Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1925, Page 32

o 3 SPANS ATLANTIC WITH 2.16 WATTS ;British Amateur Picked Up in New England—Code Ex- changed for Two Hours. BY CARL H. BUTMAN. ‘ Picking up 2L0O. London, broadcast ing on about 2.000 watts, ordinarily igives any fan a thrill and considerable fconfidence in himself and his receiving fans will ac to Clance H. Jackson who received L. Naylor teur lving at Shrews. g with 240 voits at 9 of & total power of only set. Consequently most for Bric fcode messa Brirish an: bury, cperat miljiamperes, 246 watt 4 Clance 1 eredit Mass., from C, wat a the owner of Bwateur station 1PL. in the new universal svstem. station U 1PL. U etanding for the United States on evening of Februa he s listening in on 96 meters, with his $wWo-tube receiver. when he heard sta- tion G 5SL at Shrewsbury. Bngland. calling American second district station. Thinking the other American might not he able to hear it, Mr. Jagk son switched on his own transmitter 2 250-watt tube set. calling G 5SL on 50 mete In about a minute he w mnsw and then these two ama geurs up communication for an four & Code Clear and Sharp. The code from G 5SL was easily regdable, Mr. Jackson says: very clear <nt, but very sharp. He succeeded in holding the Britisher. who was trans mitting with only 11 watts. while he reduced his power In stages down to .16 watts ception was without dif Bculty with his two 201-A tube r¢ cefver. Jackson says. It is be d an excellent accom lishment in reception by Jackson, but lmost phenomenal on the part of the Dransmitter. in Kngland. Mr. Naylor| teports that he worked U LPL through eonsiderable interference at his end from other stations then operating and for that reason he did not try to £o below what he roughly calis 2.2| watts in power. The exceptional part | of the he believes, lies in the| gerjal emploved. As his regular aerial Jackson is ed kept test — THE SUNDA | LONG RANGE RADIO ENTERTAINMENT SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1925 Programs of Distant Stations § 7:45—Moosebeart, 1 “heduled for Eastern Standard TO 8 AM. Catholic church services Time Stations Meters. Miles. SWJID 3028 624 8 TO & AM. 8.00—Children’'s hour: comic stories and music wiz 9 TO 10 AM, 00—Spriugfield . South Congregation feld egati phia York Noosehea $5—Pittsburgh Philadelphia 1l Protestant church ixth Pr Holy rinity Chu Church servi Church h services WBZ solos: lecturd services yterian Church services . services 10 TO 11 AM. West End Presbyterian Ch ady. Fi | mes fro Chiirch: ervices: voy Boston: Temple of Isracl services 30—Chicago: Beople's Liberal CRUICR Chicago: People's Chureh services 1AM Services from Orchestra Lansing beltry 00—Chicago Katz St. Drings: s Chicago Doty ‘a0 Theater Berrien n Studio services San ¥ Funnies read from 12 NOON 00—New York: Loew's Lexington. Th inneapolis-St n T Atlanta: Rirst Pre Fort Worth: F . HOU Springs’ Ce 30-—Boston 1710 00—Los Angales Denver: First Church Los Angeles of Christ, Church Federatic Philadelphia: Florentine Quartet. instrumen orzan recital and’ services Tos Angeies from —New Yori Fort Worth New York Philadelphi San_ Franui Portiand Sermon from studic First M- E. Church Sunday Radio Forum Kiddies' hour: Unele Day at the Actors 1 ex Mirch ‘sery Furst Presiyt ian Church Angeles: Temple w York: Queens Coun troit: News orchestra Mme. Tda S Suniay hy Musical rk venport Philadelphia Atlantie City: Orzan recital: vor 2 :50—Schenectady: WGY Symphopy hicago: Artists recital® ¢} Parkman bandstand York: Vocal and instrumenta ram New d Church of Christ. Scientist. Unitarian Society. Plymouth vocal solos: organ i tor organ recital ... . Paul: Westmnster Presbyterian Church’ sery- shyterian’ Church ‘services . Methodist Church seryices ' n ntral Avende Methodiet Church services Concert from Chinexe Restaurant . First Presbyterian Church Sclentist. Billy reads Fund Home s trom Both, enterta Vocal solos Orvheatra Musical Colleze "concert international youth rally 1 h services ryices: Al Souls” Chureh.’ . Congregationai services Choir TO 12 NOO Hall: Louisville: Organ: First Christian Church services . Chicago: Uncle Walt reads the funnics to children concert Paul’s Episcopal Church s male organ . must 3998 3702 : 2855 Chro 5 i20%8 TO 1 P 361.2 4104 . oL services ser oir - al . KHI Wi7 WBAP ntertainment. WGBS Supluy school WOO Baptist Church services Christian Endeavor prog and her pupis program 10 4 PM ew York ew York of, st Inferdenominat urches: address: New York: Sacred and ters. solox icago: Etudio convert .. Chicago . Coneert prograni Pittsburgh = Orzan’ recital services Mooseheart, §1i.: Concert program 1 Sermonette and sac Endeavor prosram York: Concert from Cen Community James” Ep: Feaeration o ate City from St delphia service, v i 110 dad been blown down, he was usin % Yemporary