Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1925, Page 31

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (.. AUGUST 9, 1925—PART 1.. : e e e upper stratums for half of the day |“There is at present mno- intention Radio Electrocutes Aviator. It was explained that the combina. !n radio district In the enforcement of. period, which may change the polarity | whatever of making any radical change | The death of Flight Serst. Frank | tion of these several faults undoubt- | the radio laws and regulations : | RADIO GOSSIP AND NEWS of the earth and air, he states. Much |in the wave length assignment,” the Lowry, “RBA: ., (kiiea: while'. eon 'w”v. caused the death of the radio | include the irspect thp matter broadcast is not essential, he | department states. ¥o indication of any static ustment of asserts, citing prohibition and evolu-| A query from the Radlo League as | yecr the. Angover Atromrome in Fne s found. The generator was and pr ducting radio experiments in the air a | & | tion doctrines and reports. Adding a ; %4 = | turning out considerabl ore tha b rom the s Broadcasting of motion pictures will | clarionets tends to overmodulate the | {itat what we do need. 1a witer for o | ouri pise, made of this band by ama- | jand, was n mystery until recently. | 1660 yolta customarily used, it was | o th. hih powe | be the next outstanding advance in | microphone. Moving toward the mi- least half a crop. He believes we could | o, = o At first it was thought he was killed determined, and the faulty insulation ‘Ih!‘ aropbor et gt 5 0 many wrote to the department. There o g o tions, and inspect the field of radio, according to At-|pioPhY :fi,xtfh,‘:,,"f“fe;‘{‘_;?“flm‘;‘:m,rhéfi dispense with the nightly screech and |5 of course, a possibility that the | 'Y, IEhtning, or possibly by the con-| ¢ the metal head phones, due to the | storage buttery plant o i - & : scratch until it could be determined | : : : ® | troversal “death " but, as his|ground, caused the electric power to ! fiary used in connectio water Kent of Philadelphia, a member | the brass section, followed by the sax- | STEC Vor not “We. are e meping | matter may 'be Drought up at the | jiici cscaped tnjury, those sofutions | Ecound: caused tho electric power to |liary used in connection of Secretary Hoover's committee on|oP anjos, drums, traps and |pojsture conditions. the question would not be passed on | Were discarded pronounced most unusual, and pre-| ments of wave le dec 50,000 - Watt Transmilter | broadcasting. | Xvlophones are always placed farthest | "o asks that his suggestion be for- | finally without a full hearing from | On the testimony of Flight Lieut.|cautions will be taken to prevent sim. | power used by all of the E the ici « 1 ardes o r i -+, o1 " | » ¥ Mr. Kent has been intensely inter- | L aaplcopnone, T Larded to the proper authorities, 80 | the amateurs themselves and their | Cyril N. Ellen it was decided that | jlar accldents in the R. A. F. measurements of the re Paves Way for Experiments |estea in the recent transmission of | them would drown out ail the rest | ''*!!tS merit may be judged. officials. this unfortunate radio expert, the! L capacity of the antenn i . ” | were v pla e sentes 1 | Tha 2 < 200 | Senior wireless man of his squadron,, {tiaE forl Tsalo ! Instramay : motion pictures by ¢ Jenkins, | Were they placed nearest the center. Amateurs Still Hold Channels. | peter chmme) Bemiin mictorn2'0s | was electrocuted by his own radio| Radlo Engineers' Examination. | making the measurem With 100,000-Watt Plant. | washington inventor, and predicted | —_— i 3 e Fall radio conference, but even then | H 3 A recent letter from the Department | the contrary, is shown by the league, | 2PParatus, which was found defective | The Civil Service Commission has | amination for license of ar | that soon “radio movies” will be| oover Urged to Stop Radio. | of Commerce to the American Radio | which states that about 50 per cent in meveral waya. innounced the holding of examina-| commercia dio operations shown as clearly and large as those| Secretary Hoover has been asked to | Relay League assures those of the amateur traffic is handled on The fan propeller on his wind-!tions for junior radio engineers to|assist in the f the e By Consolidnted Press flashed on the screen in a moving | StoP all radio transmission, because it | that the wave band betws 50 and | the 150 to 200 meters in this country. | driven generator was too large, giv-|assist the radio inspectors of the De- | tion paper e appoir SCHENECTADY, N. Y., August 8. | 28he |is believed to be affecting weather | 200 meters will not be taken from the | Twelve and a half per cent of ama- |ing more revolutions than desirabie | partment of Commerce in their fleld |also be familiar with hi The term “superpower broadcast, | Picture theater. | conditions particularly in the S amateurs without good cause and |teur stations still operate in the top |to the generator; faulty insulation in|and technical office work. The ex-|power line installations i fon." which has come into| “When it is remembered that radio| The writer, a citizen of Mississippi, | after due notice. bands, it is stated. Many have found | the head phones, which were of a|aminations will be held at most im-|he may conduct t ce recently through the | broadcasting stations and broadcast- s if it is not possible that we are | The present regulations provide that | that for long distance work or what | metal type, was discovered, while the | portant cities, Washington, | ination” of inductz ental plant of the |l B music of whole vau- | diSturbing the structure of the atmos. | amateurs ve exclusive use of this |they term “super D the channels | accumulator supplying the low ten-| D. C. The un from $1,860 | with receptios tric Co., at first hearing | 8 W 7 """ | phere by means of io transmissions. | band, and, although it has been sug- |below 150 meters serve them better. | sion for his transmitter was ground- | a year in Washington, with promo- | with X-ray and sim that is tremendous and | deville shows and operas are acheieve-| [t js apparently agreed, he points out, | gested frequently that some of the |But the upper band is by no means|ed in the airplane. Also his volt-| tions, to § , with change in as-|paratus i ments of the past 10 years,” he said, | that matter is simply electrons in its | channels in this band are needed for [abandoned, and the league protests meter was burned out, which prevent- | signment. | telligently lity it is neither. The | “perfection of radio motion pictures | final analysis. We are sending end- | broudcasting, the department is not |againet any proposal to reallocate |ed his knowing what'voltage he was| Junior radio engineers will be re.