Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1930, Page 71

" ORCHESTRAS HOLD ~ RADD INTREST Philadelphia Symphony and . Mew York Philharmonic : on Air Today. Tadio’s chief attention in the network i ! | {28y | intermission Olin Dow: the music and its com- the will describe ‘Outstanding the night broad- casts will be Atwater Kent hour, a WRC attraction, featuring Josef Hoffmann, internationally famous pianist, assisted by Nelson Eddy, beritone, and a mys- lodrama, “The Chinese gl ! 52§ Egand i i THREE FAMOUS ARTISTS TO BROADCAST THIS WEEK ’hocolateers over a . stations. \ and “Manhattan Mary,” will make her radio debut Friday night in the Josef Hof mann, internationally known center, will be the guest contralto soloist A planist, in the Atwater Kent Hour tonight over WRC and other N. B. C. stations. Annette Hanshaw, it, broadcast on Thursday nights by WMAL and & network of other Today on (Al time p.m., unless the Radio otherwise indicated.) LOCAL STATIONS. 315.6 Meters. 950 Kilocycles. 8:00a—Tone pictures. ildren's hour. 9:00a—N. B. C. 10:00 to 10:30a—Jospe Woodwind En- semble. lg:m—“_mml Oratorio Society. a3 So—lleopofihn Nights. 2:00—Moonshine and Honeysuckle. Concert. WRC 3:30—S8oul - 4:00—Religious service by Dr. 8. Parkes Oadman. ‘hour. FORMED INTO NEW CHAIN| 1 SEATTLE, Wash. (#.—The north- ‘west radio unit is making & come-back. as the Northwest Broad- nue 12:16—Birthdays. 12:30 to 1:00—Biblical drama talk by A. Whitfield Hoeny. 4:30—Musical program. 5:00—Catholic radio hour, broadcast from the Church of Immaculate | 6:00 to 6:05—The Ross Special. Early Program Tomeorrow. : program. 10:30a—Ron and Don at the Fox Thea- ter organ. 11:00a—Helpful hints to 11:20a—"“Clothes Personality,” by Kath- fi‘flvlflfld. 11:308~} hour with great com- posers. 12:00m—Auth’s Brevities. 12:10 to 1:00—Luncheon music. 2054 Meters. 11:00a to 12:30—Service of the Fourth ‘hurch. 2:16 :) :45—Patriotic Protestant vangelical Association. 7:30—Time signal. 7:31—Roland Wheeler, tenor. 7:55—8Service of First Church of Christ Scientist. 9:05—Joseph Di Meglio, tenor. 9:: artet. WMAL G’ iiooyeies. 10:00 to 11:00a—Watch Tower service. 12:30—Rebroadcast from London, talk by Sir Lane. 12:45—Canadian Grenadiers Guard Band. 0—Conclave of Nations. 0—Cathedral 7:00—Correct time, 7:01—The Golden Hour of the Little Flower, service from time. American Seaman,” by ur J. Tryer. 5—United States School of Music. 30—Kaltenborn Edits the News. 5—Quiet Hrls' Trio. 00—Toscha Seidel and Concert Or- chestra. 10:30—Around the Samovar.* 11:00—Back-home hour, from Buffalo. 8: 8:01—"“The 12: i‘fln‘. 9:00a—Opening the Morning Mail. ::aoa.—-ngu Monday g:lu‘:: Chasers. :00a—"‘Greetings,” lancy Clark. 30a—*“Wall lu"b‘! Joan Barrett. a—"“Scents and Sense,” by Caro- Iyn Cornell. 11:00a—“Frozen Salads,” by Ida Bailey Allen. 11:15a—The children’s corner. 11:30a— 1 Out-of-Town Stations. Programs prepared by the Associated Press. Scheduled for Eastern Standard time. (Meters on left of call letters, kilocycles on right.) 282.8—WBAL—1060. :00—Romany Trail. ¢ Reverles. 7:00—Baltimoreans. 272.6—WPG—1110. Sys- 454.3—WEAF New York—860. (N. B. C. Chain.) 8:00a—Melody Hour. -Balladeers. 348.6—~WABC New York—860. (C. B. 8. Chain.) 8:00a—Heroes of the Church. 9:008—] Musicale. 10:00a—Tony's Scrap Book. 10:15a—Helen and w{u 10:50a—Dr. Charles Fleischer. 11:00a—Presbyterian Church. 12:00noon—Jewish Art 12:30—London Broadcast. 394.5—WJZ New York—760. (N. B. C. Chain.) .:Oo—u-vllehdh| - in Voice. 1 ncle Henry's Magasine. 9:15—Islanders. 2 Gibbons, Talk. 10:00—Dean Sisters. 10:15—Pete’s _Stories. 10:30—Lew White. 11:00—Slumber Music. 11:30—Reminiscences. 422.3—gVOR—110. 6:30—Globe Trotter. 6:45—Choir Invisible. 7:45—Ensemble. 30—En! E Orchestra. 10:30—] 3 11:30—The Moonbeams. 379.5—~WGY—1790. 6:00—Same as WEAF. 7:00—Concert. Behind the Microphone BY THR RADIO EDITOR. ing station the announcer never presents a number without first walking twice around the micro- hone. Why? Because if he does ghlt he thinks he is protected against stumbling over any wdrd in his speech. The origin of this superstition, says Radio Digest, has not been established, but the practice is general. Losing poker players, it is pointed out, occasionally get up and walk around their chairs in the bellef that thereby they change their luck. Perhaps the superstition started from the well authenticated folk way. Another m‘ett‘lculglua&. to‘ml;":fl radio su lon uhsmlrr':he final line of a dramatic skit never is read. This taboo is borrowed straight from the All actors know that to speak the “tag line” in re- hearsal would be to bring bad luck, and radio announcers, imi tating their theater colleagues, al- ways garble the final speech when they are practicing. Another taboo affects musicians. They must