single antenna 70 feet’ fn lenzth. [t reached from the Jead in. 7 fee we the ground, to : mast 28 feet high, thence down to Gounterpoise post. The height of the aérial at the far end was eet and only- 5 feet from the counterpoise. Hi @onnterpoise was composed of four 50- | foot spaced 4 feet apart, and ¢ | feet hish. Mr. Navler used an induc | dyely coupled Hartley cireuit, em Ploving Muilard valve and ste. Fie great credit to the owner of U 1PL for Tds o 1 with the reduced Z Aleo Got Switzerland. on is » has recaived which _operate plate onl, D KT emn oy the $ recent transoceanic stare station owners Bnginnd, Belgium, wnd, CGiermany, Luxem! Heazil, Costa Rica and New tie hay & list of nearly 200 stations. He has wo tratja 33 timesand Apy Jack oo wokicer Swiss witk than Smos spon ra He tic AD), voitas test corre G b I H Deranar Zealand “iic land 60. oofver ang. expe soon: e jeter it after | Av owns three short® 20, 40 and $0 melter: rate on mrter: built a new trans to 40 meters, t! calls “The 1PL.” which h s station ¢ Local Radio Entertainment Sunday, May 17, 1925. NAA—Naval Radio Station, Rad (1215 Meters). am. and 10 p.m.—Weather 1003 reporis WPM—Church- of the Covenant ( Meters). Fvervgirl®s Bible cluss, Mrs Ketchum,' tencher | Morning-service, Sermon | Charies Wood: “How Living | Are Made. S m Evenin B3 Dr. Woopion Boul From the Klowers - Music by the evening choir of volces. WCAP — Chesapeake Telephone Co. (468.5 Meters). $1 am —Service from Grale Re formed Church of Washington. Dr Hepry H. Ranck. pastor, will deliver the sern i 10 a.n Tving 11 a.r Ly Rev. Creeds ! service. Sermon | A Message to the and Birds.” | 100 and Potomac from Bethiche Cathedral of The sermon Rev. James I3 | the Episcopal | n “Roxie and the Capitol wurch ed by Freeman. Bishop @iocese of Washingt [ 815 p.m direct from New York City » to 9:15 pan.—Organ recital by Garrabrant, direct from the Skinner Organ Co., N assisted by Theodore Karl American concert tenor iheock: violinist. w the his T studio « Fork Cit voll: L nd Joy 1 ¥ Program Monday. Morning “Setting the Metropolitan | direct from the | 1. Madison ave- | *: Fea ¢ $:45 10 7 p r 2 Tnsu Aétropolita nue. New WRC—Rzd = ilent i.m es . by nee Ce Tower, York ¢ty Corporation of America (168.5 Meters). Early Program Tomorrow. 1 p.m.-Luncheon concert Fotel Shoreham Orchestra SHIP COF«.’!PM‘IY SUFFERS FROM U. S. ALIEN LAWS Cotespondence of the Associnted Prass. ROTTERDAM, Holland, April 22 American immigration restrietions are the bughbear of most European trans- atgntic shipping companfes! and to them the Jolland-America. Line at- iributes’ to a great extent the unfa- vorable aspect of its financlal yvear. *“Although no mitigation. of the American tmmigration laws is to he expécted for.a few vears to come,” the financial report of the company says, “wa believe that this restrictive policy canget endurs, because the continned deveiopment =7 the vast territory of 1he ~ United & es must ultimately being about a shortage of labor, and it 1§ plain that tn the end American indfistries, under the pressure of high wages, will not be in a pesition to compete with a reorganized Europe.” | Tn view of the American restric- | tions, the special Polish emigrant | segvice from Danzig to Rotterdam had | 16" be discontinued, the report hut against this diminished emigrant traffic the company sets an increased trayeling impetus among well-to-do Americans, and it is upon the devel- opfaent of the high-class passenger traffic that the efforts of all trans- atlantic lines saust now be concen- trdteds by 00—New York String Chicaxo: Cla Kt recital ew York: Dextra Male T B Chorus, » nkin Howel Hope of from nsical hymns irenestia P ¢ George's Episcopal Chur “hurch sary ¥ Aida Brass New York: Entertamnment for aid to Hebrew infanty Uar Chopus music by St Mume Lovers' Association al " solo, Shadyeide First Unitarian ‘h vesper services s Federation, uarte Paul’s Préstiyterian’ Chireh hinies concert al Park Ha al Chirch Churches nd Dance Orclestra rvices WNAC Uiiversity WO KPO OO WLIT weeo Orohestra Presivterian Church Church WHAS prozram by choi KFUO WDAF KOA eram. Sunday 670 3 PAL 00—New Yark: Ernie Ge stianta. Grant Park “20—New- Y ork: M.si-a) e, n's Hotel Jetho st i oy Orchestra Chur Little Sym Ivary i Wainut 45—Cincimiatl N Cit Hills” Christian Church wMCA WsB Ipia O wiih stations WEEIL WEAF “anta’ Orchestra i dotel Trasmoie organ woo services WERC 7 TO 8 PO 00. el York. Eunice Maxwell Howara, strumental solvs. Chicuvo Classical concert, Jenectady: First ato: ©luh service 1 rimetiodd Grean 1acital Lalias: i irst Preshyte 7 I3 New 107R: Berntiard Levitow s Hot jointly ‘with New York of Heal t Church Chureh Music Church services station WGY KF1 Wz, WB WGY CIKYW BZ X Vocal and - tal 1l Soul’s Church Hall: music r Quartet ore Orhe S WIY WMCA WREOQ . WOC organ 8 T0 9 P cram « Lakewood Farm Inn OFc} tan Chu Hote e-Haddon H im Brooklyn 8 A, Choral Singers Children's hour: stories Radio Lizhthot cotad fr with Mations ond g wa City rien Springs New York: O roacast jointly WOTS ‘and W, 20— Minneapolis-St. Paul J0—Atlanta: North Av < Moines: Reese-Hugh New York: “Faust.” V. us and full ore 8:45-—Jeflerson Cily: First ¢ i's opera. 