Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1925, Page 37

RADIO GOSSIP AND NEWS The Signal Corps of the United Etates Army has taken steps to enlist the interests, if not the actual per- sons, of about 3,000 of the 15,000 smateur radio operators of the country, who, through the activities of thelr organization, the American Radio Relay League, already have : natfonal. network covering practically the entire Nation The Slgnal Corps desires the aid of these amateurs so as to secure ad- ditional communication channels throughout the continent which could be used in national emergencies and for the communication of the National Guard, reserve and civil units of the Army. It also is held extremely de- sirable to have a reserve of young operators trained as to the Army method and system operation, so that in the event of war or when ex- perfenced radio signal men are needed they will be available. Recently a close affiliation between the Army Signal Corps and the ama- teurs was effected. The future activi- ties of the league will be in close co- operation with the Signal Corps. Al- ready In each of the nine Army corps areas an amateur radio net is being organized, in addition to a divistonal net for each of the organized reserve divisions. Each State National Guard will also organize a radio system in co-operation with the amateurs resid: ing therein. All these systems will be connected into a Nation-wide net through a headquarters station at ®ort Monmouth, N. J., formerly Camp Alfred Vail, the signal school. The control station will he % Amateurs are asked to communicate with the league if they desire to en- roll in this new and practical auxiliary radlo service. Another method of get- ting in touch with the authorities s to ‘ommunicate with the corps signal officer of your own area. These corps neadqu. s are loca in Boston, New York, Baltimore, 2 bus, Chicago, Omak and Presidio, Calif. £ :he met will be known as Army ama. teur radio stations, the owners and enlisted as special re- Canadian “Ham” Gets Award. The first award for improvements in the reception of pictures by radio, Some time rancis Jen- kins, offered s ageregat- ing $175 every two months to ama- teurs and fans who offered practical suggestions as to improvements in the transmission and reception of teur radio stretched out until it was ablo to carry on reliable communica- tion across the continent and the oceans, the need became apparent for some organized group to foster this splrit of radio friendship. A group of ague members, in almost nightly communication with each other, formed the charter membershlp and estab- lished the rule that each other league member who carried on a successful half-hour or more conversation with some member of “the Rag Chewers’ Club” might also become i member of the club. So popular did the organization be- come that in the few monthe of its existence it has attained a total mem- bership of over 5,700 and recommen- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, total value being $288,664. Canads was second with imports of American- made equipment agsregating $76,843, and Gyeat Britain, until recently not willingly admitting our goods, took $49.401 worth of equipment. Twenty-six other countries took American_equipment to_the amount of more than §1,000 each during the month of July Navy Operators Commended. The naval radio men at the Soap- stone Point, Alaska, radio compass master of ship Canada, which was operating with the Argentine world flight last July. This vessel was laboring under great difficulties, having had her standard compass smashed by heavy seas and her log washed away, when she called the Soapstone radio sta- Furthermore, she | i | IOWAN MAKES RECORD FOR SHORT RADIO WAVE Operates on 1.3 Meters — Cuts Length to 20 Inches in Labora- tory Experiment. Special Diepateh to The Star. TOWA CITY, Iowa., October 9.- wave length of but He also has successfully ope shortest wave length that is for an amateur. Using laboratory methods, Mr. Salls- bury produced a wave 74 centimeters, D. ¢, OCTOBER 1, 1925—PART 1. DISCOVERY OF HAWAII| CELEBRATION IN VIEW Tentative Plans for Observance of ! 150th Anniversary Submitted | Historical Society. H A i one-four-hun- station, have been commended by the [dreth the length that used by the the Argentine conveyor|large broadcasting stations has been produced by Winfred W. Salisbury of Towa City, working with the radio department of the University of Iowa. ed the corded Correspondence of the Associated Press. HONOLULU, September 18.—Tenta- | tive plans for an elaborate observation in 1928 of the one hundred and fittieth anniver: of the discovery of Ha- wall by Capt. James Cook, the Eng- lish_navigator, have been submitted to Bruce Cartwright, president of the Hawalian Historical Soclety, by Al- bert P. Taylor, librarian of the terri- torfal archives: dations for new members are arriving daily at the league headquarters. There are members in every State in the United States and every prov-{in tion for a bearing. was at an unknown distance from the rocky shore and navigating slowly a bad fos. or approximately 29 inches in length. The wave used by WSUI, University of lowa station, is 484 meters in length, or about one-third of a mile. ‘The proposed program would include a visit to the islands by an interna- - tional fleet of warships and the mint- n ince in Canada, but the membership that gives the greatest cording to