Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1925, Page 30

80 NEW PLAN DEVISED FOR ROOF AERIALS Antennae in Orderly Rows Give Better Reception and Mar Skyline Less. ' CARL H. BUTMAN. crossed webs of unsightly | especially big apartment where each tenant seems try- Cris: aerials, houses, ing to outdo his neighhor, essary and out of date, the new radio speciali tion man In nearly every large city the s line is made hideous by the multi tudinous antennae, running at ever conceivable angle, their poles painting -, and their owners of interference poor reception. Some apartment look us if a convention of ‘men was gathered atop theiv poles held at di- vergent their lines tangled, and their res fishing poor in- deed. In such communities the radio fishing is indeed poor. Recently 1. met in Washington a Young radio engineer who is perhaps going to be the lzaak \Walton or at least the mentor of these acrial fisher is 1. L. Hardisty. Where he stalled his standard, systematic stem of group aerials in communi- ties thick with fans reception greatly improved and the housetops are freed from unsightliness on re unnec- cording to , the installa- Uses Orderly Rows. Mis plan is simple, Inexpensive, practical and not yet patented. When an apartment lis on him clean up his roof, Mr. Hardisty meas- ures {t up, counts or ascertains the | serials needed. buys u few heavy planks, several lengths of piping, some elbows and sockets, and goes (o waork Most of you can recall the equip ment instalied on the tops of apart-| ments a few years ago for the conven- fence of the tenants when drying the weekly wash. Hardisty's method is to build a framework or rack for aerials, similar to the old clothesline racks. each end of the roof., and set back a few feet from the street side, he erects two horizontal pipes about 70 feet apart. The pipes are held up stanchions braced or. guyed so that they nelther wobble or bend. They are 10 or 12 feet above the roof. The bases are fixed to heavy timbers fas tened to the roof, or built in when possible. Along the two horizontal Pipes he attaches the indlvidual aerials about 4 feet hough this distance may be more | zerials are desired re all parallel, but the lengths may. of course, be varied when placing the in- sulators. From the nearer end of the serial the leads go down to the apart ments below, first heing attached to insulated brackets to keep them from touching gutters or cornices. Forty on Single Roof. He varies his methods to fit a par ticular type of roof. In the several buildings so equipped great satisfac- tion is reported from the tenants and owners. One apartment provides aerfals for 40 families, all of whom express delight. Even interference from radiating regenrative sets is no | 8:00—New York LONG RANGE RAD SUNDAY, DAY STAR, WASHI 10 ENTERTAINMENT SEPTEMBER 27, 1925 Programs of Distant Stations Scheduled for Eastern &tandard Time 8 TO Children's program: ® TO N. Y.: Watchtower Orch Bible lecture 9:00—-Rossville, tenor’ 9:30—Cincinnati - Book Concern 9:45—Philadelphia: Holy 'l'nm(y “Charch T 10:00—Yew Yo New Yo 10:80—Atlunty 10:45 copal Sel Springfield: quartet; Chureh of the organ 11:00—Det U's Episcopal "Church of the (¢ L Emple Churcl sbyterian Church 12 NOON Springs: Central Methodist Chu: o Lentpal Chure joes Minngapolis minister Dex Moines: University Coicago 1:2:00—Hot Chiy 110 Baptist Church sarvic Seadns Hotel Trio: Church 2 Sunday radio Bethany —Denver: First —Atlantic Uty Ventnor M. E New K forim Philadeiphia: 2 10 2:00—Davenport New York: Adeiphians L Qui Detroit: Detroil News Orchestra 3 TO udio reci chime conce Hrmn_ Sing” 3:00—C 3 Clocinnati New York New York ew York New York Cleveland Concerts and Sermonet “Sunday Adelphians Ladi Warner's Theater prog; Miles Kasterndieck. Concert orchestra « 10 Arion Male Chorus Federation of Churches: “Value of Difficulties” Concert program City: Vocal and Episeopal Church ew York ew York New York Chicago —Atlantic James 30—Kansas City Y 5:00—Base ball_scores % Kaigas Oy Newman, heaters” orogram Studio concert Vocal and ‘insiruman fonal Radio Chureh: recital Minneapolis: House of Hope Presby ¢ TO Royal,’ 6.00—Philadeiphia ladelpbia: isas ity quartet New' York Philadelphia Benjamin Iiotel Pennaylvania Co Roerer's’ Homers Organ recital 52 T TO 7.00—New_York: Ernie Golden's Hotel Me. Vail and his String Engemble . sland: Park Theater Orchestra Hotel Organ recital from First Yok Murical “Capitol Gang.’ and WCAE, from . 7:30—Philadelpha: Arch Streei " Preshyter caxo: Orean recital: Little Brow 7:45—Pittsburwh: Davenport: Sport news —Atlantic City Reminixcenscs of a Reporter’ tro: quartet ady: Yom Kippur service Cleveland” Xational Safely Congress. FHotel Cleveland . New York: Vocal and instru Clover Gardens Orchestra Cineinnati: Concert program: &:15—New York: Musical program 83501 Moines: Recse-Hughes' o TO 9:00—New Y Musical program {rom The New York Los Angeles: Leighton's Arcade Orc Concert Orchestra . Chicago: Raloh Williams and his Rail vocal and instrumental artists Atlanta: Church - services New York: Yocal soloi Oincinnati; Concert orchestra: Schenectads : “Studio_program Bernstein violi Springfield: Organ recital; vocal golos . 