9:00—New Yo Godfrey Ludlow Dovenport: Mount Ida Dallas: First M. E. Church servic New K Grace Divine. contral San ciseo: State s Stra = Oreh New York: ¢ Chieago Los Ang Zion, 111 Portiand $0—Hot _Srir Hotel Los Angeles 50-—Denver: First Tl On Semi-charus. Zion’ ( menis ' of *Christ, M and his Rainb from Wilkhive Congregational Choir Skinner Organ Co W i of Christ terian hestra violinis Prosivterian Church services Restaurant Orchestra: oir and’ Saxophone ‘Quintet Weather fore Sriewtist WBCN tra. . WIZ KDRA WHAR WPG WNYC LWQJ orchestra Gardens Orchestra string quartet! talk guartet solos, I WJIAR. WCAF Scientist Church services with” professionalcast WGBS WOS WGY and Wiz o AA Dianist Palace Hotel WeBD KGW s converi By the New Ariington ast: music taik 10 TO 11 les: Metropolitan ‘Thenter Colnirn s Coneert ¢ rcan recital fr Sin Prancisco: Yo Towne Cryer Minneapohe-St. Paul: Weith Droeam. vocal and in.trumenta fow iy Hymns By Midred Pad Lox " Angeles 10:00—Los An Iane Los Angeles 10.15—St. 1 10:30—Davenport Dallas: J s O-Keh ehestra Firet M Charch entartainments ball scores K mezz0-s0prano releR heater nstrumental orehest Orchestra 11 POL TO 12 MIDNIGHT. Frolic Murray Classical pro Ambassador by De Horton's Hotel t Springs ncinnati Los An, Angeles ¢ neert e Hotel Orchestra hestra al progran MIDNIGHT TO 1 12 00—Fort Worth Los Angeles Moosehe ente: Midnizht frolie: dance Musical program T Concert: Charley ainers - Bill 1:00. Hennessy NOW SIGNING OFF SOON TO STOP AT STATION WLW Program Will Be Closed With Ap- propriate Quotation—¢Please Stand By” Also to Go. “Now signing off” will be heard no more from WLW at the completion of the programs. Instead, there will be given 'an appropriate quotation, such as “Great thoughts, like little deeds, need no trumpet: good night.” When “signing off” came into use in the early days of wireless teleg: raphy it served a definite purpose in informing the other radio operators that they could answer the message and the sender would, if possible, listen in for it. Since the modern radlo broadcasting does not touch the general field of conversation but is used principally for entertainment purposes, the station’s officlals feel there is no longer any need for the “signing off.” “Please stand by” is another phrase that is no longer used at the WLW studlo. A special microphone is used to tell the artist when to “prepare” and when to “broadcast” and-through the use of the solo and ensemble studios it permits a continuous pro- gram without interruption and mak- ing it unnecessary to ask the radio audience to “pleas: stand by’ while thesstudio is being arranged for the next number, as is the case where only one studio is available in a broadcasting station. Angeles Pearls are composed almost en- tirely of -calcium carbonate of lime. Soto Dance st 170 2 A and his orchestra: Orchestra hestra 1d jnstrumental Orchest: Rudy Alm Seiger’s Fair KPO KHI A .WBA KNX and SUwan program cht's Orchestra solos KF1 VIGILANCE COMMITTEES SOLVE RADIO PROBLEMS Activities Lessen ‘Interference” Complaints in Many Cities, Re- lay League Says. Special Dispatch to The Star. HARTFORD, Conn., May 16.—Vigi- lance committees, used by the Ameri- can Radio Relay League to clear up the-question of various kinds of radio interference in communities through- out the country, have, according to re- ports to league headquarters in this city, justified their existence in every community where they are working. Buffalo, N. Y., has achieved note, due to the accomplishments of its com- mittee. Other cities that have shown important results after the appoint- ment of committees are Oakland and San Francisco, Calit;; Elizabeth, Bloomfleld and Bayonne, N. J. In a number of radio clubs throughout the country interference committees per- form the same duties. According to one investigator in Denver, there are a host of causes aside from the interference from near- by transmission stations. In several instances, notably in Buffalo, com- plaints were made by owners of sets which, on investigation, proved to be of such low efficiency that they were unable to successfully tune out inter- fering broadcast stations on wave lengths near those which the owner sought. In such cases the advice of the vigi- lance committee is confined to useful radio information. for the. set owner, 51 Y B8TAR, FEW NEW STATIONS ARE GIVEN LICENSE List of Applicants Falls Off as U. S. Seeks to Discourage More Broadcasting Centers. of to The