club members which is gradually appearing in coun- tries beyond the ses. Six countries in Europe and Asia are already rep- resented. A well developed effort is on foot in many other nations where there are league members to enlarge the foreign membership of the “club” by carrying on trans- ocanic conversations. Seidel Radio Feature. The second of the series of At- water Kent radio programs tonight will bring _before the _microphone Seidel, famous Russian vio- He will open his recital with orite selection, “Chaconne,” by . accompanied on the organ by ir Loesser. Other numbers on N n include the ndfum and gro of Pugnani, th et mu- sie” from “Rosamunde” of Schubert and Beethoven's “Rondino” as adapt- ed by Kreisler. Mr. Seidel's recital will be broad- cast by a chain of 12 statlons, in cluding WCAP. Seldel’s pro- Radio Exports Increase. Radio experts for August, amount- ing to $844,379, bring the total for the eight months to $5,566,284, nearly three millions more than in-the same period last year. The average month- Iy radio export figure is $894,535, far above last year’s average. Calculating and thls average monthly basis, the annual exports of radio apparatus in 1925 will be in excess of $8,334,000, a new record. Japan took the largest orders for writing and pictures via radio. A prize amounting to $50 has been awarded to the Canadian amateur by the judges. . Shadick’s suggestion was to use & blank sheet of paper on the record- Ing or receiving cvlinder of the radio apparatus, around which he proposed to wrap a sheet of ordinary carbon paper. The movements of a metal stylys over this sheet of carbon paper would reproduce the writing or draw- ing transmitted from the sending set. This plan will probably supercede the pen and ink method, which is messy at best. ’ The other two awards have not as vet been announced Radio Promotes Friendships. As an {llustration of the friendships that are dcveloped through the ama- teur radio telegraphic comnunication, officers at the American Radio Rel Yeague headquarters in Hartford, Conn., point to the rapid growth of an honorary group of league mem- bers, known as “the Rag Chewers’ Club” which is devoted to the pro-| motion of friendly conversations by amateur radio. | In the last few vears, when ama- | our radio equipment during July, the narnNER Thirteen radio bearings, transmit- ted to the vessel between 8 a.m. and § p.m., guided her through the fog into Cross Sound. Once safely in, the skipper of the Canada radloed his thanks to the radiomen at Soap- stone Point, telling Chiet Radio Man W. E. Reilly, in charge, that it was solely through their gid and his radio compass that he made the dangerous passage. This successful radio-compass navi- gation in very dangerous waters, the Navy points out, is an example of the great value of the radio bearings given ships by the naval compass service. Foreign Fans Compl There is growlng complaint about interference between various Buro- peans stations, says a report to the Department of Commerce from Stock- holm. In view of the interference experienced in Sweden, experiments are now being conducted there with wave lengths differing from those on which stations normally operate, with a view to eliminating some of the causes for complaint. It was report- ed that the wave lengths of some of the Swedish stations will probably be changed in the near future in an attempt to minimize interference. Seoumeel s B KHQ, one of the first broadcasters in Seattle, Wash., bas applied for per- mission to transfer its base to Spokane and to increased power. 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Menzel ot the physics department, are his efforts length that sults at night. under Carl Menzer, University to find an intermediate will be advantageous for both. . o = WGY has been authorized to increase watts. Tt will be recalled that th tion also broadcasts on 50 kilowatts Saturday and Sunda WSM, the new station at 1,000 watt. meters. its wave length is WGHP, a new class B station, has It is a transfer from owned b George H. Phelps of Detroit, is licens been authorized. ass This station, ed to transmit on 1,500 watts, with wave length of 2 quency of 1,110 kilocycle: experimental work Mr. Salisbury has produced a wave length of 1.3 meters, or a little with this he has short of the General Electric Co. its regular broadcasting power to 4,000 ashville, Tenn., will open on October 5 with 0 meters and a fre- ing of an American coin in commem- oration of the discovery of the archi- pelago which was named the Sund- wich Islands after Capt. Cook's pa- tron, the Earl of Sandwich. Taylor pointed out that the cele- bration would have an almost univer- sal Interest in view of the fact that so many nations played a part in the building up of the islands, thelr civ- tlization, industry and commerce, fol- lowing the discovery. These he listed as Great Britain, the United States, Russla, France and Spain. Denmark and Sweden also became friendly with the Kingdom of Hawail and probably would be included in the celebration. Taylor suggested that the histori- cal soclety bring the proposals to_the tention of Gov. Wallace R. Far. rington and request that he ask the State Depurtment to estend formal invitations to the varfous governments 10 send representatives and men-of- war to the islands during the cele- bration. During the visit the vessels might visit Kea v. 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