not, under any circum- stances, hold or place their sheet music so that it is upside down when they first glance at it. If they do, the result will be dis- tinctly sour. Prominent radio broadcasters have their own Pet superstitions. Floyd Gibbens of the mile-a-min- ute voice, always carries a re- pul magic stone, given him by a witch in darkest Africa. “Amos ‘n’ Andy” think bad luck is trail- ing them unless Bill Hay is their m&mmcer. thflup:ucnzr never puts on an PO} program unless he shaves just before he starts. Marcella carries a handkerchief she her- self embroidered. And if any one whistles in a broadcasting station, unless in line of duty, he is anathema, for that is the greatest affront pos- sible to the god;n 2! ‘good fortune. * A BROADCAST station gets its sij 50 far and no farther. How far de'rnds to a certain ex- tent upon the push in watts that g“ ts bel its tranmissions. an iner in power doesn’t mean a corresponding jump in the area covered. Some engineers consider that the extremely good service area, or the amount of territory that can be reliably covered day and night by a 1,000-watt station, is a radius of 9 miles. For a 5,000-watt station this is placed at 20 miles, while with a 50,000-watt trans- mitter, although the power is 10 times ter, area covered is only 60 miles. However, these figures go up somewhat when what is described as “fair service radius” is consid- ered. That is, the station can be received reliably only when con- ditions are good. Then a 1,000- watt station is good for a 450-mile radius, a 5,000-watter a thousand miles and a 50-kilowatter 3,000 miles. Even 80, it can be seen that 50,000 watts do not mean so much in miles as o:ne‘m‘lgge think. TION of the Graham Mec- Cn::mee Scholarship for vocal felds always | h study, instituted by the famous announcer-baritone as a tribute to his former teacher, Mme. Es- Garrigue, is revealed in an announcement that George Farrell, 19-year-old page boy of the Nati Broadcasting Co., is the first recipient. Under the terms of the scholar- ship as outlined by McNamee, Farrell will study indefinitely at Mme, Garrigue’s studio, in the Metropolitan a House, with a view to an eventual concert career. Farrell takes four lessons a week and is continuing his duties as a night page at the N. B. C. studios. * Xk % X THAT Mother Nature often plays havoc with broadcasting is only too well known radio lis- teners everywhere. e degree and character of radio’s depend- ence on season, time of day, weather and geophysical phenom- ena are very little known. Sclen& Y method” of measuring broadcast- ing wave lengths over long periods | under of time. One such experiment has been undertaken by the Bureau of Standards which ha$ develo] an automatic recording apparatus for making regular continuous meas- urements of broadcast transmis- sions. This apparatus is now in operation at its field station at Kensington, Md. The rVa- tions being made there and those of various other laboratories may some day J)lnmb the mysteries of static and fading and the de- pendence of wave propagation on various meteorological and geo- physical phenomena. At the Kensington stasion, ac- cording to the Bureau of Stan- dards, a fixed vertical $mtuned antenna up the signal of a broads station and a super- eterodyne receving set changes its frequency to one in the inter- §irs EEEE Exds mechanism of such a way as to reduce the amplification of the set as input voltages are increased. The pres- | tions ent calibration of the ouput scale covers all but the est, signal peaks, and the reco show the diurnal variations in the intensity of the signal.” AMATEUR TRANSMITTER USES RECEIVER TUBES Powerful Set Can Communicate With All Parts of World and Costs but $45. 1t if E ik 3§§ a 40-watt electric RADIO HAS DETECTIVE English “Black Maria” Looates Unlicensed Receiving Sets. England’s Maria” is an mobile truck radio £ £ mediate range and amplifies it.|mn ‘The output of the receiving set is automatically measured and recorded on moving scaled paper by a commercial potentiometer recorder used in a three-electrode v-;;emm-tube peak-voltmeter cir- cuilt. ‘Thus a curve is obtained show- | the ing the Intermediate-frequency peak-voltage output of the re- ceiving ap) tus at each instant of the lod of the record. Rad- iating and receiving systems must rem; substantially constant and must be checked frequently. “The records,” says the Bureau of Standards, “are calibrated in microvolts per meter, and the rec- ords with this calibration are, therefore, graphs of the variations with time of the field intensity of broad sign: made very small by keeping the receiving set under temperature control and by taking groper care of voltage supplies and tubes. 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