rising tide stations is balieved checked The list of new broadcasters Ii- censed this week notes only five new- comers. In the meantime, it is said at the Department of Commerce, a large number of littleused stations are giving up their permits and leaving the broadcast field to their more persistent enthusiasts. Included in the stations officially welcomed this week is WHT, the new Class B plant of Chicago. which is listed as belonging to the Radiophone Broadeasting Corporation, Deerfield, 1. Unable to obtain gne of the high class B wave lengths, WHT has ac cepted the 238meter wave and is making the best of it with 1,500 watts of power. The other four new stations are all class A plants, three in the Middle West and one-in the East. Thev are | WGBW, Spring Valley, 1. 10| watts, 256 meters: WIEK, the Umi versity of the City of Toledo, Ohio, 100 watts. 2054 meters; WIBI, Flushing, N. Y.. 5 watts, 218.8 meter; and WIBJ. Chicago, 5 meters. The falling off in applications dur ing the past three weeks, according to Chief Radio Supervisor W. D. Terrell, is believed to have resulted from letters of discouragement sent to prospective station builders. As soon as information is received either in Washington or at the offices of any one of the district radio super that a new broadcast under consideration letter goes out | explaining that wave lengths are hard to find and in man ses entirely unavailable. RADIO GOSSIP AND NEWS . The Signal Corps radio net of United States Army is standardiz its receiving sets at &7 radio stations | which ope dafly throughout the | year. carrving Government messages | to practi Al points in the country the standard re | ceivers are now used in the messaze | center in the Munitions Building. It is a loop apparatus. the loop antennas | on the roof turned at will by the | operator to aid directional, reception. | The firct unit is a loop tuner, the next a stage of tuned radio, followed | by a flter transformer unit, and finally & universal amplification with | | two audio tour radio amplific tion tubes The filte transformer signed broadeasting be definitely i i | the a other ex Six peanut tubes are WD-11 tubes radio frequenc s noises aplifier are empioved in the | stage and as dete Anxic to keep up with short-wave operat the Signal Corps is havir six s b at ']\r[ Signal DS laboratory at th Sureau Standards experi- | mental use at different stations of the | nation-wide net. Co-operating with | Bellevue, the naval short-wave statior near Washington, the Signal Corps plans to in: 1l the new short-wave | receivers Leavenworth, Ka Douglas, Utah; Sam Houston, Tex., San Franciseo and Chicago, fo ariy | recepticn tests from Bellevue on 20 meters. It is the plan to try out short-wave reception at many places in the United Statessto see where it would be practical o attempt _this type of long-distance circuit. . The re- ceivers will be moved about from time to time. » as to ate and avold any dead spots which might prevent efficient operation on 20 meters. Later on, if the new routes or circuits can be worked out, the gnal Corps plans to have several short-wave transmitters built. with a hope of carrying on long-distance trans. continental night, and possibly light, communication in the of efficiency and economy, ju Navy now handles FEuropean® tra each night on a special short-wave set | using only very little power. the tors | | | | ers 1 Increased Power for Two Static WLW and WSAL two broadcaste: located near Cincinnati., bave been authorized to use power as high us 5,000 watts. This information may come as a shock to some skeptical fans who have feared any great in crease in power, for they are the firs: two KW stations. The new licenses catalogue the power as “500 to 5,000 watts.” It is requested that they discretion, observing suggestions the district radio supervisor if inte ference is created by the increased | power The main factor which influenced the Department of Commerce to grant these licenses was the fact that they are both located out of town, where |any reasonahle interference would not be detrimental to the local r ception of dis stations. WLW, the Crosley stat is_in Harrison and WSAIL, the United States Playing Card Station, is in Mason, Ohio. Radio officials in Washington are disposed to grant qualified class B stations similar authority fcr increased power, it their transmitters are set up out side the crowded urban districts. WEAF, the A. T. & T. Co. station New York, has been authorized to ase its power to 2,500 watts being now the next highest powere.i station. Increased power, especially during the Summer months, wiil, it is 1 lieved, override static and make for better reception nationally this year than during any previous season by WGE be broad t from WGBS tonight in the series of espe- cially adapted radio grand opera