Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1928, Page 43

. THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, QUARTERLY RADIO SALES BLANKETING HELD. e by MAJOR COMPLAINT "= w2 7 Busine: ) A survey made by the Department | Insertion| of Commerce shows that 6.766 radio dealers in the United States did $20.- | 508,666 worth of business, or $3,030 | each, during the third quarter of this | | | | Inspectors Advise of Small Condenser to /' Sharpen Tuning. yxhr Associated Press. . (@ Blanketing by nearby broadcasting | yeal | * The dealers who replied to the ques- | tionnaire represented 21.4 per cent of | | the 31,573 queried, an increase of 3.6 | per cent in those answering, as com- | { pared with the preceding quarter. | These dealers sold 23599 battery sets | end almost 100,000 electric sets during D. C., DECEMBER 16, {is indicated in the annual report to 1928—PART 1. GROWTH OF RADID SHOWN IN REPORT Review Presented to Con- gress Tells of Problems Before Commission. By the Assoclated Press. The tremendous development of radio | since no matter what action may be taken by countries in other continents all the channels in this band may, gen- erally speaking, be used on this conti- nent. The commission has deemed it advisable, therefore, not to act hurried- 1y in this fleld " Storm of Protests. Another issue which has not been definitely decided and upon which Con- gress may make recommendations at the short session is the regulation of chain broadcasting. very drastic effect of the order restrict- 43 ing chain broadcdsting soon ' became apparent from the storm of protest from the listening public and the commission: deemed it wise to postpone the effective late of the order to February 1 in T to give it an opportunity fo make fur- ther investigatin to avoid Injustice to listeners.” & A Cleveland's Son to Speak. Richard F. Cleveland, only son of Grover Cleveland, former President, will On this point, the report says: “The |[make a 15-minute talk over WBAL, Baltimore, Thursday, afternoon. e[ ole——[a[—Ts| RESHMA Stations of the reception of distant Programs has been one of the major eomplaints of listeners under the re- allocation To aid radio fans who are having difficulty with receivers that tune July, August and September. | There were 32,224 battery sets in the | hands of the dealers on October 1, and 58,262 electric sets. The dealers had on hand 53,180 speakers of the mag- | netic type and 14,086 of the dynamic | N | Congress of the Federal Radio Commis- I YOUR ULT'MATE RADIO “The multiple phases of the commis- | SEVEN TUBE ELECTRIC sfon’s activities in supervising broad- IN COLONIAL CABINET casting, together with the legal and technical problems, are outlined in a | WITH - ene Kilgore IO’:::J«’I&md1 , CGalif. broadly, inspectors of the radio di- Vision of the Department of Commerce have offered suggestions designed to eliminate, at small cost, some of the jinterference. One suggestion is the insertion of 2 small fixed condenser in series with the antenna lead-in and receiver. Its capacity is .00005 or larger. This re duces volume to some extent, but i sharpens the tuning of the antenna cireuit ‘Where a receiver is located near the tlocal station it may be found neces- sary to change the direction of the antenna to a position at right angles | to the antenna of the broadcaster. If the direction of the station antenna is north and south the receiving antenna for the least interference should run east and west The series condenser can be cut out of the antenna lead on stations where the local broadcaster does not interfere by short-circuiting with a small knife switch. A wave-trap can sometimes be used to advantage. Receivers having two antenna bind- ing posts. one marked “long” and the other “short.” should be tried with the antenna lead alternately on each to determine which is the more satisfac- tory for receiving distance. Shortening the antenna may help somewhat. Inserting a fixed condenser, however, between the antenna lead and the receiver has the same effect. v BANKER IS ARDENT &Wemmw, e Atired . RADIO SUPPORTER| Henry B. Joy Is Licensed as Ad- vanced Experimenter by the Government. By the Associated Press. DETROIT.—Henry B. Joy, banker, automobile manufacturer, soldier and ardent supporter of good roads, is an enthusiastic radio amateur. Joy, who started life as a $15 a ‘week clerk, brought the Packard Motor | Car Co. to Detroit in the infant days of the automobile industry, and sold Selfridge Field, the Army air base near Mount Clemens, to the Government, spends many evenings in his labortory talking with amateurs throughout the United States and foreign lands. Mr. Joy has been licensed as an advanced experimenter by the Govern- \ type.” There were 295484 A-C tubes |in dealers’ hands October 1. AGINEERS ADVSE * MORE CHANNELS | Only Repeal of Davis Amend- ; ment Will Help Emergency, Report Says. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 15—Further | | increase in the number of clear chan- [ nels, with the use of maximum power |on such channels, is urged in a review |of the broadcast reallocation by radio | engineers. Other recommendations are made by ihe engineers who comprise the com- mittee on broadcast allocation of the | radio"division of the National Electrical | Manufacturers’ . Association. Members of this committee are C. W. Horn, Julius | Goldsmith, | Ray H. Manson, Louis B. F. Raycroft and Edgar H. Fel! A summary of the report, made pub- lic tonight by the association, stated: “While the committee commends the Radio Commission for having reduced the number of stations broadcasting simultaneously with the effect of lessen- ing interference, it feels that the com-| mission has failed to accomplish the prime purpose for which it was organ- ized—the reduction of the number of stations licensed. Standard Is Urged. “The commission is urged to adopt a | standard basis for rating of broadcast- ing stations for the purpose of deciding | the relative service of two or more sta- | tions. “The committee reiterates its support of the engineers’ plan of broadcast al- location which calis for 50 cleared chan- nels, and originally 60. The adoption of 40 cleared channels is a step in the right direction, but does not go far enough. “Only repeal of the Davis amendment ment and is ever experimenting. He has a station on his private yacht as| well as at his Summer home at Watch | Hill, R. I, and his town home at Grosse | Pointe Farms, Detroit suburb. | Radio has been his hobby singe his | retirement from active business. y _Born in Detroit November 23, 1864, | Mr. Joy was educated at the Michigan Military Academy, Phillips Academy, at Andover, Mass., where he was graduated in 1883, and at Yale, Sheflield Scientific School. Aside from his early business career in the offices of the Peninsular Car Co. in Detroit, he also was actively identified with mining operations in Utah in 1887 to 1889. Mr. Joy served In the Navy in the Spanish-American War, and as a cap- tain enlisted in the Signal Corps during the World War, being mustered out with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1919. He was active in the work of +the Lincoln Association and | one zone or another. ‘condemns any unwarranted restriction will be helpful in the present emer- gency. Modifying zone boundaries and the number of zones, no matter how skillfully done, cannot be a fair basis for equalization because any zoning plan is certain to discriminate against Advises High Power. “Maximum power should be used on all cleared channels so that the great- est number of listeners may be served. “Having as an infallible barometer of broadecasting popularity the sale of re- ceivers in all territories, the committes of chain programs. “The committee is opposed to the publicity given by the commission to experiments in station synchronization in advance of the time that the prac- tical problems of such synchronization are solved.” STATION SENDS LATIN. alveston, Tex. 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