4 We: TR R Choral Singers: W-h‘hlu\n‘rws Roseville, N String Quariet Davenport: Church services Atlantic City: Seaside Hotel Trio Anantic comic stories: Sunday scuool by "editorial Christ musical program Churen services - Unicle Walt reads the funnies to children. Sunday School Paimer Little, Symphony Or " e Quartet: (nmummul Pantag Franklin Hotel Concert international Sunday school Pennsylvania Concert 'Orchestra . Orchestra” Voral ‘and instrumental ‘soloista: City: Vessella's Concert Band 0 AM. Statione. mus: Wiz 10 AM.. estra; Fred Twaroschk b Methodis taff ‘of Meihodis s9a1 ser 5 : & 1AM, | Scientist, services. . 204 | h(_ urch | services. A 204 o1 prokram & 3 bzl 33! h o services TO 1 P.M. reh pervices an Church services. 2 P es sermon trum Clielse: 3 P estra: solos artet 4P tats Dpiamst ram pianisi 5 P mm recital” trom St s s WPG WDAF orm KDKA 3 WDAF RYW 3 m{a Libert; tai " soloists’ undenomi terian services. WCCo T PeM. WLIT WCAU radio, - WDAF WMCA Woo Orchestra. oncert Orchestra Tesson 8 P Alpin Orchestra; Olcott, Baptist Church: organ: and " ‘the PWWS, 1an’ Chiurch’ services o Church in the Valé - Bowes R mugical program WJ7 reception’ &inhér ‘from 10 P Brookiyn Mark Strand Bernatein T: hestra: Art Hickman's nbo Gardens Orchestra: Trio * n solos .. | rom crystal to tube sets recently, it is | reported. [ paratus were dropped at the begin- | ments with the retailers to restrict the i reports. tand will consist { Arnold MILLION SETS IN BRITAIN. Government License Records Show Tube Outfits Predominate. In Great Britain the number of people who have taken out radio re- celving licenses has now passed 1,000,- 000. Thousands of them have gone The import restrictions on radio ap- ning of the year, but British manu- ! facturers have entered into arrange- trade to radio goods of British make. Local Radio Entertainment Sunday, September 27, 1925 A—Naval Radio_Sttation, Va. (334.5 Meters). a.m. and 10:34 p.m.—Weather Radio, 10 Potomac Tele- Meters). ervice from Calvary hurch. Dr. James 8. chaplain of the House of wiil deliver the ser- WCAP—Chesapeake phone Co, (468 1 am Methodist Montgome: Representatives, mon. 4 p.m.. « Service held at the Peace Washington Cathedral. Rt Freemaun, Bishop of the se of Washington, will r the sermon. 15 p.m.—Musical program ward Bowes and the ng” direct from the Capi- tol Theater, New York City. The first part of the program will be taken direct from the stage of the theater of music by the fea- tured artists and the Capitol Grand Orchestra. The second part of the program will consist of a special pres. entation by Mau) instrumental artists direct from the in the To WEAF, WJAR, WwJ by May. “Capitol G e Bowes of vocal and | 9:15 to 10:30 pan—Wardman Park Hotel Little Symphony Orchestra. Early Program Monday. 45 to 745 a.m.—“Tower Ifealth Exercises” from Metropolitan Tower, ew York City. | WRC—Radio Corporation of Ame 1468.5 Meters). a. Silent Early Program Monday. a.m.—~Women's hour, from WJZ, New York. 12 noon—Organ recltal from Congregational Church. 1 p.m.—Shoreham Hotel Orchestra. BERLIN TO HEAR WORK OF NEW YORK COMPOSER Maurice Arnold's String First Quartet Composition Also Accepted in Amsterdam. iated Press BERLIN, September Maurice a New York composer and # pupil of Anton Dvors 1as been hon mml by having his “String Quartet | in ' accepted for production this Winter by the Issay Barmas Quartet In Berlin nd the Zimmermann Quar- tet in Amsterdam. His violin concerto also produced by Fritz Kerkhoft sterdam. The quartet the Asso 6 is to be in Am- abounds in American broadcast | | | { i | | | NGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 217, EVERETT ST Young Washington tenor and popular radio group of sa third of a series of symphony con- | certs by the Wardman Park Little tonl S After sizes and likes of enc countr Sunday 1tst Many of the important stations now | and for to casting nothing but or 1925—PART 1. PRESENT TRACTION SURVEY WEDNESDAY Completed Report Will Be For- mally Turned in to Utili- .ies Body. Observatory Clocks Refute as Slander Inaccuracy Thought Revealed by Radio One of the chief developments of radio during the past five years has been the sending of extremely curate time signals from a large num ber of stations all over the world. At u limited number of these sta tions—Greenwich, England; Paris, Berlin, Arlington and others—the radio time sig: are contre ed more or less directly by independent deter- minations of the exact time made by watching the stars. The larger sta tions vowerful enough, further- more, %o that the time signals from any one of the fundamental stations | can be picked up at the others. Thus | There may be an error of as much as two or three tenths of a second. When this error was first discov. ered, it was attributed to some fault of the apparatus or to some error in the obtaining of the exact time from the stars. Further Investigation has failed, however, to confirm tbis idea. For example, the United States Naval Observatory, which is responsible for the time obtervations and signals In the United States, has just reported the results of a two-year serles of comparisons between duplicate sets of instruments for the determination of the time. No errors of any magni- tude were found in the Instrumente. Similar tests In other countries have it h proved possible to compare | ?