Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1926, Page 44

John Smith and His Radio BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL Car owners throughout the world have fellowed John Smith in his daily motoring—and have benefited thereby. He also is a vadio fan, and is willing that his fellow fans should be amused and profit by his evening experiences. Smith has a facudy for “finding out things,” so it will pay radio devotees to follow him §n The Sunday Star each week. 54.—~Where the Wear His experience with automo taught Smith that every me(-e‘ut echanism is subject tp wear. Nat- urally, as time wore on he began to speculate as to when his radio set would start to wear out “The rate of wear on the set de pends upon your ability to know how that r 1s and your willingnes 10 delay or ofi their effect through care,” I told him, ‘It is more impor tant to know .re ihe wear begin: than to know when the set will bc y ik hauy. he diads, the oppor was lent for poiniing ou m the various waws in which s en as we star d the on he was twirling the dials R Sationy 1o whicHERe ¥ nt to reyurn. It vy many auto shift int) khh:h cear from second when they . kuow fhat in & minute they will have to chift into neutral and start all over . Stk h reminded nu mobile driv Amount of Wear. you could lubricate the shafl variable conde X twisting and twirling wou s, howeve anount of wei - in lowered condenser ency e ind here's another point you aven't considered: You are accus- ned'to setting the dials when you i something you are enjoying, go- away and leaving the set to it- Can’t you see that if the oon- denser shafts become too loose and 00 free they will not stay firmly in position. The jarring of the house be sufficient to detune the sets tage of the game you will around the set all the time during reception in order to keep it tuned to the desired station. “One of the things that is bound to shorten the life of your set is this frail table on which you have it. Tvery time you plug in the whole sot swings a jittle. I've warned you about this before, but only in con- nection with the tubes. You ought o know by now that it doesn’t do the delicate filaments of the tubes any good to be jarred, and if you want to defer the time when your get will be troublesome, you will take mny word for it that this jarring is Iad for everything else on’ the set. To prove it I showed him the loose ground connection on the back of the tot, Inside the box there was alsc 8 soldered connection that did not Jook any too strong. On the whole the soldering looked to be of a very nigh order. Smith Has God Set. for Smith, his set is . well designed The ondenser s ts are designed to al- Jow looseness to be taken up. There is ample room for the installation of new transformers. The connections for holding the prongs of the tube are strong and can be bent for tighter contact without danger of breaking. But service work on any mechanism entails a certain amount of unavold- able damage. It always is better not voubles start 0 at of the wear on your set will come from causes you least expect, T added. “Did you ever stop to real- yze that every time you raise the top ©of the set to look inside you are help- ing it along the road to old age? When you lift the cover you breathe divectly upon the condenser plates. You avoid dampness and yet you often open the hood to give the set a good e of it. O na of the things you should avold is the opposite extreme. Too little dampness s just as bad for the set as too much. If the set is allowed to become too dry the case will warp. This can cause more trouble than you think. Just how much dry heat a set will stand depends largely upon the seasoning of the wood used in its case, “I speak of this because one of the rules of radlo involves this risk of excessive drying out of the set's dio operators are told to Fortunately well buiit case. b Radiolas, ELECTRICA OPE! ! & o WM. P. BOYER CO. 812 13th St. M. 842 RADIO SERVICE - —of all kinds. By experienced men of, and recommended by, the Loomis Radio College. Prompt on calls and aerials service. If we don't help your set—no charges. . DEPARTMENTAL RAD! 1736_Penna. Av Product of nearly 40 years’ Experience Hear this creation of the orig- inators and oldest makers of loud speaking devices—Al- fred Graham & Co., England. Ite clear, life-like tone, its supreme sensitivity and its broad musical rangewillreveal to you the reasons for the Amplion’s world-wide popu- larity and leadership in sales. Be sure that your Amplion has the serial number onit. Otherwise the guarantee vold. Six model withcordsandpanel plowy $12up. Write mplion Pedi- Phonograph Units keep the ground conmection as short s possible and the radiator is favored 4s a ground. Im comsequence, most swets are of neckssly too near the rg0st serious cause of dry heat. It s a good plan to use a radiator umidifier.” "Yhe final point wemt back fo the peration of the set. There was mith twisting the rheostats back and rih when such activity wasn't at all mecessary. Just to show him . excessive use of these parts was wloing I raised the top of the st and showed him the cuts that were being made in the wiring of these units. The same wear Is nd in potentiometers when ex- A used. Wheze the wear begins is largely where the observation is dulled,” I summed up the situation. Thanks for sharpening mine,” mith replied, pulling out the plug and waiding with the set inoperative instead o\’ letting the tubes burn and wear out, when the announcer asked us io stand by for five minuges. Next Week, No. 55t Making the Station Test. % (Copyright by the Ullman Feature Servite.) ITALIAM DEBT DEBATE. House Members to Discuss Pact in Ridlo Series. The Italian debt segtlement, one of the most controversial issues in the present Congress, is to be the subject of a joint Democratio-Republican ra- dio discussion, to be presented through stations WRC, Washington, and WJZ, New York, next Saturday night. The speakers will be