|complaints resulting from t : e ‘lxsn‘nllig.p as it 1? xl;)o\“ during the next few years seems a | - s Dl s In considering the plan at this time. — channels. | using. quired to t the supervisor of!tion of such devices. ingly referred to by corps of m e = Y ave mada & sosiblo. i an un. | §0al likely to be attained. | s TSI 1 ntd apparatus, which, | “Recent success in radio vision ex t first % K periments indicate that by 1935, and /) he opera as a modest class A sta- | perhaps even sooner, we can sit at ton s the improbable monster that | home and watch the playing of a it was considered a year ago. championship base ball series, pro In less than a half vear it s | jected on a radio picture screen, be-| t the 50,000-watt | sides hearing the umpire’s voice and t ter will hav ntled | the crow rs, which the sound | 07/4 r nd in s stead W erected a | receiving e ks up. ~ g~ = wive Shooter just twice as powerful. | ““Possibilities of such apparatus are And the 100-KW transmitter will | unlimited. I tion of the Pres S ok - assuming than | dent, maneuvers of battleships, horse | its i 2 and foot ball games could be | Schenec iper station, as it d by persons all over the na stands in its component parts, would | tion, at the time they happened, for ot be a terriflc drain on the pocket | Waves carry the picture across the | i ; cost in | continent in less than a second. | “Cost of a radlo vision machine for homes is only a matter of specula tion vet, but it seems that it could Iy_put_into | be made'as accessible as high-powered : Thescra -t only tatlve dt-ihesc riche orerstuficd SR I SVICT s IS0V T e R na S o - : taupe Mohair 3-piece Suites to go at this price, This plent Swes Cconiracted fand me ok e - [ : alue inclides a long davenport bed, fireside chiaie and ec 1 doze es. s b § t r. a ed t sprin f d loos: ushions o Yoy o half and three | WJIR to Make Its Debut. \ = club chair, all fitted with spring-flied loose_cushior Detroit's new high-powered Priced now at what is u y asked for this suite if WJR, will make it bow to e dience Saturday night. The inaugural program will begin at o'clagk and | 1 . T | continue to 3 a.m. Sund and s mowr ihat Sthe s Although the studios are located in 15 & wble COM- [ petrojt, the station is at Pontfac, eral Electric engineers| yich, 'The transmitting equipment ned ' themselves « neW|represents the best obtainable. The! to create 00-kilowatt | (owers supportin; antenna are | rst_one 1 StanCs | 200 feet high and are made of gal-| 11n t B inized steel. They weigh 22 ton orator e 11 ma There are eleven miles of copper wire ther milestone rogr in the ground system radio adeasting. Telephone wires 30 miles long con The t which in reality | nect the transmitter in Pontiac with Is a 3 . is now plan-| the main studio in Detroit. ning isades. As it stands|also s a studio In the station plant toda - 50-kil ansmitter is{at Pontiac for use in emergenc far 9 ¥ duct. It is| WJR will use the 517-meter wave. o be tried out unde all conditions | Its power is rated at 5,000 watts. and all circumstances at varying sea i, 1 in conj r‘!r;.\ ;‘\vl‘"l!‘\‘\rml“"";l Musical Blue Prints at KFI od mnd its abil-| KFI engineers have evolved a unique . When it has|chart by which the various instru- | its tests it will give way | Ments in orchestras and instrumental 100-kilowatt experimenter and | ensembles may be placed in proper comparison made of the results of | Félation to the microphone. Therefore e ey of Lower: when an orchestra arrives in the E studio the announcer knows just e where to place the string section and the percussion truments. Since the | SELECTIVE ANTENNA USED ! piano is stationary, the microphone is | placed so as to pick up its music to FIRST TIME IS SUCCESS | V¢t advantage and the remaining in- struments are built upon this arran, 5 At ment & 2 ® ¥ {i _| The cellos are placed nearest the Hailed as Revolutionizing Re-|,iorophone, followed by the violins broadeasting After Test by Sta- |violas and’the double bass instru- > ments. The wind instruments are tions KDKA and KFKA. placed just opposite the strings; thos in the ‘treble clef at the rear of the | the Associated Press studio, as the brilliance of ‘flutes and | PITTSBURGH, August $.—Termed experts as revolutionizing the re deasting of radio pre 15, a spe Sl || RADIO REPAIRING the \\]l 5 < ‘ ! z Expert and Conscientious Work fanufacturing Co. Invented by Frank onrad, assistant chief engineer of GRIMM the Westinghouse Co.. the antenna is || r, 10089 1323 Vermont Ave. designed to pick up or nals from a certain direction, elimi nating interference from the booster statlon, a great source of intermixing heretofore, ac rding to radio engi: neers, A speclal antenna was operajed at < Hastings, Neb. Short wave- arried a musical program from KDKA, Pittsburgh to the West. ern station. Here it was intercepted on the special antenna and there am-i plified and put on the alr again at the | same frequency or wave length. ! The antena, said H. P. 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