Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 260, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1925 — Page 18

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GERMAN PAMS RECENTLY TAKEN OVERVALUABLE Experts Believe It Will Result in More Efficient Radio Sets, Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, March 12.—The Schloemilch and Von Bronk reflex patent which was purchased by the Navy Department from the Alien Property Custodian is the basic reflex patent and a license under it will enable manufacturers to produce efficient sets. This is the opinion of experts of the Navy Department. Since the announcement that the Navy Department would license American manufacturers under the radio patents seized from thi Germans during the war, statements have been current that the Schloemilch and Von Bronk patent is practically valueless because of its limited scope. While toe value of the patent has never been thorough ly gone into the Navy, the belicr is that a good set can be produced with it.

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Many Applications In the neighborhood of 150 applications have been received by the Navy from manufacturers in different part of the country for use of the reflex patent. A license under the patent will be granted to ever? manufacturer who meets the conditions set up by the Navy. "We do not attempt to place a valuation on the Von Bronk and Schloemilch patent," says Captain McNeely, chief of the radio division naval bureau of engineering. "Under the decision of the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Navy we are prepared to grant licenses to manufacturers under the radio patents purchased from the alien property custodian. We would not attempt to say that one patent Is any more valuable than another. But we do know, that of the seventy odd radio patents available, the manufacturers have singled out the reflex &s the most desirable. Value Shown "This convinces me that the reflex patent is of particular value. The manufacturers who have applied for licenses under this patent know what they are doing, and they would not want a dead cat." Whether or not the Von Bronk and Schloemilch patent is the basic reflex patent probably may have to be decided in the courts. The question has been gone into by naval radio engineers and they are of the opinion that it is. A'ds in Tuberculosis Core MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.,'March 12. Walter K. Foley of the Veterans Hospital here, says a radio aet will do more to cure tuberculosis than any other apparatus yet devised. "The greatest obstacle to a cure in most cases,” he. says, "is a worried and harassed Btate of mind on the part of the patient. A radio set gives him something to think about and take his mind off his troubles. Nature does the rest.” College Shows Display Farmers visiting the Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan, JCAn., during the Farm and Home week, were shown the best features Os farming a nd housekeeping at first. But they also left with a good impretsion of what radio is. That was part of the show. Seek Range of Stations Government radio men ares going to devote their efforts this year to determining the actual service range of broadcasting stations. Borne estimate the service area of the average station is only about twenty-five miles. Talks on Burbank "How Luther Burbank Works” Will be told ovw the radio March 17, froii WLS by .\ia official biographer, Dr. .3. C. Bean. His second topic on March 24, will be, “What Luther Burbank Has Done for Humanity.”

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During the past week we have been searching ether lanes, listening to programs 0 f various stations from coast to coast and have come to the conclusion that programs offered by the' local station of the Merchants Heat and Light Company, WFBM, is on par with any on the air. No matter what station you tune in, you will have to dial far and wide to find a dance orchestra any better than the Gus Edwards organization that is entertaining radio fans nightly from the local station. It is going to take several weeks before all of the kinks are ironed out, but when this is accomplished, Indianapolis will have a broadcasting station ranking among the best. Reports have been coming in from all parts of the United States and Canada saying the programs have been received with excellent results. There is no doubt a great many local fans would rather listen to distant stations, but there is one thing to remember that distant station that you are listening to is a local station to the fan who lives in the city from where you are receiving the programs. So why look all over the country for dance music and entertainment when we have one of the best orchestras in the country broadcasting from here? If you are listening to the programs of WFBM drop them a card or letter and tell them Just how you like them, and if you have any suggestions to make, tell them. The local station is a wonderful boost for Indianapolis and will mean a great deal to the city in way of advertising. Broadcasting of State basketball games, to be played the last part of the month at the State fairground, will em.ble basketball fans in all parts of the State .to follow the games play by play. The slogan of the statioi is 'Tndian&polis, the Convention Clt/.” Probably there are a few among the millions of radio listeners that enjoy listening to an announcer read off a long string of telegrams. Sunday evening we checked one station and found that in the course of oiie hour twenty-five minutes to announcements concerning the program and the station, and only twenty-eight minutes actually spent in broadcasting musical numbers. It is high time for stations to realize if they expect to command at-

Prepared for Low 'Wave Use Bu USA Bernice RICHMOND HILL. N. Y., March 12. A radio manufacturer here is anticipating the day when low waves will transplant the present broadcast band of high wavelengths. A. H. Grebe, builder of receiving sets, now has a lowreceiver which he expects will be the forerunner of .Topular receivers for future broadcast reception. He bases his belief on the discovery that low waves are more efficient In daytime than at night and surpass higher wavelengths in their general efficiency. Grebe’s new low-wave receiver, in one night’s testing, brought in stations in New Zealand, Spain, Holland, England and Italy.

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tention more time will have to be spent in entertainment. We are well aware of the fact that this is the only way that a station has of knowing programs are h*ng received. But if telegram a are going to be acknowledged, why not make them as short and snappy as possible? / Brunswick and Victor programs emanating from the various stations are beyond a doubt the cream of the week’s programs. It is true that you may lack Interest in some of the numbers or selections, out I think that we all appreciate the superiority of the artists on these programs. A little applause now and then must be expected from this column for the stations that are giving us fast-moving programs, as we have always been in favor of them. Cotton Poor Insulator The wires used to make connections from the storage battery to the receiving set should not be insulated with a cotton covering, as the acid in the battery is likely, to attack the insulation and cause* a short drruit of the battery. Heavy robber cnwered wire with a tarred canvas outside covering is best suited for this purpose.

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Itass station on Cape Horn is furnishing ships with extremely accurate bearings, according to reports to the Navy Department. The Navy has also received appreciative letters regarding its radio compass station on Cape Henry. P rom a position 114 miles southeast of Cape Henry, the S. S. Cockapokset was navigated in a dense fog entirely by radio compass bearings and soundings to Virigina Beach buoy.