spon sored by an Italian-language paper of New York. The cast includes Charles Hart, who will sing the tenor roie of “Faust”: Rosalindo Rudko, soprano: Alfredo Valente, bass; Silvio Garavelli, baritone, and Anna Iago, contralto. “Aida” has been scheduled as the operatic feature for May 26. WGY will be linked with WGBS for this attraction. use I? Opera Schedule “Faust will More Radio Conferences. The proposal of the radio commis- sion of the League of Nations, sug- gesting that a preparatory conference | on radio be held by .the coun&ries of Europe in 1926 prior to the) Inter-| national Radio Telegraph Conference ariginally -scheduled for Washington September next, is being considered| informally by Government officials congerned with radio «activities. ~No, officfal copy of the suggestion has as yet reached this Government, which is of course not a party to the league. However, a8 the guestion involves the| date of the International Radio Con- ference here, it is understood it is now being discussed unofficially. In its report to the transit and communications committee of the league the radio telegraph commit- tee pointed out that such a parley among the European governments, or at least their radio representatives, appeared desirable so as to expedite the work at Washington. The report implies that similar conferences might well be held by non-European states, fnasmuch as the Pan-Americas had a Jjoint conference last Summer in Mexjco City concerning _the radio problems of the Western Hemisphere. The report was rendered by repre- sentatives of Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium and Uruguay. It aiso is suggested that the questions com: mon to radio telegraphy and teleph:. ony, including broadcasting as well / | WASHINGTON | tions have agreed to abandon the old D. C, MAY 17, John Smith and His Radio BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL Car owners throughout the world have fullowed John Smith in his daily motoring—and have benefited thereby. Now he has taken up radio, and is willing that' his fellow fans evening cxperiences. Smith has a ill pay radio devotces to follow No. 16—Inexperience Spoils a Concert. With invited guests to listen in on the speechmakers at a prominent banquet, Smith was ag behavior as a radio ope best proved to be rather feeble. He| blundered from the very beginnins | by glving his audience a taste of the clarity and volume from a nearby station, thereby putting them in & bad mood for listening to a distant | station that naturally would call closer attention His next mistake was to wait until the speeches commenced before tuning in on the desired station. Tt was not so much that he missed some of the opening remarks because of the nn.u] consumed fn tuning, but mainly that he doubled his difficulties. There had | been several opportunities to tune in | the station before the broadcasters witched the control from the studio | to the banquet hall, but each time| he dialed for the station and caught 4+ voeal selection he told his idience that he hada’t invited them to hear music and that he would hold off until the real show was on Had he used the finale of the vocal program for tuning in on the st tion. he would not have been s pletely upset by a local station suddenly on at the appointed | time Yor the hanguet addresses. This | confused him to a point where it was 10 minutes before he could locate his desired station well enough to know that when he was cutting out the local station he was not also cutting out the banquet The chances are that if the set been all tuned for the banquet local station would have come in a sort of obbligato. And it would have heen relatively easy with so selective his to have tuned out the without losing the banquet s: the same time. Going at it the way he did he was virtually trying to catch the obbligato of a distant - station through a broadly tuned local one That is always difficult. “But my troubles had only begun,” Smith told me the next evening. “No sooner had T demonstrated my fnabil ity to make a good job of tuning for the distant station that one of the ests sought to help me out by sug sting that we be content with the local program. 