Representatives Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, Republi- can, and Eugege Black of Texas, Democrat. The discussiort will be one of a series of Congressional debates being broadcast by the two Radio Corpora- tien of America stations in radio's first Congressional forum. The two addresses will be deltvered in “the studios of station WR(, and will be directed solely to the radio audience. WRC Broadcasts Farm Programs. The farm radio programs, arranged by the Department of Agriculture, have been added to the dally features broadcast by Station WRC. The farm imformation, under the heading “Fifty Farm Flashes,” together with the “‘Flousekeepers’ Half Hours,” are be- ing broadcast every day except Satur- day and Sunday, from noon to 12.30 p.m. D University Teacher to Speak. Katherine Dolhear of the New Rochelle public schools, and for two Summers a teacher at the University of Maryland, will speak over station WEAF Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock on the American Tree Asso- ciation’s celebration of the semicen- tennial of forestry. Two Operas Scheduled. The WBAL Opera Co., under the direction of George M. Castelle, will broadcast Mascagnf’s “Cavalleria Rusticana,” March 9, from 10 to 11 pm. The station has planned to broadcast one opera a month. The econd one will be Leon Cavallo’s ‘Il Pagliacel.” According to the latest public sta- tistics, about 1,200,000 radio receiving sets, for which regular license fees are paid, are in operation within Ger- man; OPEN EVERY EVENING TUBES A1 99c L ek — R -] CUTLER-HAMMER RHEOSTATS and POTENTIOMETERS . < ZUROM O 100 Volts, in Mahogany Case .. $9.75 Crosley Pup T s S under the direct| Bat monthe: "1 mon 1y, your tubes i "the wondertul Fost. reactivator, Reg. $5.00 PARAGON AUDIO TRANSFORMER $1.49 EDISON ELEMENT STORAGE ‘B’ BATTERY . $18.95 SENATE ASKS REPORT ON USE OF PATENT Seeks Data on Annual Value of Squier Wired-Wireless Inven- tions to A. T. & T. Co. The Senate passed recently an in- teresting resolution directing the Sec- retary of Commerce to investigate the use of the Squler wired-wireless pat- ents by the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and make a report on the annual value of these patents to the company and the reduction in public rates, if any, due to the free use of the wired-wireless patents. Senate resolution 149, introduced by Senator Walsh, reviews the history of wired-wireless investigation begun in 1910 by Maj. Gen. George O. Squire, U. 8. A., retired, then a major in the Signal Corps, under an appropri- ation of $30,000 made by Congress. His subsequent investigations showed that multiplex telegraphy and tele- phony over wires could be accomplish- ed by the application of radio to wires in the method commonly known “wired wireless.” Patents Nos, 950356- 7-8-9, taken out by Maj. Squier in 1911, provided for their use by the Government of the United States and its citizens without the payment of royalties, These patents are now used by the Bell Telephone system free, it was stated, a court having held that as the patents were public property the inventor was not entitled to any com- pensation therefor. Now the Secretary of Commerce is directed to make a full report to the Senate to the extent to which the system is used by the American Tele- phone and Telegraph Co. in govern- mental and public service, the annual value of such use and the reductions made in rates, if any. BRSPS Broadcasting stations are now in wegular operation in the following German cities: Berlin, Breslau, Frank- fort-on-Main, Hamburg, Koenigsberg, Leipzig, Munich, Muenster and Stutt- gart, states a report to the Depart- ment of Commerce from Trade Com- missioner Pilger, Berlin. Station WRAK, Economy Light Co., at Escanaba, Mich., is still on the air, despite a report that it had heen deleted. This 100-watt station operates on 256.3 meters or 1,120 kilocycles, WHK at Cleveland has applied for | increased power to 1,000 watts. ? PEP UP YOUR TUBES - (We test them free) ~ Distance stations are rolling in. dards reports Febraary and, March your set isn’t performing may need pepping up 1 TUBE | 3 TUBES 35¢ $1 If your tubes fail to respond to our treatment we make no charge You risk nothing. We guarantee to make tubes llke new or you <~thine, 0—50 VOLTMETERS .. Battery Cables 5 colored leads with clips 49c ARMY BAND TO DUPLICATE. Second Concert of Music Produced by March Kings. Having serenaded the radio audl- ence of the United States in a half hour with the March Kings of Amer- ica, the United States Army Band will present a second concert intro- ducing the representative marches of the March Kings of the World to be broadcast March 18 by Stations WRC, at Washington, and WJZ, New York. The arrangement of the marches has been made by Capt. William J. Stannard, leader of the Army Band, and the concert will be played by the full band in the studios of Station WRC. The concert will be relayed to New York for simultaneous broad- casting from the superpowered trans- mitter of WJZ at Bound Brook, N. J. WATCHED BY DAWES. Old-Time Fiddlers Interest Vice President. Vice President Charles G. Dawes was one of the most interested spec- tators of a fiddling bee broadcast re- cently from the studios of Station WRC. For the first half hour of the ‘“bee” the Vice President suggested the request numbers be played by the fiddlers and applauded the efforts of the old-time musicians, Gen. Dawes’ visit to the WRC stu- dio was made in connection with the ceremony broadcast from Washington that officially opened an Elks' carni- val in Honolulu. A telegraph key especially installed in the studio_ for the occasion was pressed by the Vice President, releasing a signal that flashed on the lights in the Honolulu auditorium and officially opened the celebration in that city. A running story of the event was broadcast by WRC. Shannon, Caldwell & Co., Inc. Radio Auction Within Our Sal.srooms 304 Tenth St. N.W. 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