items on comparative
time, the weather, location, and
technical matters. Sometimes
the guys wife (XYL) may get in
on the confab and it gets real
neighborly and makes good lis
tening.
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IN CRITICAL TIMES the
Radio Amateurs render tremen-
Aeus service to the nation rye
listened to their work during
! hurricanes and floods. When
other power and communications
! are knocked out, the Amateurs
J can still span the country. Many |
Of today's greatest electronic in
ventions came from the work
bench of Hams experimenting
with radio,
THE BAY STATE has produced I
quite a few Radio Amateurs.
I'VE met white and colored. Dur
ing my July vacation l visited
Ashley Thomas OF W1SDM. Re-
Gently we got a card from Win
ston Hunt OF W3KWK, Balti-
more, and had a visit last win
ter from Terrill Smith of WHPW,
New York. Rufus Turner of
WAY is one OF Americas fore
most electronic experts.
NOBODY KNOWS exactly |
what radio is and what poten-
tial powers it may yet have You
can take the audible sounds"
which we can hear, and mix
them with radio waves to send
them many miles. You can take
the visible light waves, we can
see. and also change them into
radio waves and transmit them
for miles. You can thus send
SOUND and PICTURES Even
newspapers and other facsimile.
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ELECTRoNIC textbooks will
tell you that you can generate
rapid radio waves called "Radar"
and aim them at passing plane
or ship in the darkest night,
These radar feelers" can inter-
cept any object. A picture-pat-
tern Of an object many miles
away can be caught on a screen
away can be caught on a screen.
There are other amazing devices.
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THE RESEARCH into what
various rays and waves can do
is still primary. Much remains
undiscovered. Now all these var
ious waves and rays existed on
Planet Earth since the begin
ming. All Of the minerals and
other items which make cleo
tronic equipment" also existed
then. Early authors Sensed this
They wrote about men pressing
buttons to make power or light
They wrote about magic boxes
making music. You read such
books.
YESTERDAYS MAGIC is to-
days real inventions. An inn
portant fact about radio equip
ment is that it must be resonant
or IN TUNE with the transmit
ter. Most home owners of broad
cast or television receivers know
what happens when their sets
are not in tune with the trans
hitting station. They either get
distortion or lose the signal en-
tirely.
THE CLERGY are now begin
ming to stress the fact that there
is a mighty important factor in
this RESONANCE theory Radio
mus be resonant. Nature must
be resonant. There is such a
shing as man being tuned TO
God" who In His way has re-
vealed all the many scientific
benefits man now enjoys. There
is wisdom in the slogan Get
In tune with God"