1 thought that would T easy, but when I brpught it in learly 1 noticed that some of the people looked annoved. The tones were harsh and there was a lot of static, but 1 had to let it zo at that “Of course 1 tried plugging in so cut out one of the amplifier but while that eliminated the it eliminated the detail in on his best | ator, but his | - that can had the as 18 wire t onsidered conference now phy and telephe the Paris telegraph | set to be held in Sep. ember. If this is done. action on | international radio questions could | hardly be taken until after the Paris | essions Since a_reasonable ot e | between the conferences must be al owed for delegates to return to thefr | ountries for ing and further| instructions, well to secure funds, it is probable that the United ates Govetnment will accede to the | suggestion. when it is filed officially. | If the European interests confer in | the Spring of 1926, it is possible that | this Government might set the radio | conference for late in the I early In 1927 1oy repor Call Letter Changes Among recent call lette the department announces tion WDBS, Dayton. Ohi the SMK™ Radio (o designated at WSMK 500 watts, meters: WTAF, New | Orleans, La.. owned bv Owl Battery Co., is now WOWL, power {00 watts, meters, and WTAY, Oak Park, IIL, | ne Elect School, is now . power watts, 250 meters. changes, | that sta- . owned by | poration, is now operating with | cal order Interference Improved. That broadcast reception along the an border will be improved assured, according to Chfef United States Supervisor of Radio W. D. Terrill, who recently returned here frohi the Canadian-United States radio conference at Detroft. Some three hundred ships operating on the Lakes.and about twenty. coastal sta- ems 600-meter wave length, which fered with radio broadcasting. remains for the two governments to approve the recommendations of the conferance that these commercial and ship stations communicate on 715 and 875 meters or higher. effective July 15. As in all radio conferences, Mr. Ter- rill says the spirit of co-operation was marked, not only the officials of the two governments but representatives of the private radio interests agree- ing on the changes suggested. It 18 believed that the relief suggested will be, found beneficial to broadcast lis- teners in all northern States. The complete recommendations adopted follow “All_Canadign and American and ship stations on the Great Lakes open for general public service busi- ness must be equipped to work on a wave length of 715 meters, which will be the normal wave length of the sta- tion. All Canadian and American sta- tions must maintain a watch on this wave length. “A wave length of §75 meters is authorized for handling of general public service correspondence. The use of this wave length by coastal sta- tions and vessels is optional. “Communication between a coastal station and a station on shipboard or between ship stations shall be ex- changed on the part of both by means of the same wave length. “For geéneral public service com- munications between ship and shore and ship and ship when working with stations other than the nearest sta- tion must be on a wave length of 875 meters or higher. Communication with a distant station will not be permitted if interference with the nearby station results. “All correspondence transmitted from a ship or shore station will be in regular message form and copies of these communications must be placed on file. “The practice of transmitting notes under the prefix S. V. C. or carrying on unofficial conversation must bei continued.” RADIO RULES ANNOUNCED. A recent announgement of the De- partment of Commerce indicates its effort. to clear up the broadcasting | band and is heralded with delight by | the fans. It reads as foliows: i “Radlo stations of the United States | are no longer heing licensed to use 300 and 450 meters except broadcast- ing stations. The 430-meter wave may be used, however, by ship stations in communicating with foreign compass statlons. Foreign ship stations should not attempt to communicate with sta- tions of this country on either the 300 or 450 meter wave length.” i il inter- It only coast Export Figures Cut. | Revised figures for total United | States radio exports during I\la\'ch" show that $604,769, and not $664,726, as recently announced by the Depart- | ment of Commerce, is the total value. | o TR dio Case Postponed. The Federal Trade Commission has, postponed indefinitely the taking of testimony in the alleged radio mo- nopoly case, set originally for May 18 in* New York City. - » | speak, 1925—-PART 1. should be amused and profit by his Jaculty for “finding out things.” so him in The Sunday Star each week. One of the women present insisted upon hearing the words of her favorite song, o I went back ‘o the full num- bher ¢f tubes and turned down the rheostats as much as I spoiling it altogether. 