‘m\ ’i‘)ll'v:”,\l'hv:eflunv‘e,l It seems prob- pxactly the time signa | ablestna re exists some unsus- exactly the ttme signals from, for ex-| hected factor which ls effecting. the ample, Paris, with those from Arling- | speed of radfo transmission so that ton or from Berlin (Nauen) or else-| # Variable lag may occur between the i time of sending a time signal from S | Paris or Nauen and the receipt of " B ]x ; been ! this same ul at Washington. ound tha wree.| What may be the cause of this radio variation fs unknown. In re.| Mt I8 expected that porting the Naval Observatory results | OMcials Wil be present —wi before the American Assoclation fflr’(‘?n‘ple“"‘. Tevokiie oresented the Advancement of Science, Mr. Ham-| Gruhl. vice president and E mond suggested the possibility that| Tanaser of the North Ame: co. the Satmosphere’, (cyert ! Washington [i1: W;, Denlite of {he Noxth Jmer might va in some can 0 B e - st o, by e Vegme Wy, 48, for oX|& Junkersfeld, Col. Peter Junker o varfable smoke content et and consequent variable fonization, | feld: Maj Covell and the members o | and that this might be responsible for | the Utllities Con the variations in the time of receipt | of the cign time signals at the' Amerf tion Officials of the North American Co. of New York and of the engineering firm of Mc an & Ju make a formal prese completed report of the | poration survey to the Public ties Commission at the DI ing Wednesday morning, according to an announcement yesterday by Maj W. E. R. Covell. The survey w & Junkersfeld North Amer €0.; vestments in local lines, to determine a merger of the would be The report of the engineers consists only of facts. and must be studied by other experts before any conclusions can be drawn from it are s made by McClellan the expense of the which has in transportation what the effects of railway tems n ngly encugh, the s it do not 5 = nals | the following when_the Edwlin HARDELL, general RN RADIO’S BEST OFFERINGS TONIGHT. program Ldward Bowes itol Gang.” entertai 0w i r, who will sing a connection with the | Musical by Maj. and the “Cap- direct from Capitol Theater, New York City, WCAP and other stations, 7:20 to 9:15 nun.k Concert by the Hotel Penn sylvania Orchestra, WJZ, 7 to & o'clock mphony Orchestra, to be broadcast ight by WCAP. unday Popular Listen-in Day. of studying the their radio audi the leading broadcasters of the are leaning to the view that evening Is the popular eningin period of week. for n s Marker truc to paint traffic POST _RADIO 816 F Street N.W. 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In principle and prac- tice the method of supplying a num- ber of tenants with outdoor aerials is even better than it is in theor. ‘FHardisty says, which is interesting. view of the fact we have long thought parallel antennae in close proximity would not be satisfactory There are many refinements to this community aerial system, of course. A better installation of the roof racks can be made, if the owner desires, dur- ing the construction of the bullding, and lead-n wires can be run to apart- ments through the walls, obviating carrying them down the sides of the building. Has Spiderweb Plan. Mr. Hardisty believes the {deal method is to use a pole about 20 feet in height erected in the center of a roof, from it the separate antennae yun to racks say 12 feet high around 1he sides of the building. Distribution in this spiderweb plan is from a ring on the pole which may be a flagpole for that matter—somewhat - Phone lines are run to subs from a distribution pole. The other ends of the aerials are attached by insulators to the nearest rack, from which they are run to the apartments. The racks are substantially erected 8o the wires can be pulled and kept taut without bending the uprights. *This distribution gives each aerial an indlvidual angle, which is better than when all are parallel, and as the wires are all several degrees from each other they do not interfere. In especiall decorative jobs the racks can be co’ ered with lattice work, which, if painted and covered with vines, gives an artistic roofgarden effect. DROP SUIT OVER CHILD. Couple Who Adopted Baby Content to Retain Possession of Her. overy of $10,000 for! penses in providing by Benjamin A suit for re the care and e for a child, file Austin, employe of the Bureau Standards, and Mrs. Maragret Aus- against Lieut. 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