Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 224, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1925 — Page 23

CTUDIO fei mT is reported that station WCAL of Northfield, Minn., is soon- to change its wave length from 360 meters to 336.8 meters. It is almost impossible to keep up with the ever changing wave lengths of the various stations. WOC, Davenport, is back on its old wave of 484 meters. This station has been operating on a wave length of 498 meters for the past haonth. 'Wave lengths at the present iime seem to be very elastic. This week’s offering of the KGO players will be the comedy “Arms and the Man,” which will go to the ahr from the Pacific Coast Station this evening at 10 o'clock Central time. Capt. Donald McMillan, the Arctic explorer, will give a special talk from WCCO this evening at 8 o’clock. SHE Central Wesleyan Cob lege Band and Glee Club will be heard in a special program broadcast through station KfSD, St. Louis, Friday evening, Jan. 30, starting at 8 o’clock. In keeping with the high standard of program presentation given by WEAP, the radio audience tonight will have the opportunity to hear Max Olanoff, American violinist. The Navy will have an opportunity to come to the fore in radio Fnday afternoon, Jan. 30, at 3:10 when a talented trio of songstera from the U. S. 8. Milwaukee, now in port, will offer a varied program of vocal selections. The **u. s. S. Milwaukee Trio” is composed of Jo *eph 8. Howard, first tenor; George Keineging, second tenor, and Billy Williams, baritone. |r> lEPRESENTATIVE reports Irv I from fan * in all parts of the " * country indicate that reception from WSAI, Cincinnati, is better on the new wave length of 325.9 meters, which was recently assigned by the Department of Commerce to both Queen C3ty stations, WSAI and WMH - The new wave takes the place of the old 309 meter wave which WSAI has ben using since the station’s opening in June, 1923. mHE program to be offered by station WOR, Newark, Saturday evening is an excellent one and should command the attention of every listener who is interested in the better class music. This very unusual program is scheduled to start at 7:40 central time, when James W. Dean, New York manager of the Newspaper Enterprise Association, will deliver a short talk on newspaper syndicating, which will be followed by a musical program that promises to be a real treat. It I will include such artists as Cheva-

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lier Fernando Villa, tenor of the Naples Royal San Carlo O pera House; Winifred De Witt Vogelius, contralto; the Manhattan Male Quartet, Helen Steele, pianist, and the Marks Sisters Trio. The next concert by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra will go on the air Wednesday, Feb. 4. It will be broadcast direct from Carnegie -Hall. New York, through WEAF and several of the large eastern stations. At the insistent request of hundreds of listeners to Station KDKA, a third old-fashioned barn dance program will be broadcast this evening. Residents of Llgonier Valley, Pa., will provide the various features of the program, which will include a barn dance, the singing of" oldtime songs, real country fiddling, recitations and mandoline and banjo orchestra music. If yon are a radio enthusiast and find anew station sounding in from a point on the dials hitherto unheard from, you may be receiving from the newly licensed Knox College broadcast station at Chlesburg, 111., which is operating with a wave length of 254 meters an dwith the call letters WEBZ. The new station Is located in the George Davis Science Hall of Knox College. Robert Kyle of Cincinnati, Ohio, chief operator. The set has been constructed to a great extent by the members of the class In radio with great economy. The actual amount expended on the station has been only $175. This is particularly interesting when one considers that most broadcasting sta tions spend from SIO,OOO to $60,000 for their equipment. "Inside the IJnes,” a melodrama by Earl Derr Biggers, will be presented b ythe WGY players Friday evening, January 30. This play also

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will be broadcast by WJZ of New York. The story deals with the British Secret Service. The action is fast and should give the radio listener thrills aplenty. | rpl HE wave length of WTAM, I £ I the Willard Storage Battery -* Company station at Cleveland, has been changed from 390 meters to 364 meters. This was made effective Jan. 17. Country school children in California are to learn the geography of great rivers of the world by radio. Fascinating stories of the Mississippi, Hudson, Missouri, Ohio, Rio Grande, St. Lawrence, Yukon, Amazon, Orinoco, Thames, Rhine, Danube, Seine, Volga, Niger, Nile. Yang Tsi Kiang, Tigris, Euphrates and the Ganges Rivers will be told by the charactsr of the “Old Man of the Rivers.” He will tell his stories to a boy and a girl, before the microphones of KGO, the General Electric Pacific Coast Station, on Monday mornings at 9 a. m., painting word pictures of scenes along the banks of the rivers as the little party drifts along. The boy and the girl will ask him questions as the story progresses. In Emergencies i' -yf ' itPfflril Whenever any scheduled event at station WEAF, in New York, fails, count on Winifred T. Barr to fill the gap. She was a favorite in the early days of broadcasting and still can tickle the ivories from classical music down to jazz, when the occasion requires it. What Radio Means The word “radio” comes from the I.atin ‘‘radius’’ and means in this sense the giving off, or radiating, of energy in every direction. From the broadcasting station energy is sent out In all directions in the form of electro-magnetic waves into the ether an Invisible medium filling all space. Gymnastics Popular A. E. Bagiey, physical Instructor at the Newark Y. W. C. A., knows his daily dozen broadcasts over station WOR are gaining in popularity. He figures he has received 50,900 letters from enthusiastic fans. New Station for WLS Erection of anew 5,000-watt superpower radio broadcasting station to replace the 600-watt equipment now in use is planned by WLS, Chicago. The new station is to be built in the open country to avoid interference* with other Chicago broadcasters.

Squealing Cured by Amateur Bv Ji BA Service ' BROOKLYN. N. Y., Jan. 29. —Edward M. Glazer, radio, amateur, has furnished an Idea to the American Radio Relay League and the bureau of navigation whereby interference attributed to amateur transmission may be avoided. At the same time, he says, amateurs may keep on sending at all hours. ' . The stunt requires the amateur to tune up his own transmitter to highest possible efficiency, then to visit neighboring radio listeners correct their apparatus so that no squealing will be heard.

Seven Stations Excel* WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Seven broadcasting stations whose transmitting waves were measured during December by the Bureau of Standards were 'found to maintain a sufficiently constant frequency to be useful as frequency standards. These stations were WCAP, Washington; WRC, Washington; KDKA, Pittsburgh, Penn.; WBZ, Springfield, Mass.; WGY, Schenectady, N. Y.; WSB, Atlanta, and WWJ, Detroit Mich. Round Corners of Wires A sharp bend in a wire not only offers a good point for energy to be radiated from, but it also changes the resistance of the wire. All wires should be led directly to the proper terminal without bending, if possible. Where it is necessary to bend a wire at right angles, use roundnose pliers or some other tool to make the curve a large one.

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