1 didn’t Jike {t, but what I do?" “You could have been a little more experienced,” I told him frankly “Perhaps you think that you're wast- time some evenings when you tune jn o nothing in particular, but by now you probably realize that this gives you practice so that when you have company and want to show them what a good set vou have you need not get off that old story about the radio being like a bashful child, this particular case if you had been + little more experienced you would have solved vour tuning and volume problem with the local station by first tuning it in sharply on all the tubes and then throwing one of the dials off littie. By detuning, so to instead of red: ng amplific: tion or current. you could have had volume with clarity mith, however, other troubles on they, could know else had two or three his mind, and we had to run along to these. They. too. volved experience, but he deeided to try a little intensive radioing while he was on the subject. It explains why he was game enough to admit uld without | In| ADVENTURES OF BY FREDERIC W Washington's Favor, Ever and anon it is suggested that I ought always to include among these tri-weekly ruminations the most amus- ing adventure 1 have just had. An experience last weck measures up to those specifica- tions. It has to do with Washington favorite indoor | sport—the passing | of the buck in| high places. aas b Having seen that | the naval alrship Los Angeles was scheduled to make an“industrial mobilization” flight over the Delaware River in the region of| Philadeliphia and | vicinity T thought | I'd like to be aboard. The trip suggest ed both radio and writing possibilities. 1 called up the vy Department, where 1 have many friends. They s ifl“ | they were sorry, but that permission | to cruise in the Los Angeles could only be obtained from the War Depart- ment. §o I called up the War Depart- ment, where 1 also have comrade They' said they were sorry, too, but that only the Navy Department could issue cards for the Los Angeles’ flight. Then I gave it up. 1 MR. WILE. that he finally spoiled the evening by dropping a radio amplifier t when he had removed it for inspec the contacts, as my spare tube that instailed just a few days ago, he explained, *“so I was up against it “or what?" I startied him. For a tube, of course. Are vou sure it was not tle resourcefulness?” [ ““There was a time when you had to send the family home b train just be: cause the engine stalled, but tho: days have passed. Nowadave you use a little gray matter and get home on your wits. You'll goon be doing the same with your radio set. could have used one of the amplifier tubes in place of the burn ed-out racio amplifier, and then given them an earful with a little less am plification. There's alwavs something on the air that you can get even your set isn't tuned up for what you would prefer.” When Smith bought a new tube the next day he felt as if he were buy ing a ticket to new opportunities in T had for a lit audio | radio pleasure and instruction. Next week, No. Stations. (Copyright 1925_by the Ullman Feature RADIO’S BEST OFFERINGS TONIGHT. Musical program “Roxie and his Gang," direct from the Capitol Theater, New York City, WCAP, Washingtc WEAF, New York: WEEIL Boston; WJAR, Providence: WCTS, Worcester, and WW]J, Detroit, 6:20 to 8:15 o'clock. Concert by Bernhard Levi- tow's Hotel Commodore Or- chestra, WJY, New York. and WGY, Schenectady, 7:15 o'clock. Musical program by Joseph Knecht's Lakewood Farm Inn Orchestra, WJZ, New York, 8 to 9 o'clock. Organ recital by Maurice Garrabrandt, direct from Skinner Organ Co., WCAP, WEEI WEAF, WJAR, W(CTS, and WW], 8:15 to 9:15 o'clock. “Faust,” Verdi's Opera, with a professional cast, chorus, and full orchestra, WGBS, 8:30 o'clock. Program from the Brooklyn Mark Strand Theater, WNYC, New York, 8 to 10 o'clock. Musical program by Murray Horton's Hotel Alms Orches- tra, WKRC, Cincinnati, 11 o'clock. SEES RADIO ADVANCE. Expert Says Business Men Will Send Own Messages. Donald Murray, a British electrical engineer, believes that within a period from 15 to 20 years business men throughout the world will have s their service telegraph systems by wire and wireless far more rapid and serviceable than the present equip- ment, and probably cheaper. He refers to the co-ordination of wire and radio services with recordinz mu chines, like the teletype, which prin communications just as they are transmitted. The three “Ts"—the telephone, type- writer and typist, always indispensible to the business man—will sdon_be augmented with a feurth factory the teletype, he claims. e Swiss Antennas Regulated. Switzerland has taken steps to es- tablish uniform regulations for the erection of antennas which encroach upon the public domain. The details are left to municipal authorities, but standard methods of swinging aerials not over private property and general regulations are followed as to avoid conflict between the state and the city rules. Several cities are re- ported to have established regulations for erecting antennas, but the director of Swiss telegraphs supervises the, local rules, seeking uniformity. WLW U:és Fuil Power. WLW'S superpower station is now using _its full strength of 5,000 watts. The Department of Commerce autho: ized the increased power after a num- ber of successful tests showing that the station caused no undue interfer- ence