Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1926, Page 39

— /29 STATIONS ADD HEH WAVELENGTH | A 16 Newly Licensed Ones Crowd In on Bards Above 275, Most High Power. Twenty-nine hroadeasting stations joined in the invasion of the wave hands during the past have relect three months merce In addition, 16 new siations, li- rensed hy the department since the ourt decigion requiring the issuance permits to all applicants, have crowded themselves in with the broad- casters heretofore operating on wave lencths ahove 275 meters The net result of the invasion of the upper hands has therefore heen n increase nf 30 per cent in the num her of stations distifhuting their pro. grams on the lengths hetween 275 and B45 meters With hut a few exceptions all of the ne jumping their wave lengths or coming on the air for the first time have heen comparatively high power, using more 500 watts. Ten or more of the stations rated at atts 11000 watts and one at attracted the wave fump. 33.1 meters WRZ. at WJIAX. at Four additional stations s crowded on this wave length Roston: KQW. San Jose. York, Nehr., and K1 wa tions picked out e lenzin, formerls and ne etofore reserved Mass.. and Muecatine me e the 374.8 elicively by KTHR. Hot Ark. and KVOO, Rristaw, Okla. They ( Tere WRNY. New Vork. and KFBU, e Wyn. the former using 500 watts and the laiter 1.000 watts Iv twn stations have heen added the 3844 meter length— WAWAK. Plainfield. TIL. with 10,000 ind WAAW, Omaha, Nebr., 300 LEGION'S PARIS TRIP PLANS ANNOUNCED Fleet Corporation Assigns Levia- than and Other Steamers for Journey to 1927 Convention. Similar \ated Prose nents completed hy the Flact Corporation with n o« Micials by wh will travel ta the n Paris ard the 1nit Riates liner Leviat 1 other chips of that line were annonneed vesie an The azreement was reached at a ronference hetween President Dalton af the corporation and John 1. Wick divector of travel for the the terme. Legionnaires will « mininmm round-trip rate on iathan of § = eompaured 10 the <tandarvd minimiom rate of $265 They will pay from that figure up in accavdinee with the accommodations they rocerve cover more than i<s accommodations the tourist and cahin the ship will neively Legion vom the 1 poration the the mticipates viathan for revenne trip will he <light ater than the ernze for tha <hip over the same route at any time during the ton Sid that the agreement made practically on the < own terms as presented by The I'vecident Harding and the Pres tdent s will he availahle N for the Lezion members JOHN D.’S GRANDSON HIGH IN STUDIES DESPITE TOIL Ronsevel v the Assoriated Press IWOHAVE Conn., October o Prentice of New of John D, Rocke working as night tele ane ator at the New Haven ' earning money to pay \ through Yale, again has " the ranking t ok anton, Pa of the Yale varsity foot hall 1 awarded the Franc tarship in Yale Coll schol Combination Insurance for Ford and Chevrolet Owners {3,000 to K10.000 to cover your lahlity for mjury to men and children SLOD to cover your la- for damage to prop- < of use, etc. 0 o N7 women or loss of t £130° monthly 6 months if you are dis- and 830 to ahled f All for $35 Year | Write. prone or call. Brokers George E. Keeler nt Ridz. K Sts. N.W. i Ltin 0193 1130 Investn Cormer 15th and Te Fr aceording to the sta- | tion list of the Department of Com- | THE SUNDAY STAR. FAMOUS ARTIéT S TO BROADCAST { | of a eviinder. | tercepted by { finea itself to the surfare, but since the system Is all outside. the resist ance to the flow of the current is aur ! prisingly Alhert Spalding, violinist, and Anna Case, soprano, of the Metropolitan Opera Co. featured on the program to be hroadeast tonight by WRC and as- soclated stations. John Smith and His Radio BY FREDERICK €. RUSSELIL Car owners throuahout the world have folloired John Smith in his dailv motaring—and have benefited therchu. He also is a radio fan. and is willing that his fellow fans shoxld he amused and profit by his rrening experiences. Smith has a faculty of “finding out things.” so it il pay yadin devotees to follow him in The Sunday Star each e Smith thought a recent husiness trip (1t 1= the kind of resistance that you | was going to take him away from ra- Ao for a while. hut matters turned | ot to he quite the reverse. Passing | through a congested part of a large ! | want to minimize as much as possihl “Making & ground by short p A good way tn spoil any good antenna Jty, he Inoked from the train window | and was astonighed to nate how many | but the system as a whole. That varieties of aerials graced the house | means ground, the connections, tops. the insulations, the charact Were the variations a matter of [earth itself a1d the lead-in i chance Or did each represent some | o the antenna and its e} radinisi’s ideas of how the antenna | The re: er pipes make good system should he worked out? Smith system 1 is buried won And at there meditating an- | wide vz Heating pipes | other radin fan fell to discussing the |are not s se where lead is; matter with him. Fortunately for i for painting joints high resist : ance fo the flow of the faint eleetrie mith. the stranger happened tohean ineer connected with one of the e radio factorjes “Out of a hundred aerials, 1 haven't | 70 20 S0 60 A 0N seen one that follows the fundamental [ESCREERE 18 B G20 fEMIE an rnles for Intercepting radio waves. s 3 i kT e e sty evinl. [He awill tr¥ riew. Achiemes ant each fan nsed whatever wire hs hap pened to have and followed the lines of least resistance when erecting his wave-intercepting svstem. [ suppose it we were to look inside the houses we'd find the ground connections just hont as poorly i enrrent is created. always s a g attached 10 every move not realize that the origi of these newer and hetter asvials sim ply have tried to eliminate some o the natiral resistances which are se np i any antenna system. e R o avy | Swilth Suew fiiar (he “viin Sfiect o it S o aiethat is | Was the name given to the habit tha radio enrrent (aliernating) has of con grounded will do.” fining through which it travels and of in ereasing resistance to its flow accord Good Ground Tmportant. You wonldn't say that if you were . el o ingly. He listened intently. hetter acquainted with the principles S ! o . of the antenna system.” the other re SKINMERECHRRTGROinced. Plied. “Tt often is true that an aerial This ‘skin effect’ is very pro i< no better than zround. I have neunced in some =" the other ceen the hest aerials spoiled or re. | went on ed enovmously in efficiency just | for your antenna. the small amount of ke A poor ground was used. The current at radio frequency that is pieked up will erowd 1o the outside o the wire. This in distribution of eurrent density natur ally increases resistance. and the an 1s is that the have te travel to reach | radio en- | for its an hiel trouhle with aer lines of farce often roundahout paths in order wind. The idea that as a complete path ful energy as it would if the ‘skin principles involved “A type of the earth that is almost & non-con Aductor. This inercases resisstance, hut | pounding a of pipe into the earth is| 1t isn’t the antenna alone that counts. | grounds is hecanse they are part of a | in a rather, “I venture to sav that scarcely one | radio fan out of a thonsand gives any | is known as| new arrangement of aerials, but there | at element of mystery { This type does Al designers elf to the surface of wiresi “I0 yon string up one wive eage in irvegular tenna does not plck up as much use- | | i n A | il | tenna cirenit just hecause it touches the earth has ne hasis in fact. The conld he reduced. 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