to fans in Cincinnat '~ WE SERVICE Exide, Willard, U. S. L., Philco, Westing| or any other make of battery, - either Automobile or Radio Phone us before 10 am. and deliver your RADIO battery the same evening for $1.50—Fastest and best service in the city. - SMITH’S Battery and Radio Service North 2928 North 4806 You | if | | _The episode recalled something | Vice President Dawes once told me | when he was director of the budget. | He found that the Navy or the War | Department-—I forget which—had on | |hand several hundred thousand | | brooms. left over from the war. When | |we began disposing of surplus war | stock helter-skelter, these brooms were | sold to a job-lot dealer for a song. | Not lonz "afterwards, according to Dawes, either the Navy or the War | Department needed brooms, and ad- | vertised for bids. The joblot dealer thereupon turned around and sold the brooms he'd bought from the Govern- | |ment back to the Government at three or four times what he paid for them! *% &% to So radio is helping the Navy | fight the bootleggers out on Rum Ro It suggests that henceforward we shall not associate “the three R's” with “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion the slogan that cost James G. Blaine | the presidency in 1884. Hereafter they | will ‘stand for rum, radio and retribu tion * Several inq to discuss Pres in my latest | aug: da Wi angur * % es refer fo my faflure Von Hindenburg He was in- T spoke, Tues Evidently some of the choir expected comment on his in. 1 address. I ignored the event | deliberately. 1 thought it better to wait for events in Germany and Furope to crystallize hefore attempt ing an analysis. We shall commune the subject May 2 * ok ox x | writing from | out on Sixteenth street in all directions, is a | masts on roofs of houses and apart- | ment buildings. They remind me of | nothing so much as the tops of ships {in a crowded harbor. The illusion is all the greater as I survey the aerial | strung hither and thither like the | rigging of ships. Hardly a day seems |to pass without more of these masts | | sprouting into the sky and more wire | e-work stretched across the hor- | These things tell me that radio n n work den | Around me vista of my INTERFERENCE STUDY | PLANNED WITH TRUCK | Radio Section of Commerce Depart- ment to Send Vehicle Out on Three-Month Tour. | The radio section ment of Commerce is preparing to equip a motor truck for a three- month tour in search of colliding broadcasts The truck probably will be started from Detroit within the next few weeks and after touring the imme- diate vicinity will cover a good part of the Great Lakes district pecial |apparatus designed by the Bureau of |Standards for measuring field inten- | | of the Depart sity of superpower stations and also other sensitive receivers and loops will be loaded on the touring detec- tor. Under the radio section’s original plans, a fleet of these motor trucks would have been scattered through- out the United States this Summer to conduct a Nation-wide study of |interference and interfering waves. | Failure of Congress to allow an ap- propriation for the work upset the elaborate program. It was pointed out vesterday by department officials that the spe- cially-equipped motor truck is by far the best means for tracing radio interference. Careful reports will be made on the research work of the Detroit truck, and will be used as the basis for again asking an appropria- tion by Congress this Winter. With the coming of superpower, it was id, constant attention must be paid to the conflict of the broadcasting stations operating on higher power. British Ships’ Radio Popular. Radio broadcast reception at sea is becoming quite popular on craft fly- ing the British flag, according to ap- plications received by the British post office. Fifty receiving licenses have been issued to individuals on board commercial and private vessels where broadeast reception is desired for pas- sengers and sailors. Several of the permits have. been issued to officers and members of ship’s crews owning receiving apparatus. WCAU on 248 Meters. WCAU, Philadelphia, has begun operation on a new wave length, 248 meters. Its former wave conflicted with those of several other class A astern stations. The timber resources of California are valued at 750 million dollars. Presto-O-Lite, house we will call for, fully charge, and 2119 18th St. N.W. | tiple A BROADCA TER ILLIAM WIL Radioscribe. ite Indoor Sport. is on the and march not 3 * 28 “Cantigny day" the of the Ist Division. 'This w anniversary is to be celebrated on the air. Officers of the division, with Gen, shing as guest of honor, will commemorate that haptismal #nd triumphant test of the fighting quali- ties of our expeditionary force a dinner in Washington. 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